Title: MObile app for optimizing and promoting Rain WATER harvesting in semi-arid regions: collecting rain for a self-sustaining and self-reliant Palestinian water supply (MORWater)
Partners: ANU, BZU, WU, NARC, HEC, PHG
Team:
Summary:
The MORWater project is running efficiently and as it was planned for in the project proposal. Activities performed during the reporting period are as follows:
- Developing the water poverty (WP) and rainwater harvesting suitability (RWHS) maps for both domestic and agricultural uses.
- Assessing the linkage/interaction between WP and RWHS maps.
- Listing of on-ground RWH techniques for both domestic and agricultural uses.
- Perform a literature review on RWH techniques used in arid and semi-arid zones worldwide.
- Based on 3 and 4 selecting suitable RWH techniques for Palestine based on expert knowledge and local conditions and studying the suitability of each of them resulting in a suitability map per RWH technique for the West Bank.
- Assessment of the potential social and environmental impacts of the proposed RWH techniques (catchment level). The socio economic-environmental study that is conducting in the Natuv catchment including the Spring water hydrochemistry.
- Integrating the socio-economic indicators in addition to the developed biophysical indicators.