Development of a Water Master Plan for Qalqiliya Governorate (2020-2040)
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2020
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Mohammad emad khaled
Mohammad Khaled naji
Majd ma’moon alali
Muthana tayseer ghanem
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Qalqiliya Governorate is located Northwest West Bank in Palestine. The population of Qalqiliya Governorate was about 111,425 people according Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) for the year 2017 as shown in Table 9 in the appendix.
As Qalqiliya population grows, the demand for water will increase. In addition, Climate change, will also lead to greater pressures on the availability of water resources. This project aims to finding the future water demand and calculate the gap between future water demand plan a new water resources. Also having a plan to transport water from the source to the consumer by tanker lines.
To develop this Master plan, the following steps were followed:
1. Data collection regarding water services in Qalqiliya Governorate.
2. Analysis of present water demand.
3. Create the concept of clusters in the Governorate.
4. Estimation of future water demand.
5. Estimation of future water gap.
6. Investigate potential future water resources.
7. Develop the needed infrastructure to convey water from proposed water resources to different clusters.