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Rome-Italy 11-22 Nov. 2002
Table of contents
• 1- Background
• 2- Some managerial activities for drought
mitigation
• 3- A case study for monitoring flood
management
• 4- Outcome of monitoring
• 5- Conclusion
1- Background
• 1-1- Drought and Desertification
• 1-2- Distribution of Dry lands
• 1-3- Perspectives
• 1-4- Sequence of Drought Impacts
• 1-5- Water resources
• 1-6- Comparison of water resources
1-1-Drought and Desertification
• Meteorological
• Hydrological
• Agricultural and
• Socio-economic
Hydrological Drought
• 3-2-Scientific Justification
• 3-3-Feasibility Study
3-A Case Study for Monitoring flood
Management
• Flood management has been adapted in drylands
of Iran for many centuries.This easy to use and
applicable approach could be carried out in at
least 14 million hectare of lands in Iran to
exchange disturbance of floods to profitable
water and yield production (Kousar, 1374,1380).
• The method, now, has been supported to be
useful for helping 800 million hungry men in the
world (FAO).
3-A Case Study for Monitoring flood
Management(cont.)
• Assessment of cultivated vast fields, located in
uplands of the ghanat in Khorasan province,
shows that our grand fathers managed floods to
store the god's blessing in order to cope with
disaster of drought and also desertification.
• In this way, two functions of flood management
merged with each other. In other words,
spreading flood in uplands, not only irrigate the
cultivated fields but also store flood water to feed
the underground aquifers (Kousar, 1372).
3-1- Advantages of flood Spreading
technique
• Flood spreading in an alluvial fan, is a
multipurpose technique that is also less
costly and easy to implement in the field.
• 3-1-1-Goals:
-To control floods
-To store flood water in aquifers for efficient
use
3-1- Advantages of flood Spreading
technique(cont.)
• 3-1-2-Objectives:
• -To Change unproductive alluvial fans to ranges
forests and agricultural forms
• -To stabilize the origin of sand dune movement
• -To eliminate man-made desertification
• -To enhance agricultural based employment
- To improve environmental condition
-To encourage public participation
3-2- Scientific Justification
• In Iran, there is 43 million hectare of lands,
1/4 of the country surface, suitable for
storage of water in underground dams, but
interestingly, only 14 million-hectare are
sufficient for controlling and storing 50-
billion cubic meters of floodwater.
3-3-Feasibility Study
To find best and suitable places for establishment of
the flood spreading project the following
disciplines should be taken into account:
• Meteorological and ecological studies
• Watershed assays with its general studies
• Pedology of the location
• Hydrology
• Socio-economic studies
• Geomorphology
• -Hydrogeology
4-Outcome of Monitoring
• Monitoring of ten stations,totally covering a
land area of about 20 million-hectare, has
shown: