Salem Bouri

University of Sfax | US · Department of Earth Sciences

The southern Gabès aquifer in southeastern Tunisia faces significant stress due to unsustain-able groundwater extraction. This study employs a SEAWAT model to evaluate groundwater losses, salinization mechanisms, and the interaction between the confined aquifer and the Mediterranean Sea. The model, incorporating well pumping rates, regional freshwa...

Geophysical techniques such as gravity, magnetic and seismic are perfect tools for detecting subsurface structures of local, regional as well as of global scales. In fact, the Mahdia aquifer system (Eastern Tunisia, Mediterranean basin) is economically important with the over exploitation of its shallow aquifers and the marine intrusion. Thus, diff...

Monitoring groundwater quality (GWQ) is vital for water sustainability, mainly in arid to semi-arid regions with intense agriculture and inadequate irrigation management systems. It was, closely, linked to groundwater hydrochemistry (GWH). The present work aims to identify factors controlling this in the Chougafiya shallow aquifer (Central Tunisia)...

The management of surface water in basins has become of the utmost importance, especially given the expected changes in climate and land use. Therefore, the current work aimed to aid the management of the Khazir River basin by estimating sediment yield and surface runoff using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) at the hydrological response u...

In arid areas in southern Gabes (SE Tunisia) with low precipitation and scarce surface water resources, the exploitation of groundwater remains the only way to meet the various needs of development. Indeed, with economic development, these water resources are becoming increasingly degraded and exploited. The identification of appropriate zones for...

The climate changes affect the hydrological cycle and the flow systems of waterways, which in turn alter the volume of water available resources locally, regionally, and globally at various levels. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the climatic changes on the availability of surface water resources in the basins of the Tigris, Great Zab, an...

The current study deals with how floods affect the social and economic lives of villagers in the lower basin of the Khazir River (northern Iraq), where the villages Kazkan, Tal al-Laban, and Wardak are located within active floodplains close to the riverbed. The aim of this paper is to perform both spatial and temporal analysis of floods affecting...

Flood damage assessment is considered the essential tool for evaluating risk to civil and agricultural systems in land use planning. The validity of the studies’ outcome depends on the availability of data and their spatial distribution. The present study came to compute flood susceptibility maps utilizing two application models: (i) the frequency...

Groundwater resources in arid and semi-arid regions are of limited availability and variable quality, which impacts the agricultural development. Indeed, the sustainable use of water resources for agricultural, domestic and industrial purposes is confronted with serious challenges in the context of climate change and rapid population growth. In thi...

In maize fields, few studies have been conducted to identify the temporal trend of soil salinity and formulate optimal irrigation plans under climate change. Therefore, the main goals of this study were to predict changes in soil salinity over 2022-2050 and to formulate an optimal supplemental irrigation plan preventing soil salinity in a South Afr...

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contamination of groundwater with nitrate in Regueb basin

forcasting of the salinity on short term: in Regueb basin

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Surface waters are subject to high anthropogenic pressures particularly where urban wastewaters are discharged into the wadis.. The objective of this study is to evaluate the surface water quality of the Beni Mtir watershed based on the Water Quality Index (WQI). Based on the physico-chemical data, several groups of drinking and irrigation water qu...

In this chapter, soil-water models and their contribution to develop soil conservation measures are reviewed. The chapter is structured in three sections. First, an overview of soil moisture is presented. Then, soil-water modeling is outlined. Finally, examples of soil conservation measures and contribution of soil-water modeling to the design of t...

Groundwater (GW) studies have been conducted worldwide with regard to several pressures , including climate change, seawater intrusion, and water overexploitation. GW quality is a very important sector for several countries in the world, in particular for Tunisia. The shallow coastal aquifer of Sfax (located in Tunisia) was found to be under the co...

Groundwater resources in arid and semi-arid environments are of limited availability and variable quality, impacting hence their agricultural development. In this work, an attempt to provide a groundwater management context focusing on irrigation groundwater sustainability and surveys was conducted in Kebili’s complex terminal aquifer. The analytic...

Groundwater is a vital natural resource required to satisfy the domestic and agricultural needs. In general, human health is linked to the quality of the consumed water. For instance, long-term exposure to high nitrate levels in groundwater may cause problems. Hence, the present study was conducted to assess the nitrate contamination of groundwater...

In the El Hezma‐El Hmila region (Southeastern Tunisia), the Mio‐Plio‐quaternary aquifer is subject to excessive extraction of groundwater, leading to drops in potentiometric surfaces and a subsequent degradation of groundwater quality. Therefore, surveys have been conducted to provide some basic information on groundwater suitability for agricultur...

Potential recharge estimation becomes a necessity for the groundwater resource management. Nevertheless, many difficulties appear in the infiltration fraction determination. In arid and semi-arid regions, groundwater represents the main sources for sectors development (industrial, agriculture, domestic). The Medenine shallow aquifer (Southeastern T...

Significant research has been conducted on the effects of soil salinity issue on agricultural productivity. However, limited consideration has been given to its critical effects on soil biogeochemistry (e.g., soil microorganisms, soil organic carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions), land desertification, and biodiversity loss. This article is ba...

The groundwater vulnerability evaluation against pollution becomes an effective tool for sensible resource management and land use planning. These resources are threatened by the emanating from anthropogenic activities and the intensive fertilizer applications in agricultural sector. Over time, groundwater abstraction exceeds aquifer recharge, lead...

The humans’ activities development exerts increasing constraints on groundwater resources in arid and semi-arid regions. The Djeffara-Medenine shallow aquifer (Southeastern Tunisia), subject of this study, is threatened by a groundwater overexploitation. Thus, the search of water resource management has become a necessity. This study aims to develo...

Water quality assessment is a necessity for groundwater resource management, especially in arid regions. Nevertheless, many difficulties appear in choosing the most appropriate models for the evaluation of water suitability. The present study reports the groundwater (GW) suitability for irrigation purposes in Rjim Maatoug, Southwestern Tunisia, whe...

In the coastal areas, under some critical conditions such as coastal erosion (which costs roughly $500 million per year for coastal property loss) and coastal flooding (floods comprise 46% of all disaster events between 1998 and 2012), there is a huge need of integrated coastal agroecosystem management in order to ensure a satisfied agricultural pr...

The scientific program was organized by the conference committee chaired by Prof.Younes Hamed from Gafsa University-Tunisia & Prof. Riheb Hadji from Sétif 1 University-Algeria. The scientific committee of the wreiana2021 is composed of an international panel of scientists and experts who reviewed more than 280 contribuations in a double-blind evalu...

Groundwater in semiarid regions is of extreme importance due to limited water resources and increasing population demand. Hence, a better knowledge of aquifer potentialities is required for better management of this precious resource. This study aims to assess the groundwater potential map (GPM) by both statistical methods and geographical informat...

With rapid urbanization and industrial development, waste discharges in west central Tunisia have multiplied. The focus here is on the waste manifestation from the National Company of Cellulose and Alfa Paper (SNCPA), which has been considered as a serious pollutant affecting natural resources as surface and groundwaters, human health and hygiene i...

Using an adaptive Mamdani fuzzy inference system model (MFSIM), the purpose of this paper is mainly to assess and rank the assessment and ranking of water quality for irrigation occurring in the Hammamet-Nabeul (Tunisia) shallow aquifer. This aquifer is under Mediterranean climate conditions and affected by intensive and irrational agricultural act...

The suitability of groundwater for drinking and irrigation purposes is potentially disturbed by a variety of factors, including climate change, salinization and risky agricultural practices. The region of Kebilli (Southwestern Tunisia) is marked by an arid climatic condition with a Saharan tendency. However, the spatial partition of the stress fact...

Arid lands face a variety of environmental challenges, principally water scarcity (with rainfall typically <200 mm year⁻¹) and land degradation (it is estimated that around 30% arid lands are degraded globally). Sustainable agricultural intensification is a fundamental strategy to respond to many challenges in arid lands, where the impacts of clima...

The concept of groundwater vulnerability is a useful tool for environmental planning and decision-making. Added to overexploitation, the increasing agricultural activities have affected water resources. The groundwater contamination is becoming an important issue, especially in coastal areas also threatened by seawater intrusion. Indeed, several me...

Water resources become more and more threatened by the increasing request related to the population growth, especially in agricultural regions. This article focused on the design of a geo-model monitoring network controlling groundwater quality in the fast-growing agricultural area of Souassi, Central eastern Tunisia. The studied area is known for...

Impacts of climate change on irrigation water requirement of date palms under future salinity trend in costal aquifer of Tunisian oasis Article type Research Paper Abstract The aquifers salinity problem, which aggravated by climate change, may increase irrigation water requirement of crops. Many studies ignore salinity problem while quantifying the...

Climate change may affect soil fertility because it can alter various soil physicochemical characteristics through different mechanisms. Currently, a better understanding of its effect on soil physicochemical characteristics is required for sustainable soil management. Therefore, the main purposes of this study were to assess the effect of climate...

Understanding the controlling factor of groundwater quality could certainly enhance the promotion of the sustainable development of groundwater resources. In fact, during the last decades, the coastal aquifer of Mahdia–Ksour Essef that belongs to the semi-arid region of Tunisia has been marked by an increase of groundwater extraction for irrigation...

The use of geothermal energy in Tunisia is limited to its instant use because of the low enthalpy resources, especially in the southern part of the country. The Djerid Basin has remarkable geothermal resources with low to moderate temperatures that have been used only for irrigation of oases and heating greenhouses. In order to evaluate the geother...

