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  17 Mar 2022 – Webinar

  IAH Events

  Problems and solutions with Aquifer Storage Recovery in Lebanon

  GROUNDWATER Mediterranean and Semi-Arid Regions A series of webinars about the current challenges of groundwater management. Aquifer Storage Recovery (ASR) is a great water management tool of the Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) family, to overcome water shortage by storing water in the underground during times of plenty, and pumping it back in periods of water shortage or high demand. ASR is being applied all over the world at different scales, using different infiltration waters and aquifers with diverging geochemical reactivity and ambient groundwater quality. In Lebanon, however, ASR is still in the phase of troublesome pilot studies. This webinar reviews the general advantages and problems of ASR application. Then it discusses the additional problems in Lebanon, e.g. those associated with karstified limestone and capital investment. Finally, it presents some simple tools to estimate the risk of failure, solutions to various problems, and options for Lebanon. The given insights and tools may help to select the best ASR sites or MAR technology, raise the recovery efficiency and prevent the system to fail. In countries, where ASR is in the first try-out phase like Lebanon, such failure should be prevented by all means, because it would have detrimental effects on future development of these indispensable systems.

  Price: Free

  Organised by International Association of Hydrogeologists- MENA, International Association of Hydrogeologists- Lebanon Chapter, Department of Geology- American University of Beirut.

   https://aub.webex.com/aub/j.php?MTID=m89c15ff4d3f32679e5b947928cc8e3fb     lebanoniah@gmail.com