From Flood Control to Water Management: A Journey of Bangladesh towards Integrated Water Resources Management

Flood Management from the Perspective of Integrated Water Resource Management

The Associated Flood Management Programme of the World Meteorological Organisation and Global Water Partnership (2002) has suggested that there are a number of implications for flood management. he first of these is to recognise that the catchment is a system. If we consider the functioning of the catchment; it is a dynamic system in which there are exchanges and movements of sediment, water an...

A Stochastic Model for Water Resources Management

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...

USAID Water Team Case Study in Integrated Water Resources Management

beginnings as a frontier oil town, the ment planning. Local governments are city's economy has diversified and now also seizing the opportunity to devise Coastal zone management; acts as a magnet for migrants from more responsive development proIndonesia; integrated water resources Sulawesi and Java. The city's population grams funded with an increased share management of around 450,000 is grow...

Finding Practical Approaches to Integrated Water Resources Management

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has often been interpreted and implemented in a way that is only really suited to countries with the most developed water infrastructures and management capacities. While sympathetic to many of the criticisms levelled at the IWRM concept and recognising the often disappointing levels of adoption, this paper and the series of papers it introduces iden...

A Simulation Library for an Integrated Water Resources Management