Data management for integrated water resources management in Central Asia

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...

Water in Central Asia: an integrated assessment for science-based management

Central Asia contains one of the largest internal drainage basins in the world, and its continental location results in limited availability of both surface and groundwater. Since the twentieth century, water resources of the region have been exploited beyond sustainable levels. From small Mongolian headwater streams to the mighty Aral Sea, surface waters have been partially desiccated. Demands...

USAID Water Team Case Study in Integrated Water Resources Management

beginnings as a frontier oil town, the ment planning. Local governments are city's economy has diversified and now also seizing the opportunity to devise Coastal zone management; acts as a magnet for migrants from more responsive development proIndonesia; integrated water resources Sulawesi and Java. The city's population grams funded with an increased share management of around 450,000 is grow...

A Simulation Library for an Integrated Water Resources Management

Generic Modeling Framework for Integrated Water Resources Management

By definition, integrated water resources management (IWRM) deals with planning, design and operation of complex systems in order to control the quantity, quality, temporal and spatial distribution of water with the main objective of meeting human and ecological needs and providing protection from water disasters. Complexity is a result of water resources system structure and interaction betwee...