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Nile Delta Biography: Challenges and Opportunities

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The Nile Delta

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 55))

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The Nile Delta and its coastal zone are populated regions in Egypt and contain a variety of development activities. Those human activities which provide income and source of life to many also generate constraints to Nile Delta region. This introductory chapter presents a brief biography of the Nile Delta and presents a comprehensive and concise summary of recent research related to challenges in Nile Delta regions. In addition, possible opportunities are included. Five main themes of research, namely, land use challenge, coastal erosion, potential impacts of sea level rise (SLR), water quality deterioration, and seawater intrusion, are reviewed. Also, the chapter summarizes some suggested/proposed and/or implemented adaptation and/or mitigation acts for each challenge. The article concluded that further integrated research based on solid reliable field databases is urgently needed.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the International Water Technology Association for the permission of presenting some materials of the El-Adawy et al. [50] paper that was presented at the 18th International Water Technology Conference, March 12–14, 2015, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Thanks are also due to Eng. Mohamed El-Tarabily for his contribution in this chapter by writing Sect. 2. Thanks are extended to Prof. Badr Mabrouk for his permission to re-publish Table 1.

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  1. Department of Water and Water Structure Engineering, from Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Abdelazim M. Negm

  2. Civil Engineering Research Center, Universidad Privada Boliviana, Cochabamba, Bolivia

    Oliver Saavedra

  3. Environmental Engineering Department, School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, E-JUST, Alexandria, Egypt

    Abdelazim M. Negm & Ahmed El-Adawy

  4. Faculty of Engineering, Irrigation and Hydraulics Department, Mansoura University, 60 Elgomhoria Street, Mansoura, 35516, Egypt

    Ahmed El-Adawy

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Negm, A.M., Saavedra, O., El-Adawy, A. (2016). Nile Delta Biography: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Negm, A. (eds) The Nile Delta. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2016_62

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