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Mustapha Besbes s’est \u00e9teint \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 85 ans, laissant derri\u00e8re lui l’h\u00e9ritage d’un des plus grands hydrog\u00e9ologues que la Tunisie ait connus, sp\u00e9cialiste incontest\u00e9 de l’hydrologie des zones arides et des aquif\u00e8res g\u00e9ants du Sahara.<\/p>\n

N\u00e9 en 1941, il d\u00e9bute sa carri\u00e8re en 1964 comme g\u00e9ologue au Bureau d’inventaire des ressources hydrauliques, o\u00f9 il travaille sur le d\u00e9veloppement des ressources en eau de la Tunisie centrale. Il part ensuite se former \u00e0 Paris, o\u00f9 il obtient une ma\u00eetrise de g\u00e9ologie puis un doctorat en hydrologie en 1967, suivi d’un doctorat \u00e8s sciences en 1978, le tout \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 Pierre et Marie Curie. Entre-temps, de 1972 \u00e0 1979, il travaille comme ing\u00e9nieur de recherche \u00e0 l’\u00c9cole des mines de Paris, o\u00f9 il se sp\u00e9cialise dans la mod\u00e9lisation des aquif\u00e8res, discipline alors naissante. De retour en Tunisie en 1979, il int\u00e8gre l’\u00c9cole nationale d’ing\u00e9nieurs de Tunis, y fonde le Laboratoire d’hydraulique \u2014 devenu en 1999 le Laboratoire de mod\u00e9lisation en hydraulique et environnement \u2014 et dirige l’\u00e9tablissement de 1989 \u00e0 1995.<\/p>\n

Sa contribution scientifique la plus marquante consiste \u00e0 avoir d\u00e9montr\u00e9, contre l’opinion dominante de l’\u00e9poque, que les nappes sahariennes en bordure de l’Atlas continuent de se recharger et ne sont pas de simples r\u00e9serves d’eau fossile fig\u00e9es depuis des mill\u00e9naires. Il a \u00e9galement coordonn\u00e9 la mod\u00e9lisation du Syst\u00e8me aquif\u00e8re du Sahara septentrional, une nappe transfrontali\u00e8re de plus d’un million de kilom\u00e8tres carr\u00e9s partag\u00e9e entre l’Alg\u00e9rie, la Tunisie et la Libye, dans le but de permettre une exploitation concert\u00e9e de cette ressource commune. Dans la derni\u00e8re partie de sa carri\u00e8re, il a \u00e9largi ses travaux aux questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 hydrique nationale, en d\u00e9veloppant notamment les concepts d’eau verte et d’eau virtuelle.<\/p>\n

Cette \u0153uvre lui a valu d’\u00eatre \u00e9lu associ\u00e9 \u00e9tranger de l’Acad\u00e9mie des sciences de l’Institut de France, ainsi que membre de l’Acad\u00e9mie tunisienne des sciences, des lettres et des arts. Mais au-del\u00e0 des distinctions, son h\u00e9ritage le plus durable reste sans doute les g\u00e9n\u00e9rations de chercheurs et d’ing\u00e9nieurs qu’il a form\u00e9s, et la conviction qu’il n’a cess\u00e9 de porter : que la gestion de l’eau, ressource vitale et rare pour la Tunisie, doit toujours s’appuyer sur la rigueur de la connaissance scientifique.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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