Managing Water Resources In Large River Basins

Author : William Young,Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783036504667

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Managing Water Resources in Large River Basins by William Young,Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep Pdf

Management of water resources in large rivers basins typically differs in important ways from management in smaller basins. While in smaller basins the focus of water resources management may be on project implementation, irrigation and drainage management, water use efficiency and flood operations; in larger basins, because of the greater complexity and competing interests, there is often a greater need for long-term strategic river basin planning across sectors and jurisdictions, and considering social, environmental, and economic outcomes. This puts a focus on sustainable development, including consumptive water use and non-consumptive water uses, such as inland navigation and hydropower. It also requires the consideration of hard or technical issues—data, modeling, infrastructure—as well as soft issues of governance, including legal frameworks, policies, institutions, and political economy. Rapidly evolving technologies could play a significant role in managing large basins. This Special Issue of Water traverses these hard and soft aspects of managing water resources in large river basins through a series of diverse case studies from across the globe that demonstrate recent advances in both technical and governance innovations in river basin management.

Author : William Young,Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3036504672

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Managing Water Resources in Large River Basins by William Young,Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep Pdf

Management of water resources in large rivers basins typically differs in important ways from management in smaller basins. While in smaller basins the focus of water resources management may be on project implementation, irrigation and drainage management, water use efficiency and flood operations; in larger basins, because of the greater complexity and competing interests, there is often a greater need for long-term strategic river basin planning across sectors and jurisdictions, and considering social, environmental, and economic outcomes. This puts a focus on sustainable development, including consumptive water use and non-consumptive water uses, such as inland navigation and hydropower. It also requires the consideration of hard or technical issues--data, modeling, infrastructure--as well as soft issues of governance, including legal frameworks, policies, institutions, and political economy. Rapidly evolving technologies could play a significant role in managing large basins. This Special Issue of Water traverses these hard and soft aspects of managing water resources in large river basins through a series of diverse case studies from across the globe that demonstrate recent advances in both technical and governance innovations in river basin management.

Author : Dustin E Garrick,George R M Anderson,Daniel Connell,Jamie Pittock
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781781955055

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Federal Rivers by Dustin E Garrick,George R M Anderson,Daniel Connell,Jamie Pittock Pdf

This book provides a critical analysis of the impact of borders and divided governance on large rivers in federal political systems. The OECD has identified the global water crisis as one of governance and policy fragmentation. Population and economic

Author : Milan Dimkic,Heinz-Jurgen Brauch,Michael Kavanaugh
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843391906

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Groundwater Management in Large River Basins by Milan Dimkic,Heinz-Jurgen Brauch,Michael Kavanaugh Pdf

Part of Groundwater Set - Buy all six books and save over 30% on buying separately! This book reviews the state-of-the-art of groundwater management in large river basins, providing an innovative, informative and consistent approach with technical tools for planners, decision makers and engineers. Groundwater Management in Large River Basins provides comprehensive coverage of the basic elements of groundwater management in large river basins, including: Social, economic and legislative framework, goals, practices and possible tools Review of EU groundwater legislation and its implementation Natural groundwater occurrence and natural circumstances and processes Groundwater management and maintenance issues: Role of natural factors in groundwater management Different methods of groundwater abstraction and protection Groundwater treatment technologies Well ageing and maintenance Nitrate problems, etc. Groundwater modeling as a tool for groundwater assessment Aquifer restoration A spectrum of technical appendices for engineers, which address groundwater issues Also included will be appendices intended to support the work of groundwater engineers. This book will be of interest to groundwater engineers and planners, as well as lecturers and postgraduate and postdoctoral students.

Author : François Molle
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : 9789290906520

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Planning and Managing Water Resources at the River-basin Level by François Molle Pdf

The concept of a river basin as a management or planning unit has gone through several stages and is in a state of flux.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Integrated water development
ISBN : 9789290904786

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Integrated Water-resources Management in a River-basin Context by Anonim Pdf

The main objective of the 5-day workshop was to present and discuss research being conducted by IWMI and IFPRI in selected river basins in the Asian region with financial support from the ADB through its regional technical assistance mechanism (RETA). The studies conducted by the two centers share some common goals, and encompass work plans and methodologies that are highly complementary and mutually supportive.

Author : Jan Lundqvist,Ulrik Lohm,Malin Falkenmark
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400954588

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Strategies for River Basin Management by Jan Lundqvist,Ulrik Lohm,Malin Falkenmark Pdf

Author : John M. Tyson
Publisher : IWA Publishing (International Water Assoc)
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:X004383596

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Management of Large River Basins by John M. Tyson Pdf

The river basin continues to be seen as the best basis for the management of the water environment. Water resources and receiving water impacts urban and rural environments, diffuse and point-source pollution- in the context of the river basin there is the prospect of a rational balancing of competing and interacting elements. Much exciting research on catchment management has been carried out in Central and Eastern Europe in recent years, which led to the 8th conference of IAWQ's River Basin Management Specialist Group being held in Budapest to disseminate the knowledge and experience of some of the world?s leading experts. Anyone who is involved in carrying out research or implementing river basin management strategies will find these proceedings an excellent source of information and insight. Amongst the 26 papers selected for these proceedings, work on the Danube Basin features strongly, but papers from the rest of the world are also well represented, with papers on: Policy Management and legislation Nutrients balances Catchment management Water quality modelling.

