1. Presentation of Jordan Case Study Second Management Board Meeting
Optimization   for Sustainable Water Resources Management (OPTIMA)
Presentation of Jordan Case Study
Zarqa River Basin
to the
Second Management Board Meeting
November 11-12, 2005
Casablanca
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Zarqa River Basin
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Zarqa River
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Zarqa River
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6. 1. Work progress with Model applications
The overall objectives of the Jordan case study (Zarqa River Basin) are to implement, test, develop, evaluate, and to exploit an innovation approach to water resources management, in close cooperation with local and regional stakeholders which is intended to increase efficiencies through applying the following modeling procedures:
A. Water Resources Model (WRM).
B. Rainfall-Runoff Model (RRM)
C. Land Use Change Model
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7. 1.1. Contribution to Requirements and Constraints Analysis, WP 01
Stakeholders with an interest in sustainable water management have been identified.
The issue database, obtained on the base of the stakeholders answers to the issue questionnaire, including, physical conditions, water management, water demand, and water supply.
Analysis of the water issues.
Data requirements were compiled and identified.
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A. Water Resources Model (WRM)
The Water Resources Model is a daily water budget.
Interacting objects
River Basin Object
Scenarios
Interacting objects of the Zarqa River basin were identified based on Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) which is completely prepared in GIS lab at the University of Jordan.
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B. Rainfall-Runoff Model (RRM)
The RRM rainfall-runoff model is a dynamic basin scale water budget model that operates at a daily time step. It is designed for estimating sub-catchments outflow as a function of basin characteristics including, primarily, elevation distribution, land cover and land use, and rainfall and temperature as dynamic inputs.
Basin Characteristics were identified using the prepared Digital Elevation Model.
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11. Watershed delineation with Digital Elevation Model, DEM.
Fifteen Digital Topographic maps of 1:50,000 were used to get full coverage of the study area.
Contour lines were digitized from the Digital Topographic maps using ArcView GIS.
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12. Watershed delineation with Digital Elevation Model, DEM.
TIN was created, and DEM with resolution of 30 m was derived using ArcView GIS.
The software Watershed Modeling System
(WMS) can directly use DEM for watershed characterization and delineation.
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Sample of the Digitized Contour
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Contour digitizing
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Merging contours
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Derived Contour from 1:50,000 Digital Topographic maps
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Clipping of contours
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Convert contour to TIN
TIN
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Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with 30 m Resolution
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Convert TIN to DEM
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Convert TIN to DEM
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Flow direction and accumulation was determined with Topographic Parameterization Program (TOPAZ).
Watershed outlet of Zerqa River was defined on downstream between its confluent with Jordan River.
Interior outlets were defined for creating watershed sub-basins.
Drainage basins were defined from defined streams. Zerqa Basin of 4120 km2 in area was subdivided into 6-major sub-basins considering Topographic, rainfall variation, and urban distribution.
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Zarqa River
Basin Outlet on to the Jordan River
Zarqa River
Jordan River
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Zarqa River Drainage
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Zarqa River Drainage/ Main Wadis
Wadi Ajib
Wadi Karum
Wadi Zaatari
Zarqa River
Wadi Dhleil
Wadi Rumeimin
Seil Amman-Zarqa
Wadi Rukban
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Watershed delineation with DEM
Basin Outlet on to the Jordan River
Zarqa River
Area = 4120 km2
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The Sub-Basins
SB. 1: Upper Dhleil
SB. 4: Jerash
SB. 5: Suileh/ ketteh
Basin Outlet
SB. 6: Al-Salt
SB. 3: Amman
SB. 2: Lower Dhleil
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Hydrologic sub-basin parameters were computed
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6-Sub-Catchments are used to build WRM. 1 4 6 5 2 3
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32. 1.2. Contribution to Analytical tools WP 03
Data requirements to implement the modelling were compiled and Identified. This is based on the finding of WP 01
1.3. Contribution to Remote Sensing and GIS Data ,WP 05
Materials of the Remote Sensing and GIS Data were prepared and sent to NCRS
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WRM Schematic of Zarqa Basin, Flow Direction
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Nodes, Reaches Identification
Jerash Catch.
Upper Dhuleil Catch.
Agri. Demand
Agri. Supply
Agri. Demand
Agri. Supply
Down-stream Agri. demand
Dom.
Demand
Dom.
Supply
Dom.
Demand
Dom.
Supply
Ind.
Supply
Ind.
Demand
Ind.
Demand
Ind.
Supply
Treatment Plant
Runoff Gage
King Talal Dam
Outlet
diversion
Agri
Demand
Agri. Supply
Agri. Supply
Agri
Demand
Dom.
Supply
Agri
Demand
Agri. Supply
Dom.
Demand
Dom.
Demand
Dom.
Supply
Al Salt Catch.
Dom.
Supply
Ind.
Demand
Ind.
Supply
Ind.
Demand
Dom.
Demand
Suileh/ ketteh Catch.
Dom.
Supply
Lower Dhuleil Catch.
Ind.
Supply
Ind.
Demand
Ind.
Supply
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Amman Catch.

