Mapping in the Homs region of Syria has revealed a hitherto unrecognized staircase of at least 12 gravel terraces of the upper Orontes River. The terrace gravels overlie Pliocene lacustrine marl and have been calcareously cemented into conglomerates, sometimes interbedded with cemented fine-grained alluvium. A tentative dating scheme, based on modelling the regional-scale surface uplift that ha...

distribution of the genus chondrostoma in iran, which is mostly known from the caspian sea, tigris river, kor river and esfahan basins was mapped. the kura nase, chondrostoma cyri is reported from armenia, georgia and iran and it is found in the streams and rivers draining to the western coast of the caspian sea from the kuma river in the north southward to the kura and aras river basins in the...

Surface waters become more and more polluted, depending on human activities around them. The current study has been conducted to evaluate the impact of Syrian civil war on water quality of the Turkish part of Orontes River. For so doing, it has obtained monitoring data between 2006 and 2014 from state of Hydraulic Works of Turkey, analyzing them via Water Quality Index (WQI) and Principal Compo...

Surface waters become more and more polluted, depending on human activities around them. The current study has been conducted to evaluate the impact of Syrian civil war on water quality of the Turkish part of Orontes River. For so doing, it has obtained monitoring data between 2006 and 2014 from state of Hydraulic Works of Turkey, analyzing them via Water Quality Index (WQI) and Principal Compo...

The 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses International Watercourses (UNWC) contains a negotiation framework for transboundary water rights. However, it is subjective document open to wide range possibilities and interpretations. Water Rights Allocations (WRAs) as described by Dinar Nigatu (2013) Tsur (2017) provide limited number quantifiable allocation based UNWC....

The length-weight relationships (LWRs) are one of the most useful parameters for fishery management and have importance in fisheries science. present study describes four freshwater fish species from Asi River system (Hatay, Turkey), namely Cobitis anabelae Freyhof, Bayçelebi & Geiger, 2018, levantina Krupp Moubayed, 1992, Oxynamecheilus hamvii (Krupp Schneider, 1991) namiri 1991). A total ...

“Friendship dams” are an explicit, yet underexplored, materialization of hydropolitics that illustrate the potential role water in international cooperation. Via a case study analysis Syria-Turkey Friendship Dam project proposed for Asi/Orontes river, we trace process cooperation led to use this notion “friendship” transboundary Using transversal different phases and non-cooperation, consider b...