Author : Jaroslav Mysiak,Hans Jorgen Henrikson,Caroline Sullivan,John Bromley,Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134039579

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The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook by Jaroslav Mysiak,Hans Jorgen Henrikson,Caroline Sullivan,John Bromley,Claudia Pahl-Wostl Pdf

The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human beliefs, actions and values play a central role. Furthermore, the growing uncertainties of global climate change and the long term implications of management actions make the problems even more difficult. This book explains the benefits, outcomes and lessons learned from adaptive water management (AWM). In essence AWM is a way of responding to uncertainty by designing policy measures which are provisional and incremental, subject to subsequent modification in response to environmental change and other variables. Included are illustrative case studies from seven river basins from across Europe, West Asia and Africa: the Elbe, Rhine, Guadiana, Tisza, Orange, Nile and Amudarya. These exemplify the key challenges of adaptive water management, especially when rivers cross national boundaries, creating additional problems of governance.

Author : Alberto Garrido,Ariel Dinar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135968892

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Managing Water Resources in a Time of Global Change by Alberto Garrido,Ariel Dinar Pdf

Bringing together a raft of leading experts on water resources, this book explores the major issues facing this major subdivision of international studies. Employing a cross disciplinary perspective from economics, management, politics, law and international relations, water resources are examined from every angle.

Author : Daene C. McKinney,International Water Management Institute
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Groundwater
ISBN : 9789290903765

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Modeling Water Resources Management at the Basin Level by Daene C. McKinney,International Water Management Institute Pdf

The world is facing severe and growing challenges in maintainig water quality and meeting the rapidly growing demand for water resources. In addition, water used for irrigation, the largest use of water in most developing countries, will likely have to be diverted increasingly to meet the needs of urban areas and industry whilst remaining a prime engine of agricultural growth. Finally, environmental and other in-stream water demands become more important as economies develop. The river basin has been acknowledged to be the appropriate unit of analysis to address these chanllenges facing water resources management: and modeling at this scale can provide essential information for policy makers in their decisions on allication of resources. This paper reviews the state of the art of modeling approaches to integrated water resources management at the river basin scale, with particular focus on the potential of coupled economic hydrologic models, and concludes with directions for future modeling exercises.

Author : M. Dinesh Kumar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199088157

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Managing Water in River Basins by M. Dinesh Kumar Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of existing methods of water management and highlights the gaps in the use of water in various river basins. Underlying the futility of 'quick fix' solutions, it puts forward various alternative strategies for water management. Using illustrative case studies, the author lists major challenges in water management: productivity improvement in key-use sectors, inter-sectoral allocation, trans-boundary resource management, and availability in deficient regions. Highlighting the opportunities for improving water productivity in agriculture, he also provides methodologies for generating country- and regional-level water balance scenarios. The volume also discusses the problems involved in allocating water in river basins. Kumar gives a detailed account of some of the widely known economic tools. He examines the institutional and policy measures for ensuring sustainable use of water and economic growth, including the creation of new organizations.

Author : Geoffrey Gooch,Per Stålnacke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136541100

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Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management by Geoffrey Gooch,Per Stålnacke Pdf

One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the description of practical experiences from river basins in Europe, India and South-East Asia. These include the Tungabhadra (India), Sesan (Vietnam/Cambodia), Tagus (Spain/Portugal) and Glomma (Norway), which particularly highlight issues associated with pollution, severely altered river flows and transboundary conflicts. Following two chapters which lay the framework for the book the authors describe how SPSI was managed in the case study basins and how stakeholder participation and scenarios were used to integrate different perspectives, and to facilitate the communication of different forms of knowledge. Four important aspects of water management and SPSI are then discussed; these are water pollution, land and water interaction, environmental flow and transboundary water regimes. Short descriptions of the case study rivers are provided together with analyses of how SPSI was managed in water management in these basins and policy recommendations for the basins. The book concludes by providing a series of recommendations for improving the science-policy-stakeholder interface in water management. It represents a major step forward in our understanding of how to implement integrated water resources management.

Author : Canadian Water Resources Association,Grand River Conservation Authority
Publisher : Department of Geography, University of Waterloo
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032778875

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River Basin Management by Canadian Water Resources Association,Grand River Conservation Authority Pdf

Proceedings of "River Basin Management: Canadian Experiences", a national symposium held in Kitchener, Ontario, October 4-7, 1981. Focuses on strategic issues associated with river basin management in Canada. Covers management problems, alternative solutions, implementing selected plans, and monitoring implemented activities.

Author : Zheenbek E. Kulenbekov,Baktyiar D. Asanov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030683375

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Water Resource Management in Central Asia and Afghanistan by Zheenbek E. Kulenbekov,Baktyiar D. Asanov Pdf

The book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of development-directed investigations in the main rivers of wider Central Asia and Afghanistan. The book highlights the development of river systems, water reservoirs, ecosystems and risks as well as the impact of climate change on water resources in Central Asian countries and Afghanistan. It provides information on the genesis of river basins, physical and chemical properties of water in rivers, and the hydrological regimes of the rivers of Central Asia and Afghanistan. The book is useful for scientists and researchers whose work focuses on rivers and the use of water resources, irrigation, ecosystems, risks, water supply, climate change and remote sensing, as well as for students and planners, administrations and other stakeholders in the water sector.