Water Management

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...

Linked Water Data for Water Information Management

EDWARD CURRY (1), VIKTORIYA DEGELER (1), EOGHAN CLIFFORD (1) DANIEL COAKLEY (1), ANDREA COSTA (2), SCHALK-JAN VAN ANDEL (3), NICK VAN DE GIESEN (4), CHRISTOS KOUROUPETROGLOU (5), THOMAS MESSERVEY (2), JAN MINK (6), SANDER SMIT (7) (1): National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. (2): R2M Solution, Italy. (3): UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands. (4): TU Delft, Netherlands. (5): Ultra 4, Greece. (6): V...

Drainage water management for water quality protection

l and drainage has been central to the development of North America since colonial times, with the first organized drainage efforts occurring as early as the 1600s (Evans et al. 1996). Drainage has been encouraged to improve public highways, reduce public health risks, promote increased crop yield and reduced yield variability, reduce surface runoff and erosion, and increase land value. Agricul...

Water Quality Management:

The sustainable management of water quality has policy, technical, institutional and financial components. In many developing countries restricted funding is usually combined with fragile or unstable institutions and limited technical capabilities to deal with an expanding range of water quality problems. Therefore, there needs to be a priority on establishing a coherent and realistic national ...

Integrating integrated water management