Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources provides an essential collection of planning and management tools for minimizing the negative impacts of droughts.

Features:

• Examines the criteria for marginal water treatment and reuse under drought conditions including minimum water quality requisites, the level of treatment and the related cost
• Describes a model that examines conventional and marginal water utilization for solving large-scale water system optimization problems
• Presents tools and models for analyzing the performance of conjunctive use cases, emphasizing their ease of use, versatility, and rigor
• Discusses the importance of a cost-effective drought plan for minimizing the adverse impacts of water shortages on public health, economic activity, and the environment
• Proposes a methodology for the analysis of water resource systems as well as designing and planning operational measures that would avoid or mitigate the effects of droughts
• Elucidates the importance of adopting a pro-active approach to reduce the worst consequences and promote the efficient use of water resources

Contents

Water Management in Mediterranean Regions Prone to Drought: The Jucar Basin Experience

• Current Spanish Legal Framework
• Droughts in the Júcar Basin Agency
• Indicators and Watch Alert Systems in the JBA
• Analysis of Drought Events in the JBA

Criteria for Marginal Water Treatment and Reuse Under Drought Conditions

• Potential Applications for Marginal Waters
• Issues in Marginal Waters Utilization
• Health Protection issues
• Nitrogen Yield Evaluation: Issues and Recommendations
• Wastewater Reuse System Monitoring: Issues and Recommendations
• Guidelines for the Reuse of Marginal Water for Ground Water Recharge
• Aquifer Characterization: Issues and Recommendations
• Recharge Techniques: Issues and Recommendations
• Human Health Protection: Issues and Recommendations
• Guidelines for Marginal Water Urban Reuse
• Guidelines for Marginal Water Industrial Reuse
• Cost Analysis for Marginal Water Treatment
• Development of a Web-Based Information System for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Strategies for the Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater

• Methods of Conjunctive Use
• Comparison between Artificial Recharge and Alternate Use
• Other Aspects and Possibilities
• Conjunctive Use Potential in Developing Countries
• Analysis of Conjunctive Use Systems
• Methods of Analysis

Optimization Model for the Conjuctive Use of Conventional and Marginal Waters

• Identification of the Optimization Algorithm
• The Optimization Package WARGI: Water Resources System
• Optimization Aided by Graphical Interface
• WARGI Graphical Interface
• Results Applying WARGI to Real Cases

Decision Support Systems for Drought Management

• Drought Planning
• Drought Decision Support
• Case Examples
• National Drought Management Planning

Methodology for the Analysis of Drought Mitigation Measures in Water Resource Systems

• Operative Drought
• Time Scales and the Space Factor in the Analysis of Operative Droughts
• Analysis, Characterization, and Monitoring of Operative Droughts
• Methodology of the Analysis
• The Aquatool Environment for the Development of Decision Support Systems
• Case Studies

Droughts and the European Water Framework Directive: Implications on Spanish River Basin Districts

• Droughts in the WFD
• Drought Planning Legal Framework in Spain
• Drought Management Tools
• Drought Indicators for the Spanish Territory
• The Júcar River Basin District

Water Reuse and Desalination at Cumunitat-Valenciana Region

• Legislative, Territorial, and Social Framework
• Water Situation of Comunitat-Valenciana
• Wastewater Reuse
• Desalination

Role of Decision Support System and Multicriteria Methods for the Assessment of Drought Mitigation Measures

• Assessment of Drought Mitigation Measures Trough a Multicriteria Approach
• Application of the Proposed Procedure for the Assessment of Drought Mitigation Measures to the Case Studies

Index

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