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Water Resources Systems Planning and Management: An Introduction to Methods, Models and Applications
This 2005 version has been superseded by the 2017 edition, available in full here: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/48159Throughout history much of the world has witnessed
ever-greater demands for reliable, high-quality and
inexpensive water supplies for domestic consumption,
agriculture and industry. In recent decades there have
also been increasing demands for hydrological regimes
that support healthy and diverse ecosystems, provide for
water-based recreational activities, reduce if not prevent
floods and droughts, and in some cases, provide for the
production of hydropower and ensure water levels adequate
for ship navigation. Water managers are challenged
to meet these multiple and often conflicting demands. At
the same time, public stakeholder interest groups have
shown an increasing desire to take part in the water
resources development and management decision making
process. Added to all these management challenges
are the uncertainties of natural water supplies and
demands due to changes in our climate, changes in
people's standards of living, changes in watershed land
uses and changes in technology. How can managers
develop, or redevelop and restore, and then manage water
resources systems - systems ranging from small watersheds
to those encompassing large river basins and coastal
zones - in a way that meets society's changing objectives
and goals? In other words, how can water resources
systems become more integrated and sustainable
Water Resources Systems Planning and Management: An Introduction to Methods, Models and Applications
This revised, updated textbook presents a systems approach to the planning, management, and operation of water resources infrastructure in the environment. Previously published in 2005 by UNESCO and Deltares (Delft Hydraulics at the time), this new edition, written again with contributions from Jery R. Stedinger, Jozef P. M. Dijkman, and Monique T. Villars, is aimed equally at students and professionals. It introduces readers to the concept of viewing issues involving water resources as a system of multiple interacting components and scales. It offers guidelines for initiating and carrying out water resource system planning and management projects.
It introduces alternative optimization, simulation, and statistical methods useful for project identification, design, siting, operation and evaluation and for studying post-planning issues. The authors cover both basin-wide and urban water issues and present ways of identifying and evaluating alternatives for addressing multiple-purpose and multi-objective water quantity and quality management challenges. Reinforced with cases studies, exercises, and media supplements throughout, the text is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in water resource planning and management as well as for practicing planners and engineers in the field.Deltares, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Educatio