Water resource management in the UK is multifaceted, with a complexity of issues arising from acute and chronic stressors. Below average rainfall spring 2020 coincided large-scale changes to domestic water consumption patterns, first UK-wide COVID-19 lockdown, resulting increased pressure on nationwide resources. A sector wide survey, semi-structured interviews executives, meteorological data, ...

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) recommends, among other things, that the management of water resources systems be carried out at the lowest appropriate level in order to increase the transparency, acceptability and efficiency of the decision-making process. Empowering water users and stakeholders transforms the decision-making process by enlarging the number of point of views that ...

The Health-e-Waterways Project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between the University of Queensland, Microsoft Research and the South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership (SEQHWP). This project develops the underlying technological framework and set of services to enable streamlined access to the expanding collection of real-time, near-real-time and static datasets related to wat...

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...

The paper illustrates a Decision Support System (DSS) for multi-reservoir water resource systems, named WARGI (Water Resources system optimization aided by Graphical Interface). WARGI was upgraded in the SEDEMED II Project to implement a mixed approach that uses optimization and simulation techniques to select the best combination of proactive and reactive measures under drought conditions. The...

By definition the HELP approach involves the active participation of individuals from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, including representatives of industry, academics, natural resource managers, and local officials and community leaders. While there is considerable enthusiasm and support for the integrated HELP approach, a central problem for all HELP basins is how to effectively e...