Orontes river basin eAtlas
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Remarquable ressource sur l’aménagement du bassin de l’Oronte et sa mise en valeur agricole et industrielle, à travers l’histoire récente, avec un bilan du conflit syrien arrêté en 2014 : déplacement de population, dégradation de la situation sanitaire pour cause de non-accès à l’eau potable, baisse de la production agricole, avec des cartes précises et fines.
This e-Atlas aims to provide a comprehensive overview of water resources, infrastructures, usages and management issues in the Orontes River basin. It is developed within a research program led by the Graduate Institute of International and development Studies with the support of the Global Program Water Initiatives of the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency as part of an overall project on Water Security in the Middle East. The program aims to analyze water management challenges and perspectives and to establish a multidisciplinary scientific and technical network on water management in the Orontes River basin including Lebanese, Syrian and Turkish organizations. It is conducted in collaboration with the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute, the Hydrogeology Center of the University of Neuchâtel, the Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems of the Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of University of Lausanne, the “Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée”, Lyon.