Conjunctive groundsurface waterwatershed management to secure livelihoods in Marj Sanour, Jenin Gove

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Conjunctive ground/surface water/watershed
management to secure livelihoods in Marj Sanour,
Jenin GovernorateNovember2007-December 2010

• REWARD ProgrammePalestine

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Project Setting

• The Conjunctive Ground/ Surface Water/
  Watershed Management to Secure Livelihoods in
  Marj Sanour, Jenin Governorate Project, is one
  of the demonstration projects within the REWARD
  Programme initiated by the DGCS/ WESCANA Project
  and supported by the IUCN Water and Nature
  Initiative (WANI), funded by DGIS/ The
  Netherlands.
• Up-scaling of methodologies and insights, are
  realized through the sub-networks on different
  water resource systems of REWARDs Regional Water
  Knowledge Network.

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Jenin Governorate

• In WBG, Marj Sanour watershed project is
  implemented in Jenin governorate.
• Situated at the northern part of the WB and in
  the southern part of Jenin Governorate
• Governorate area about 583 km². with 258,321
  inhabitants.
• It is surrounded by 7 villages
• Sanour, Aljarba, Meselieh,Serees
• Seer and Meithaloun .

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Marj Sanour Socio-economic conditions

• affected socially and economically by the basin
• entirely dependent on groundwater for domestic
  use.

26.500 People
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• The climate of the area is characterized by
• a moderate hot and dry summer and by a moderate
  cool and rainy winter
• average long term rainfall of 540 mm/y
• important flooding every 3 to 5 years from
  winter rains and snow.

Environment

• Marj Sanour is a valley
• with good agricultural potential
• surrounded by hills.
• with an altitude range from 350 m up to 365 m
  ASL.

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The flooding situation diagram

• Main Water Flow components
• 1- Rainfall
• 2- Water retention on hill slopes
• 3- Water retention in valley floor
• 4- Surface run off
• 5- Evaporation
• 6- Recharge of the aquifer
• 7- Seepage of flood water to aquifer
• 8- Groundwater abstraction by well/ borehole
• 9- Use of flood water for irrigation
• 10- Groundwater flow to springs well of Qabatia
  and Faria

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Constrains

• Lack of trust and confidence by locals
• Fragmentation of landownership, influencing any
  decision process
• Low efforts to develop
• Decision Support System

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Project beneficiaries

• From the bottom
• To the top

• Communities of Marj area, stakeholders, farmers,
  CBOs, villages, partner NGOs
• Government institutions
• Other mountainous area in the region or in other
  countries

Best Practice for
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Project Donors Project Partners

• Project
• Stakeholders
• Ministry of Agriculture.
• Ministry of Local Government.
• Palestinian Water Authority.
• Environment Quality Affairs.

• IUCN Project Office in Palestine
• Palestinian Hydrology Group
• Union of Agricultural Working Committees

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Project description
effective ecosystem/watershed management and conju
nctive use of ground and surface water

• Project long term goal
• to improve rural livelihoods in watershed areas
• To increase agricultural development areas

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Purpose Application of systemic and
participatory approaches to Integrated Water
Resources Management to other mountainous area in
the MENA region.
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• Double face problem (scarcity and flooding)
  originates
• from the same root
• Bad land-use
• Bad Water management in the watershed

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Summer Season
Scarcity
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Winter season
Flooding
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Long Term Objective Tree
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Recharge scenario diagram
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Main Assumption

• Improving the productivity of agricultural land
• Increasing water availability, by a conjunctive
  use of ground and surface water.

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Key-Pillars Project Strategy
Better management of scarce water and land
resources through a participatory and
stakeholder-led planning process
Stakeholder Dialogue
System Tools
Empowerment
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System Tools

• A more systemic approach
• to collect and analyze information
• to planning and decision-making processes
• Under Empowerment. Creating interest/raising
  awareness. Building Capacity
• Under Stakeholders Multilevel dialogue/,Long
  term concerted action
• Strong coordination of activities and
  decision-making

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Project Purpose
Expected Results
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Issues Raised

• To involve local people from all surrounding
  villages in the planning of the project.
• To facilitate the dialogue between the
  implementing partners and the Key Stakeholders.
• To enhance Steering Committee role.
• To review and verify previous studies

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Progress to Date

• Stakeholder facilitation and establishing an
  effective communication system between all
  stakeholders at different levels.
• Establishing Project Steering and Technical
  Advisory Committees .
• Establishing Community Local Committees.
• Mobilizing watershed communities.
• Promotion for the project idea and increase
  awareness of the communities on watershed
  problems and project design.
• Agreement on establishing a local watershed
  development association concluded

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Progress to date Cont.

• Conducting Draft Hydrological Assesment Study
• Identification of the physical boundaries of the
  watershed that depending on the topographical
  features of the watershed as a surface water
  catchment.
• Determination of the sub- catchment within the
  general watershed and their areas.
• Classifying and mapping the soil cover in the
  watershed area. Physical, and chemical
  properties of soil was determined.
• Indicating the geological, structural, and
  geo-morphological built features of the
  watershed.
• Identifying the different climatologically
  parameters.
• Determining the hydrological parameters (runoff,
  infiltration, evapotranspiration
• Describing the hydro-geological characteristics
  of the different hydro-geological units depending
  on their ability of storing and transmitting
  water.

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Progress to date Cont.

• Conducting Draft Hydrological Assesment Study
  Cont.
• Describing the hydraulic properties of the
  aquifer systems.
• Identifying the groundwater quality and the
  hydro-chemical type, through the analyses of
  different water samples from groundwater wells
  distributed in the area.
• Identifying the water quality of flood water,
• Determining the water resources (groundwater
  wells, cisterns,) and their capacity for
  different purposes (domestic, and agricultural).
  
• Studying the situation of water related
  infrastructure.
• Indicating supply, consumption, and demand for
  the different purposes. Data of these items were
  collected by using PRA, and records of local
  councils.
• Identifying pollution water resources in the
  area.

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Progress to date Cont.

• Socio-Economic Assesment Study almost finalized
• investigating the socio-economic characteristics
  of the Marj Sanour villages (7 villages )
• Studying the main characteristics of the
  agricultural production systems/patterns and
  agricultural holdings in the Marj area
• Investigating the water availability, access and
  quality status, and the attitudes of farmers in
  this regard.
• Giving insight on the losses caused by the Marj
  flooding, and social/economical perceptions vis a
  vis potential solutions/scenarios for the
  flooding problem.

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Progress to date Cont.

• Identification and development of most
  appropriate and effective DSTs techniques
• Building the conceptual Driving
  Forces-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR)
  framework based on the previous studies and data
  collected of Marj sanour watershed.
• (DPSIR framework is presented as a system for
  organizing information that emphasizes
  CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS. It is a
  methodological framework (or guideline) for
  decision makers that summarizes key information
  (indicators) from different sectors. )
• Defining the list of criteria in different
  aspects (Socio-economic, Environment and
  Economic) to be quantified and then used for
  Multi criteria analysis (MCA).
• Start building the DSS interface using Visual
  Studio.Net as a programming language.

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