In this study, HYDRUS-1D model was coupled with geographic information system (GIS) for evaluating the effects of climate changes on soil salinization. The coupled HYDRUS-1D–GIS system was applied in a coastal region (Gabes Oasis) for evaluating the effects of various climate change scenarios on temporal change in soil electrical conductivity (EC)...

In recent years, several arid lands have faced the major challenge of increasing risk of soil salinity caused by improper irrigation and drainage practices. Evaluating the relationship between soil salinity, drainage, and irrigation is therefore essential for understanding how to sustain the use of salinized soils in these lands. In this study, sub...

When saline water is used to irrigate crops in arid environments, appropriate irrigation management should be applied to avoid negatively impacting soil characteristics. In this study, the effects of irrigating date palms with saline water (2.24 g l⁻¹) on soil physicochemical characteristics such as the electrical conductivity (ECe), the pH of the...

The Djeffara of Medenine coastal aquifer (Southeastern Tunisia) is threatened by the seawater intrusion (SWI). This region is characterized by a notable increase in population and spreading of agricultural activities (increasing of groundwater pumping), which makes it under tremendous stress of SWI. So, the groundwater quality degradation is caused...

Dramatic increase of population in the Hajeb Layoun City and its surrounding areas (Sbeitla, Jelma) has led to a higher consumption of water for both domestic and irrigation demands. The various uses of these resources lead to the degradation of their quality and quantity. Therefore, water quality issues and its management options need to be given...

The rising increase in groundwater abstraction to serve the industrial sector and to fulfill the agricultural and domestic needs, coupled with severe drought periods during the past decades, leads to a growing deficit of water. The drawdown of piezometric levels and progressing degradation of water quality are the main consequences of such intensiv...

The Mahdia-Ksour Essef aquifer, case of this study, is situated in the Central east of the Tunisian Sahel. Water resources are threatened either by salinization process or by the overexploitation. Based on these statements, waters preservation of Mahdi-Ksour Essef aquiferseemed to be highly important. In order to assess the water vulnerability to p...

Various methods and numerical models have been used for quality evaluation in groundwater. In this way, hybrid method "PCA-kriging" is proposed to determine of mineralisation sources in Mahdia-Ksour Essef phreatic coastal aquifer. The study area lies in the semi-arid region of Tunisia. Moreover, during last decades, the aquifer is characterised by...

Shallow groundwater is one of the main water resources in the arid and semi-arid regions. However, it is threatened by not only the reduced rainfall and recharge capacity, but also the water table drawdown and seawater intrusion. Such factors could cause a deterioration of the water quality and consequently the loss of a valuable hydraulic resource...

The water resources are exhausted by the increasing demand related to the population growth. They are also affected by climate circumstances, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. These areas are already undergoing noticeable shortages and low annual precipitation rate. This paper presents a numerical model of the Sfax shallow aquifer system th...

With the progressive evolution of industrial sector, agricultural, urbanization, population and drinking water supply, the water demand continuously increases which necessitates the planning of groundwater recharge particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. This paper gives a comprehensive review of various recharges studies in the North Gafsa bas...

In this paper, a study on the performance of surface irrigation of date palms in a Tunisian arid area (Douz oasis) is presented. The study is conducted in 16 plots with various sizes and soil textures over a 4-year period (2012–2015). In the first step, an assessment of total water requirements of the date palms is carried out. Then, the surface ir...

In coastal regions, groundwater serves as a major source used for the human activities satisfaction. Almost, 44% of the world’s population live within 150 km of the coast line (UN Atlas 2010; Reed 2010). Due to a drastic population growth, and an industrial, economic and agricultural sectors development, the groundwater resources were almost threat...

Worldwide, groundwater resources have been considered as the main sources of drinking, domestic uses, industrial and agriculture water demands, especially in arid and semiarid regions. Accordingly, the monitoring of the groundwater quality based on different tools and methods becomes a necessity. The aim of this study was to apply several approache...

During the last decades, many challenging factors such as the arid climatic, the demographic growth and the socioeconomic transformations have imposed the use of adaptive strategies to face the over-increasing need to water resources. Groundwater drawdown is mainly caused by irrigation activity in Hajeb Layoun-Jelma (central of Tunisia). This study...

In arid oases, soil salinity and a rise in shallow groundwater are serious threats to long-term sustainability of irrigated agriculture. Understanding the impacts of irrigation practices on soil salinity and shallow groundwater dynamics is critical for improving soil conditions and water efficiency. In this study, the impacts of excessive irrigatio...

The study region comprises the Sidi Bouzid shallow aquifer, which is located in the western part of Central Tunisia. It is mainly occupied by agricultural land with intensive use of chemical fertilizers especially nitrates. For this reason, nitrate measurement was performed in 38 water samples to evaluate and calibrate the obtained models. Several...