Climate change (CC), as predicted by several global climate models, is very likely to have severe impacts in the future, on top of all other global changes. These impacts may have significant influence on natural resources especially surface and groundwater. This influence is particularly problematic for the Mediterranean coastal areas, and especially the northern Nile Delta Aquifer (NDA), where both natural and socio-economic resources of significant values are located. Moreover, population increase and development imperatives create additional pressure on the available water resources. These conditions may eventually lead to insufficient coverage of the needed water demands for agriculture, domestic usage as well as urban and industrial development,
unless adaptation and mitigation measures are developed ahead of time.@en