The objective of the Commonwealth’s Environmental Flows Initiative (EFI) was to assist state and territory water resource agencies meet the COAG Water Reform requirements for making environmental water allocations. The NT received support due in part to the focus on water resource development shifting to Northern Australia and the concurrent lack of understanding about tropical water resources ...

The Romans were perhaps the most impressive exponents of water resource management in preindustrial times with irrigation and virtual water trade facilitating unprecedented urbanization and socioeconomic stability for hundreds of years in a region of highly variable climate. To understand Roman water resource management in response to urbanization and climate variability, a Virtual Water Networ...

haraz-ghareh su is one of the seven sub-basins of the caspian basin, located on the southern shores of the caspian sea, and as such, is in danger of water crisis due to absence of proper systematic policy and strategy. in this study, the pressure factors on the haraz-ghareh su water resources were identified using dpsir model. then, the pressure parameters on the freshwater resources in the cas...

Pakistan is blessed with abundant water resources but facing a critical shortage due to lack of storage facilities, poor governance, and the adverse impacts climate change. The burgeoning population at present 225 million, which expected cross 250 million by 2025 creating an additional burden on resources, as per capita availability depleting sharply from 5,000 m3 in 1951 1,100 2005, fall 800 2...