River management conditions are highly variable and sometimes even unpredictable. Climatic, demographic, industrial and management or planning factors are the main sources of this variability that entails to consider more flexible ways to manage the system. Water pollution is an important problem of concern in river basins, principally for this abovementioned interconnection between all living ...

This paper focuses on the integration of basin sediment transport with a physically-based hydrological model that links the water budget model WaSiM (Water Simulation Model) to the erosion model AGNPS__5. The results of the water budget simulation are then incorporated into the AGNPS_5 model to calculate sediment transport. The surface runoff calculated in WaSiM replaces the SCS curve number ru...

In 2004, Huai River Basin’s total gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at 1.05 trillion Yuan, which is 148% higher than 1994 records. It is a preponderantly evolving area in China. The numbers of industries serviced by the Huai River Basin are continuously on the increase including paper industry, production of coal chemical, textiles and food processing. One major industry having unprece...

The Sinos River basin is located Northeast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (29º 20' to 30º 10' S and 50º 15' to 51º20'W), Southern Brazil, covering two geomorphologic provinces: the Southern plateau and central depression. It is part of the Guaíba basin and has an area of approximately 800 km², encompassing 32 municipalities. The objective of this study was to monitor water quality in the Sin...

For centuries, the Ganges River in India has been the locus of sacred rites for the Hindus. The religious significance of the Ganges is physically manifested in ghats (stepped landings) that form the land-water interface. Besides serving as a site for religious bathing and cremation, the ghats are also tied to people’s livelihoods and are an inseparable part of their daily lives. Today, the inc...

Understanding the processes responsible for the distribution of water availability over space and time is of great importance to spatial planning in a semi-arid river basin. In this study the usefulness of a multiagent simulation (MAS) approach for representing these processes is discussed. A MAS model has been developed to represent local water use of farmers that both respond to and modify th...

The Sinos River basin is located Northeast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (29° 20’ to 30° 10’ S and 50° 15’ to 51° 20’ W), Southern Brazil, covering two geomorphologic provinces: the Southern plateau and central depression. It is part of the Guaíba basin and has an area of approximately 800 km, encompassing 32 municipalities. The objective of this study was to monitor water quality in the Si...

In recent years, global climate change has altered precipitation patterns, causing uneven spatial and temporal distribution of precipitation that gradually induces precipitation polarization phenomena. Taiwan is located in the subtropical climate zone, with distinct wet and dry seasons, which makes the polarization phenomenon more obvious; this has also led to a large difference between river f...

Abstract Sediment connectivity is a distributed property of river systems that emerges from the connected transfer sediment between multiple sources and sinks. Its disruption, brought by anthropic disturbances, can have severe unforeseen consequences on both fluvial ecosystems human livelihood. Modeling network-scale provides foundational understanding processes their response to new pressures ...