Technical Guidelines for Self-reliant Water Resources Development with Tunneled Water Tank

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...

Guidelines for Risk and Uncertainty Analysis in Water Resources Planning

INTRODUCTION The Heck Valley Flood Control Case Study is a hypothetical study prepared to illustrate and support the principles and selected techniques described in the Guidelines and Procedures for Risk and Uncertainty Analysis in Corps' Civil Works Planning and accompanying Appendices. It uses real data from Corps' projects wherever possible in order to represent realistic situations. The dat...

The Sustainable Development of Water Resources

Water resources management is one of the most important challenges the world faces. It is difficult to think of a resource more essential to the health of human communities or their economies than water. Humans cannot live for more than several days without water, shorter than for any source of sustenance other than fresh air. In meeting their demand for water, societies extract vast quantities...

Human Health in Water Resources Development

Trichloroethene in Drinking-water Background document for development of WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality