Modeling and analysis of collective management of water resources A. Tilmant, P. van der Zaag, and P. Fortemps UNESCO-IHE, Department of Management and Institution, Delft, The Netherlands Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Department of Applied Mathematics and Operational Research, Mons, Belgium Received: 4 July 2006 – Accepted: 17 August 2006 ...

Water is a naturally circulating resource that is constantly recharged. Therefore, even though the stocks of water in natural and artificial reservoirs are helpful to increase the available water resources for human society, the flow of water should be the main focus in water resources assessments. The climate system puts an upper limit on the circulation rate of available renewable freshwater ...

River ow forecasts are required to provide basic information for reservoir management in a multipurpose water system optimisation framework. An accurate prediction of ow rates in tributary streams is crucial to optimise the management of water resources considering extended time horizons. Moreover, runo3 prediction is crucial in protection from water shortage and possible ood damages. In this p...

Reservoirs serve as important facilities, providing a stable source of public water in Taiwan. As construction of new reservoirs becomes more difficult, it is essential to ensure sustainable functionality of reservoirs in the future. To this end, this study proposes a system for reservoir sustainability evaluation. The evaluation system consists of social justice, environmental protection, and ...

Scarcity of water resources and huge costs of establishing new hydraulic installations necessitate optimal exploitation from existing reservoirs. Sustainable management and efficient exploitation from existing finite water resources are important factors in water resource management, particularly in the periods of water insufficiency and in dry regions, and on account of competitive allocations...

T. S. Cheong (corresponding author) Disaster Information Analysis Center, National Institute for Disaster Prevention, 253-42, Gongdeok 2-dong, Mapo-Gu, Seoul 121-179, South Korea Tel.:+822 3271-3232; Fax:+822 32713239; E-mail: [email protected] I. Ko Korea Institute of Water Resources and Environment, Korea Water Resources Corporation, Daejeon 305-730, Korea South Korea J. W. Labadie Departmen...

A dynamic water allocation framework for a multipurpose, single reservoir is formulated to utilize climate information based reservoir inflow forecasts to quantify the reliability of use for the given demand. Based on the semi-parametric approach of De Souza and Lall [2003], 12 months lead retrospective reservoir inflow forecasts were developed for the period July 1990June 2000 for the Oros res...

conclusions the results indicated that the model, compared with other models, was user-friendly and the desired results were obtained by a minimal data. materials and methods the current paper developed a process model. first, a sketch of nitrate and ammonia storage, their specifications and parameters were set out and created on a page, and then, mathematical relations of each process were set...

Abstract Water resources allocation is an important technical tool to alleviate the conflict between water supply and demand, improve utilization efficiency, achieve control target of total utilization. However, current theory immature, there are few objective quantitative methods, which leads relatively backward practice. Moreover, amounts allocable change dynamically, makes static single trad...