National Water Security: Case Study of an Arid Country: Tunisia

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Introduction

Chapter 1. The World Water Issues

1.1- THE GLOBAL WATER BALANCE

1.2- THE WATER BALANCE OF ARID COUNTRIES

1.3- Basic principles, key concepts and instruments

1.4- SCARCITY AND SHORTAGE: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

1.5- WATER SECURITY, A PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL ISSUE

Chapter 2. Fifty years of water policies, 1960-2010
2.1- HYDRAULICS, A LONG TRADITION IN TUNISIA

2.2- THE BROAD WATER POLICIES

2.3- THE MAIN LEVERAGES: PLANNING AND INVESTMENT

2.4- INSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATION AND INTERSECTORAL COORDINATION

2.5- PRIORITY ISSUES AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Chapter 3. The National Water Balance

3.1 THE HYDROLOGICAL SETTING
3.2 THE STATE OF WATER RESOURCES

3.3- THE WATER RESOURCES MOBILIZATION

3.4- THE STATUS OF WATER USES

3.5- WATER RESOURCES AND USES : THE REGIONAL IMBALANCES AND RANSFERS

3.6- THE AQUIFERS OVEREXPLOITATION

3.7- THE ANTHROPOGENIC WATER CYCLE AND THE WHOLE WATER BALANCE

Chapter 4. The holistic water balance: Blue Water, Green Water and Virtual Water

4.1- THE RAIN-FED AGRICULTURE GREEN WATER-EQUIVALENT

4.2- EVALUATION OF THE CROPS PRODUCTION WATER-EQUIVALENT

4.3- WATER BALANCE OF LIVESTOCK PRODUCTIONS

4.4- WATER BALANCE OF FOOD NEEDS

4.5- WATER SECURITY AND FOOD SECURITY

Chapter 5. Managing water demand and unconventional resources

5.1- THE DRINKING-WATER SECTOR

5.2- THE IRRIGATION SECTOR

5.3- REUSE OF TREATED WASTEWATER

5.4- WATER DESALINATION

Chapter 6. Water Security in Tunisia: debated issues

6.1- SECURING THE WATER SUPPLY
6.2- WATER SECURITY AND FOOD SECURITY: A PROSPECTIVE EXERCISE

6.3- HOW TO ACHIEVE GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE?

EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE OF WATER and the LEARNING SOCIETY

Conclusion

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