As one of the most crucial indices sustainable development and water security, resources carrying capacity (WRCC) has been a pivotal hot-button issue in planning management. Quantifying WRCC can provide useful references on optimizing allocation guiding development. In this study, WRCCs both current future periods were systematically quantified using set pair analysis (SPA), which was formulate...

Mechanistic modeling of water resources systems is a broad field with abundant challenges. We consider classes of model formulations that are considered routine, the focus of current work, and the foundation of foreseeable work over the coming decade. These model formulations are used to assess the current and evolving state of solution algorithms, discretization methods, nonlinear and linear a...

Water resources are one of the limiting factors of regional development around the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean. Scarcity and conflict, but also considerable uncertainty, inter-annual variability, and simple lack of reliable data characterize the problems of water resource management in many countries and river basins. Within the EU sponsored international RTD project OPTIMA a water resou...

The role of the river in global water cycles and the modeling of horizontal water transport by rivers in the global scale are discussed. Due to the consolidation of various hydrological information about the planet, it is possible now to monitor and simulate the quantity of water carried by rivers. Land surface models, that were developed originally for giving the boundary condition of the atmo...

Available water resources for agricultural irrigation have decreased worldwide in recent decades, prompting advances in water saving methods. In this study, soil water regime and water balance in a transplanted rice field with reduced irrigation (multiple shallow depth irrigations) in the Taihu Lake Basin of East China were observed and then evaluated using Hydrus-1D model during two consecutiv...

In this study, a water resource management model that facilitates indicator-based decisions, with respect to environmental, social and economic dimensions in a multiple criteria perspective, is developed for the Gediz River Basin in Turkey. The basic input of the proposed model is the quantity of surface water that is mainly allocated to irrigation purposes. The model has been applied under 3 d...