water management Articles
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Urban Water and Sanitation Services; An IWRM Approach (GWP 2006)
In this paper an attempt is made to consider IWRM approaches to urban water management in a broader way. While appropriate managment tools will be considered, attention is focussed on institutional design, decision-making scale, governance and the critical question of impledmentation practice. Continue reading the full ...
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Organizational values and the implications for mainstreaming climate adaptation in Dutch municipalities: using Q methodology
Mainstreaming climate adaptation requires the inclusion of climate adaptation in the policies of various policy domains such as water management and spatial planning. This paper investigates the organizational values present in several municipal policy departments in order to explore their willingness to act upon climate adaptation and the implications for mainstreaming. Q methodology, ...
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Conjunctive management of surface and groundwater in transboundary watercourses: a first assessment
Cooperative management of transboundary river basins is widely recognized as important. Emphasis on joint management of shared aquifers has also grown in recent years. Perhaps surprisingly, despite abundant focus on transboundary surface water and growing focus on shared groundwater, there is scant focus on their intersection. To address this knowledge limitation, this article reviews ...
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FORUM–13: Competitive water use and its redistribution
Adequate sources of water, surface and ground water have to be available to meet not only the current needs but also the future growth of a community or a region. This brief Forum outlines some examples which illustrate how the water redistribution issue has been handled in the past. It concludes that, despite expected political resistance and high project costs, mega water projects often prove ...
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Towards interactive flood management in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Water governance in urban areas is inherently complex and challenging. During recent decades, water management has increasingly been focusing on integration of the different economic demands regarding water resources. Modern water governance takes the whole water system into account in its aim to optimise the different values of the water system, in close interaction with stakeholders. This paper ...
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Supply Concerns Continue, and Uncertainties Complicate Planning
The nation’s water bodies have long supplied Americans with abundant freshwater, but recent events, such as the ongoing California drought, have focused attention on competing demands for this limited resource. In the United States, the states are primarily responsible for managing freshwater resources, and many federal agencies influence states’ management decisions. In 2003, GAO ...
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Set of policy briefs for water management practitioners
The content of these policy briefs is based on the outcomes from a series of workshops which took place in several different European cities in 2012. The workshops were designed to help governance bodies and citizens groups explore their visions for the future of urban water services. Participants discussed what they saw as key challenges for urban water services, as well as the benefits and ...
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Water institutional reforms in Chile
ABSTRACT This paper provides a review of the recent institutional changes observed in the water sector in Chile. This review is then used to reflect the Chilean experience in the light of the results concerning institutional change found in existing literature on both institutional economics in general and water institutional economics in particular. These results relate to factors explaining ...
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Traditional qanat related jurisprudence in Algeria
The purpose of this paper is to present an investigation on the relevance of the historical water legislation which would adapt to the modern sustainable water management. It is mainly based on the book by Ernest Feline related to the qanat system in the arid M'Zab valley in southern Algeria. It also refers to some related lectures on the traditional water legislation in the Sahara region and ...
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Tools for keeping IWRM strategic planning on track (GWP, 2006)
How do you ensure that the process of formulating your Integrated Water Resources Management plan or strategy1 moves forward smoothly and includes all the steps needed to pave the way for successful implementation and, ultimately, to catalyze positive change? The following brief describes how two project ...
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From monocentric ideal to polycentric pragmatism in the Syr Darya: searching for second best approaches
While best practice in water management typically calls for the use of a basinlevel approach, specific guidance in the absence of basinlevel management is fairly scant. This paper reviews the experience of the Syr Darya basin to identify insights related to second best practices for water management at scales below the basin level. This paper first presents the causes for the disintegration of ...
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Water scenario in India
This paper gives the average annual rainfall in some states of India and discusses the water scenario of some metropolitan cities of India. The major river basins, medium river basins and various water resources of India are also listed, with emphasis on water resource planning and management in India.Keywords: water scenario, India, average annual rainfall, water resources, water resource ...
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A case study on a quasi-market mechanism for water resources allocation using laboratory experiments: the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, China
The chosen water management mechanism will directly or indirectly determine the success or failure of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. Due to the importance and complexity of the project and based on national conditions and the water situation, it is necessary to adopt a quasi-market mechanism. Using the advanced experience in China and abroad for reference, this study takes the ...
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Water resources and climate change: water managers' perceptions of these related environmental issues
The present study focuses on climate change and water resources. Its objectives are: (i) to understand the perceptions of climate change by water managers responsible for the French Water Development and Management Schemes (SAGEs); and (ii) to determine whether or not these managers consider this phenomenon in their management of water resources. The analysis is mainly based on ...
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A global assessment of basin plans: definitions, lessons, recommendations
Basin plans have become a core element of water management in the 21st century. Systematic analytical scrutiny of the contents of basin plans is nonetheless scant. This paper develops a framework for assessing basin plans and systematically applies it to understand how contents of basin plans vary. The paper synthesizes a definition of ‘basin plan’, generates a classification system for basin ...
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Analytical hierarchical process (AHP) as a decision support tool in water resources management
Despite advances in water conservation, abstraction and transport, water demand has been increasing worldwide in the past few decades. This has resulted in an increased pressure on stakeholders to provide sustainable solutions to meet future water demands. The decision-making process to find those solutions is becoming increasingly complicated. First, owing to the arrival of new technologies or ...
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Adapting to Climate Change in Transboundary Water Management
Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by anthropogenic climate changes. One of those affected systems is the hydrological cycle which encompasses water availability and water quality as well as water services (IPCC, 2007). Adaptation to climate change is, consequently, of urgent importance. The impacts will certainly vary ...
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Towards water sensitive cities in Asia: an interdisciplinary journey
Rapid urbanisation, population growth and the effects of climate change drive the need for sustainable urban water management (SUWM) in Asian cities. The complexity of this challenge calls for the integration of knowledge from different disciplines and collaborative approaches. This paper identifies key issues and sets the stage for interdisciplinary research on SUWM in Asia. It reports on ...
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Methodology of functionality selection for water management software and examples of its application
When developing new software products and adapting existing software, project leaders have to decide which functionalities to keep, adapt or develop. They have to consider that the cost of making errors during the specification phase is extremely high. In this paper a formalised approach is proposed that considers the main criteria for selecting new software functions. The application of this ...
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