Water Harvesting for Improving Rainwater Use Efficiency Using GIS: A Case Study, Tigris River Basin, Iraq
The distribution of rainfall in dry areas, such as Iraq, is extremely erratic. The rainfall is mostly limited to occasional, intense, and unpredictable storms with high surface runoff and uncontrolled gullies and rills flowing on soils with low infiltration rates, and then it is collected at the end in wadis. Thus, mo...