The 8th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE 2022)

Abstract: Present researches actually are timely and relevant for the issues of origin, regulation, and management of salt intrusion (e.g.) in the ESTUARIES has become highly politicized and is hotly-debated at provincial in the worldwide. Saltwater intrusion affects the economic development of the whole regions. In order to justify managerial and political decisions it is thus necessary to understand and be able to predict the evolution and process of salt-water intrusion in the different estuaries. This topic research embraces an important theme in arid and semiarid regions: salinity dynamics in rivers under tidal influence and freshwater discharge. The understanding of salinity variation associated with different scenarios, i.e., normal, extreme events, and climate change, is of high importance from a scientific point of view, but also is relevant for social, economic, and environmental reasons. In this research we have used the available methods. The application for many estuaries (e.g., Bons Sinais, Muthupet, Ashtamudi, Maha Oya, Bouregreg…etc) systems are new and the integration of these methods in the same envelope is also very interesting and brings in the scientific rigor, innovation, and novelty. The novel data sets collected and consequent analysis and decision support tools developed during this research contribute to understanding the salinity regime in many estuaries and provide insights into feasible management strategies. Specifically, this research contributes to improving our understanding of salinity processes at finer spatial and temporal scale and water availability situation exhibited in the estuaries, which is diverse in the hydrodynamic features. This research and associated peer reviewed publications (see e.g., [1-9]) will reach the broader scientific and decision makers in the riparian countries and beyond. On the other hand, we’ve not ignored that the estuaries are among the most biologically productive ecosystems on the planet critical to the life cycles of fish, other aquatic animals and the creatures which feed on them (see e.g., [10]). An in-depth discussion will be added how salt intrusion help the ecosystems in estuaries compared their management.

Biography: Dr., S. Haddout is researcher in fluid mechanics and modelling in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco. To date, he is the author of 1 book, 2 submitted books, and published more than 45 refereed journal articles with 35 refereed articles as the first; and expert reviewer with AEIC-Academic Exchange Information Centre (China). In addition, Dr. Haddout is a reviewer for many project proposals from international universities; received more than 80 certificates from international conference and renowned journals; invited speaker for many international conferences; and is co-convener for a special scientific session to Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation 2021 (United States). Award-2020 and 2021: Best Research Awards (i.e., Thermodynamic in estuaries; and Water shortages and pandemics in Africa)-International Research Awards…etc. He is acting as an Editorial Board member (Guest Editor/Associate Editor ) for the renowned journals, “Regional Studies in Marine Science Journal”, “Fluid Mechanics Research International Journal”…etc; and is a scientific reviewer for: (e.g) ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering; Brazilian Journal of Water Resources; Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics; Fluids Journal; Journal of environmental Informatics; Oceanologia; The International Journal of River Basin Management; Heliyon Journal; Physics and Chemistry of the Earth; Journal of Marine Systems; GeoJournal (GEJO); Journal of Oceanology and Limnology; Science of the Total Environment; Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research; Environmental Forensics…etc.