Assessment of the Impact of Dams on River Regimes, Sediment Transports to the Sea, and Coastal Changes

Gil Mahe (1) , Oula Amrouni (2) , Thouraya Ben Moussa (2) , Laurent Dezileau (3) , Rajae El Aoula (4) , Hamadi Habaieb (5) , Abderraouf Hzami (2) , Ilias Kacimi (4) , Abderrahmane Khedimallah (6) , Fatma Kotti (7) , Mohamed Meddi (6) , Nadia Mhammdi (4) , Saadi Abdeljaouad (8)

1 HSM - Hydrosciences Montpellier
2 INSTM - Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer [Salammbô]
3 Géosciences Montpellier
4 UM5 - Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal]
5 INRGREF - Institut National de Recherche en Génie Rural Eaux et Forêts
6 Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Hydraulique [Blida, Algérie]
7 INAT - Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie
8 UTM - Université de Tunis El Manar

A great number of rivers of North Africa are equipped with many dams for multiple purposes, mainly potable water, irrigation and energy production. In most of the countries—Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, the storage capacity exceeds the runoff capacity, which means that water is stored several times in a row during its course to the sea.

Mots clés: Rivers; North Africa; Dams; Sands; Coastal morphological changes Sands; Coastal morphological changes; Sediment transport

Domaines: Milieux et Changements globaux; Géographie

Gil Mahe, Oula Amrouni, Thouraya Ben Moussa, Laurent Dezileau, Rajae El Aoula, et al.. Assessment of the Impact of Dams on River Regimes, Sediment Transports to the Sea, and Coastal Changes. Kallel A.; Ksibi M.; Ben Dhia H.; Khélifi N. Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions. EMCEI, Springer, pp.31-32, 2018, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_12⟩. ⟨hal-01861450⟩