Robustness of water resources systems

The robustness of Montane irrigation systems of Thailand in a dynamic human - water resources interface

As an initial effort to understand the Asian irrigation systems dynamism and their robustness overtime, this paper examines two irrigation systems of Kok river system within Mekong river basin in Northern Thailand in the context of changing governance mechanisms and evolution of technological and market forces. Since the processes involved in first starting collective action are different than ...

The Applicability of Robustness Measures to Water Resources Decision Making

The choice among alternative water supply sources is generally based on the fundamental objective of cost minimisation. There is, however, a need to consider sustainability, the environment and social implications in regional water resources planning, in addition to economics. In order to achieve this, multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques can be used. There are a large number of M...

Reliability of Operation of Water Resources Systems

The concept of reliability of a water resources system is examined from the point of view of hydrologic design, within a model-based system framework. Four levels of design are distinguished and illustrated. Level I is the classical method of design by exceedence probability; level II consists in design by Gaussian probability of failure (or its complement, the reliability); level III is design...

Performance Evaluation of Water Resources Systems

Conceptual Patterns for Water Resources Information Systems

Water Resources Information Systems (WRIS) present different types of problems during the data storage and analysis phases, related with the complex nature of the environmental data spacio-temporal phenomena. There are many questions to deal with, such as geographic representation of environmental variables, large timeseries management, measurements and observations related with different hydro...