It is a similar story for the north-western Sahara aquifer system (NWSAS), Shared by Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.
Using the Houzhai karst watershed in Guizhou Province as an example, a time series analysis method was used to study the hydrodynamic characteristics of the karst aquifer system.
The Libyans say they may stop growing wheat using water from the NWSAS and the Nubian sandstone aquifer system, the world’s largest fossil aquifer, which they share with Egypt, Chad and Sudan.