Socioeconomic drought occurs when a water shortage is caused by an imbalance between the supply and demand of resources in natural human socioeconomic systems. Compared with meteorological drought, hydrological agricultural has received relatively little attention. Hence, this study aims to construct universal simple assessment index, Standardized Supply Demand Water Index (SSDWI). Taking Jianj...

owing to the oncoming needs and increasing the population of lake urmia watershed, providing equilibrium  between water supply and demand seems quite challenging and the lake cannot be successful in meeting its ecological demands in this critical condition. in this unfavorable situation, water resources must be managed through a sustainable context. with this knowledge in hand, a multi attribut...

In order to determine the sustainable supporting capacity of current Kiamusze water utilization situation to future society and economy, a dynamic simulation model of water resources sustainable utilization was built based on system dynamics (SD). The simulation results indicated that current Kiamusze water resources could not satisfy future demand of industrial and agricultural production and ...

For the past several years, Cyprus has been facing an unprecedented water crisis. Four options that have been considered to help resolve the problem of drought in Cyprus include imposing effective water use restrictions, implementing water-demand reduction programs, optimizing water supply systems, and developing sustainable alternative water source strategies. An important aspect of these init...

The global effort toward sustainable development has initiated a transition in water management. Water utility companies use water-pricing policies as an instrument for controlling residential water demand. To support policy makers in their decisions, the authors have developed DAWN, a hybrid model for evaluating water-pricing policies. DAWN integrates an agent-based social model for the consum...