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Title: | Water for agriculture in the 1990s: another phase in Libya's agricultural development |
Author: | Allan, J.A. |
Book title: | Study day on Libyan economy: Libya II / J.A. Allan, K[en] Atkinson, B[ashir] M. Elwifati |
Year: | 1985 |
Pages: | 1-9 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Libya |
Subjects: | water management irrigation |
Abstract: | The Libyan environment is shown to be favourable for agriculture in its high temperatures but to be seriously deficient in rainfall, surface runoff and renewable groundwater. Modern technologies of water lifting, introduced in the colonial period, made it possible for the first time to exceed the rate of recharge. The rate of water use has depended partly on the technologies available, partly on the capital available for water resource development and partly on government policies. The phases of utilization in the past 50 years are described as well as the responses of governments to economic circumstances and especially to the hydrological situation revealed by the development of Libya's groundwater. The major emphasis of the chapter is on the current policy for the utilization of the groundwater of the southern aquifers. The estimated volume of water resources is discussed in terms of Libya's agricultural production requirements. Bibliogr. |