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The Water Resources Service
The water Resources Service is part of the Direction of Studies in the Litani
River Authority (LRA).
The functions of this service are:
-the gauging of all important rivers and springs in
Lebanon,
-the study of underground water resources in the south
Lebanon and the South Bekaa.
The Service commands a brigade of technicians whose duty is the gauging of
the lebanese rivers.
This brigade is distributed in four regional offices each of which gauges the
rivers of a "Mohafazat":
-Beirut ( "Mount Lebanon"),
-Tripoli ( North
Lebanon),
-Chtaura (Bekaa),
-Sidon (South Lebanon).
In the sixties, the lebanese hydrometric network had an excellent extension.
During the civil war, the equipments of the Water Resources Service suffered
very much: 75 % of the field equipments were destroyed, and gauging measurements
were much reduced.
Since 1990, the Service has recovered gradually its activities (restoration of
the stations, acquisition of new flow-meters and of a spectrofluorimeter (for high
flows measurements): presently, the lebanese hydrometric
network includes 41
stations, 35 of which are equiped with a limnigraph,
covering thus the whole country in a rather satisfactory way.
Unfortunately, the qualified technical staff belonging to this Service decreases
year by year due to departure to retirement,and is not sufficiently replaced.
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