The Saoura Foggaras: Degradation of Hydraulic System Millennium Case of Beni Abbes, Ouakda, Beni Ounif and Lahmar (Algeria)

In this article, we studied, for the first time, the foggaras of Saoura. Five missions were carried out in the oases of Kerzaz, Lahmar, Boukais, Beni Ounif, Ouakda, and Beni Abbes during the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. The first results showed that there was a difference between the fogga...

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Published inGeoScience Engineering Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 40 - 47
Main Authors Remini, Boualem, Rezoug, Cherrif, Hamoudi, Saaed
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ostrava De Gruyter Open 27.06.2017
Faculty of Minng and Geology, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
Subjects
Degradation
Foggara
Galleries
Hydraulic systems
Missions
Oases
Oasis
Sahara
Saoura
Valley
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Summary:In this article, we studied, for the first time, the foggaras of Saoura. Five missions were carried out in the oases of Kerzaz, Lahmar, Boukais, Beni Ounif, Ouakda, and Beni Abbes during the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. The first results showed that there was a difference between the foggaras of Touat and those of Saoura. The galleries of Saoura are much shorter than those of Touat and Gourara. On the contrary, the distribution of water from the Touat and Gourara foggaras is carried out per unit volume, whereas from the Saoura foggaras per unit time. The foggaras we visited are practically in a degraded condition. The contribution of modern technology (pumps and wells) in the oases of Saoura is the principal cause of the decline of the hydraulic system millennium.
ISSN:1802-5420
1802-5420
DOI:10.1515/gse-2017-0010