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WRM Schematic of Zarqa Basin, Flow Direction
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Next Steps
Rainfall data is available. But, Due to Basin Rainfall Variability , it is under identification to compute average daily Basin Rainfall.
Nine - rain gages out of 33 have selected to build Thiessen network. These are Jerash (AL0004), Zarqa (AL0015), Suweileh (AL0017), Amman Hussein Collage (AL0022), Rumeimin (AL0028), Qasr el Hallabat (AL0049), Um el Jimal (AL0059), Wadi Es- Sir (AL 0057), and Um el Quttein (F0001). The selected rain gages cover the entire watershed .
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Thiessen Network
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Gages Weights
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Next Steps
Daily Runoff and Temperature data were identified and ready to be used in models .
Number of wells, quantity and usage of ground water that are distributed all over the entire watershed were identified. They are under specification for each sub-catchment.
Data of king Talal Dam, Khirbet As-Samra Treatment Plant were identified and ready to be used in model.
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C. Land Use Change
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45. 2002
1998
1992
CORINE
Class
6.65
5.44
4.52
Continuous Urban Fabric
111
2.96
1.99
1.51
Discontinuous Urban Fabric
112
1.96
1.67
1.43
Mineral Extraction Sites
131
13.31
13.93
16.09
Non-irrigated arable land
211
11.97
11.23
12.96
Permanently Irrigated land
212
1.57
0.88
0.48
Heterogeneous agricultural areas
240
2.60
2.23
2.31
Forests
310
33.27
33.41
36.06
Bare rock
332
25.41
28.92
24.21
Sparsely vegetated areas
333
0.30
0.43
Water bodies
512

46. 512
333
332
310
240
212
211
131
112
111
1.82
0.05
0.00
0.67
0.52
0.30
64.98
Continuous Urban Fabric
2.78
0.27
0.08
.03
.05
0.16
0.13
41.61
1.74
Discontinuous Urban Fabric
2.35
0.53
0.88
.24
1.11
0.38
0.51
26.13
2.6
4.17
Mineral Extraction Sites
6.91
15.81
12.25
3.4
6.90
8.24
45.98
6.39
10.37
4.27
Non-irrigated arable land
2.16
8.56
1.93
0.49
0.62
65.74
10.58
1.99
9.02
7.86
Permanently Irrigated land
0.10
25.01
0.01
0.03
Heterogeneous agricultural areas
0.12
0.71
0.74
67.47
4.03
0.23
0.29
0.41
Forests
10.31
11.65
75.15
15.44
27.19
12.68
25.36
51.11
14.59
12.98
Bare rock
10.82
62.1
8.59
11.92
34.97
11.52
16.41
13.45
21.25
3.66
Sparsely vegetated areas
62.74
0.21
0.22
0.37
0.17
0.11
Water bodies

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