Water resources planning and management require problem resolution and optimized use of resources. Since many objectives in water management are conflicting, it is hard to devise one optimum strategy. A simulation tool capable of optimized multiobjective analysis to satisfy multiplicity of goals is needed to support water decision making. This paper suggests an integrated modeling framework to ...

Southern Africa is characterized by a large number of international river basins, inherent climatic variability, and a natural maldistribution of perennial rivers. The region also has a history of political instability, driven by liberation struggles against the former colonial powers and the Cold War. Southern Africa’s transboundary rivers and their associated ecosystems could become either dr...

Swathes of global water challenges, such as shortages, pollution, water-related disasters, and degradation environments, have seriously threatened human development. The discussion security or insecurity has been instrumental in drawing the attention political leaders thanks to its nature strategic urgent messages for society take action. This study introduces a modified concept definition asse...

Water yield, water supply and quality, wildlife habitat, and ecosystem productivity and services are important societal concerns for natural resource management in the 21st century. Watershedscale ecohydrologic studies can provide needed context for addressing complex spatial and temporal dynamics of these functions and services. This study was conducted on the 5240 ha Turkey Creek watershed (W...

The rapid rise in popularity of multimedia applications, such as VoIP, IPTV and Video Conferencing, intensifies the need to consider resource management for user satisfaction. Furthermore, improving Quality of Experience (QoE) in Software Defined Networks (SDNs) services is one of the important issues to be addressed by provisioning optimum resource management. In this paper, resource allocatio...

There is an increasing awareness among regional natural resource managers of the value of data collected by community groups. This includes monitoring of surface rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, estuaries, coastal waters and groundwater. Water quality and condition data collected by community groups supplements information collected by state, regional and local resource management ...

A systems, holistic, or ecosystem approach is often advocated for water management, and has led to the emergence of integrated water resource management, or IWRM. Such an approach can be interpreted as `comprehensive' or `integrated', and analysts, planners, and managers need to understand the difference. Edge or boundary problems always are encountered when applying a holistic approach, and de...

The purpose of the present study was the simulation of climate change effects on groundwater resources in Iran by using the dynamic systems approach. The approach was performed through system dynamics modeling process including problem explanation, system description, model development, model testing, and the use of the model for policy analysis. The impact of the application of various exogeno...

Water is a vital resource for life, and its management is a key issue nowadays. Information and communications technology systems for water control are currently facing interoperability problems due to the lack of support of standardization in monitory and control equipment. This problem affects various processes in water management, such as water consumption, distribution, system identificatio...