Management of Water Resources in Iraq: Perspectives and Prognoses
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In this article, the government should take measures to have a strategic water management vision, including regional cooperation and coordination, research and development, improving agriculture and sanitation sector as well as public awareness program.About:
This article is published in Engineering.The article was published on 2013-08-06 and is currently open access. It has received 194 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sanitation & Water scarcity.read more
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Stream-flow forecasting using extreme learning machines: a case study in a semi-arid region in Iraq
Zaher Mundher Yaseen,Othman Jaafar,Ravinesh C. Deo,Ozgur Kisi,Jan Adamowski,John Quilty,Ahmed El-Shafie +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of a relatively new data-driven method, namely the extreme learning machine (ELM) method, was explored for forecasting monthly stream-flow discharge rates in the Tigris River, Iraq.
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Crop Water Requirements and Irrigation Schedules for Some Major Crops in Southern Iraq
TL;DR: The climate of Iraq is of the subtropical semi-dry type; however, the country was rich in water resources until a few decades ago as mentioned in this paper, and the construction of many dams on the Tigris and...
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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on NO2, O3, PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations and assessing air quality changes in Baghdad, Iraq
TL;DR: The results of NO2 tropospheric column extracted from the Sentinel-5P satellite shown the NO2 emissions reduced up to 35 to 40% across Iraq, due to lockdown measures, between January and July 2020, especially across the major cities such as Baghdad, Basra and Erbil.
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Sand and dust storm events in Iraq
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed the main causes in the development of sand and dust storms, in Iraq, and the most effective reasons are the haphazard driving and military operations, especially in the Iraqi Southern Desert.
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Development and Evaluation of a Water Quality Index for the Iraqi Rivers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used principal component analysis (PCA) and modified Delphi method to select the most influential water quality parameters and their relative weights, and the quality curves of selected parameters were drawn to calculate the WQI scores basing on the water quality standards.
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