The Use of Qattara's Depression to Reduce the Effect of Rising Water Levels as a Result of Global Warming

Ahmed, Youssef Osama; Atty, Mahmoud Mohamed; Abd El Rahman, Mohamed El Sayed

doi:10.21608/iugrc.2022.303090

The Use of Qattara's Depression to Reduce the Effect of Rising Water Levels as a Result of Global Warming

Document Type : Original Article

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Military Technical College, Civil Engineering Department, Cairo, Egypt.

10.21608/iugrc.2022.303090

Abstract

Global warming refers to natural duration changes in temperatures and weather phenomenon. Since two centuries ago, human activities have effect climate changes, due to the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas which produces heat –trapping gases. Global warming is the long term warming of the planet's overall temperature; this warming is increased in the last hundred years due to the effect of climate changes and heattrapping gases. Volume of fossil fuels is
increased as the human population has increased. The burning of fossil fuels causes greenhouse gasses which prevent the heat from leaving the atmosphere. These gasses are carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, water vapor, methane and nitrous oxide. Moreover, Global warming causes a serious threat to human, animals and plants life on the earth in the forms of widespread flooding, changes in weather pattern and sea level rise, caused from melting ice sheets and glaciers in North and South poles. Global warming effect strongly on the widening of the Ozone hole, this will cause a dramatically effect on sea rise all over world water's regions, then most of costal countries will be submerged by water and disappeared from the world maps. The objective of this research is carried out to reduce the rate of sea level rise along Egyptian shore line by constructing channel between Mediterranean Sea and Qattara Depression. The study area is located along the shoreline of the Egyptian Delta region. Most countries of this region is affected strongly from sea rise especially that located along the coastal border. Maps of scale 1:500,000 for Cairo, Alexandria, and Bahariya Governorates, as well as Digital Terrain Models (DTM) for these districts were studied in order to determine the suitable route for the channel that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Qattara Depression.

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