GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT OF BRACKISH WATER DESALINATION IN THE WEST BANK, PALESTINE
| dc.contributor.author | Walaa Abu Saa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-09T19:47:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-06-09T19:47:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-09-20 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: Brackish water is one of the sources of water in Palestine. Due to the scarcity of fresh water in the West Bank, solutions must be found to make use of desalinated water for drinking water and agricultural use. Aim: The main objective of this research is to study the availability of small and affordable water desalination and purification systems in the West Bank. Strategies and policies that guide the use of desalinated water were assessed in this research, also the degree of success of this use in the West Bank. Methodology: The Governance Assessment Tool (GAT), is a framework that is used and elaborated in this thesis to assess the use of desalinated water. The developed governance assessment tool is made up of a ‘matrix’ like model consisting of five elements (actors and networks, goal ambitions and perceptions of the problem, strategies and instruments, resources and organization and levels and scales) and four criteria (flexibility, coherence, extent and intensity) Results: The search results are summarized as follows: • The governance system in terms of actors, it's highly supportive. Since most of actors are involved and the interaction between actors are stable and there is trust. It is simple to include new actors and some actors are pressuring to improve the desalination sector. • The governance system is restrictive in terms of problem perspectives and goal ambitions, especially there is aspects of the goals must be reassessed and some changes to the current policy must be done to achieve the goal. • The governance system in terms of strategies and instruments, it's moderate to supportive. All instruments are used but there are some conflicts between them. There is chance to use and combine between various instruments as it's stipulated in law. • The governance system is moderate in terms of responsibilities and resources, the responsibilities are clearly defined but some resources are missing. Also actors enhance collaboration within and across foundation. And the responsibilities can aggregation assigned but there is a Lack of resources to comply with the responsibilities. • The governance system is supportive in terms of level and scale, all levels are involved in the use project but the levels deem little multi-level cases exist and recognize their dependence. It is possible to move up and down levels in some cases. Also most levels are doing to make behavioral change or management reform. Conclusion: The governance system qualities assessment of desalination of brackish water in West Bank showed that in terms of flexibility and extent, the context of governance is supportive. And in terms of intensity and coherence, it's moderately supportive. Keywords: Brackish Water; Desalination water; Governance Assessment Tool (GAT); Water Governance; Water Scarcity. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11888/19008 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.supervisor | Dr. Abdel Fattah Hasan | |
| dc.title | GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT OF BRACKISH WATER DESALINATION IN THE WEST BANK, PALESTINE | |
| dc.type | Thesis |