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6. Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University (BGU),
Israel. The Institute for Desert Research is part of Ben-Gurion University (BGU),
located in Beer-Sheva, in the southern part of Israel. There are around 400
Professors and a total of around 1000 senior research/teaching faculty. There
are around 13,000 students at BGU, in a broad range of areas including
liberal arts, humanities, natural sciences,
engineering, communication and others. Around 60 senior researchers
and additional 80 administrative and technical workers belong to the Institute
for Desert Research. Research areas cover typical topics related to arid regions
such as water resources, environemental control, meteorology, solar energy,
social studies, microbiology, runoff framing, ecology, agrobiology and algal
research . Research activities are based on fund raising from national and
international resources. The leader of the Israeli group is prof. Gideon Oron. A graduate (B.Sc.:
1962-1967; M.Sc.: 1967-1969: and D.Sc.: 1972-1975) of the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa, has conducted research on wastewater treatment,
effluent reuse, management modeling; irrigation, aquaculture, environmental
systems. He has over 100 publications in manuals, technical journals, and
conference proceeding. -
Brimberg, J., A. Mehrez,
and G. Oron, An integrated model for
the development of marginal water sources in
the Negev Desert. European Journal of Operations Research.
Vol. 81, 1995, pp. 35-49. -
Oron, G., M. Goemans, Y. Manor, and J. Feyen.
Poliovirus distribution in the soil-plant system under subsurface drip
irrigation of secondary wastewater.
Water Research, Vol. 29, No, 4, 1995,
pp. 1069-1078 . -
Oron, G.- Management modeling of integrative
wastewater treatment and reuse systems. Water Science Technology, Vol. 33 , No.
10-11, 1996, pp. 95-105
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Oron, G. The soil as a complementary treatment
component for simultaneous wastewater disposal and reuse. Water Science
Technology, Vol. 34 , No. 11 , 1996, pp. 243-252 . -
Persia, C., G. Oron, A. Mehrez.
Optimal operation of regional system with diverse water quality sources.
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, Vol. 123, No. 2, March/April
1997, pp. 105-115 [Price of best year paper by the American Society of Civil
Engineering in the area of Water Resources Planning and Management] . In addition there will be graduate students working on the project. One
of them is Leonid Gillerman, that is conducting his graduate research on
migration of low quality waters in the soil along with the dissolved
constituents movement. -
Oron, G., C. Campos, L. Gillerman, and M. Salgot.
Wastewater treatment, renovation and reuse for agricultural irrigation in small
communities. Agricultural Water Management, Vol. 38, 223-234, 1999. -
Oron, G., Y. DeMalach, L. Gillerman, I. David,
and V. P. Rao. Improved saline water use under subsurface drip irrigation.
Agricultural Water Management, Vol. 39, 19-33, 1999. |