Business Plan,Business Ideas,Advanced Energy,High Technology,Healthy Diets,Healthy Foods,Games Guides,Games Cheats,Travel Guides,Travel Tips,Study Skills,Study Tips,Health Tips,Health Guides,Jewelry Stores,Jewellery UK Online,Digital Camera Reviews,Digital Camera Buying Guide
The WaterStrategyMan Project
 Home   Meetings & Workshops   Deliverables   Publications   The WSM DSS   Links 
 
Login 


 

This document presents the work undertaken in the Case study regions in Task 8.3 of the WaterStrategyMan Project, “Generation of Coherent Water Management Scenarios”. The purpose of the task is to build water management scenarios to evaluate alternative allocation options of water resources in the Case Studies. The scenarios are based on specific supply interventions or demand side actions, and assess their effect on the current and future matching of water demand, in a comparison with the base case using user-defined criteria set by the water users, regulators and decision makers.

The main objectives of scenario analysis were to determine the options that could be effective in meeting the targets of each Case Study analysis, and estimate their potential extent, cost and environmental impact. The Deliverable presents the findings of this assessment in the following Case Studies:

  • Paros Island, Greece,
  • Belice Basin, Italy,
  • Limassol Region, Cyprus,
  • Tel Aviv Region, Israel,
  • Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, and
  • Ribeiras do Algarve, Portugal

The outcomes of the scenario analysis are used for the formulation of appropriate Water Management Strategies for the Case Study Regions in the next stage of the Project.

PDF Version - File size 13.7 MB

 

 

Deliverable 19 and the corresponding publishable report, Deliverable 21.6, provide Guidelines for Water Management methods and options examined in the process of development of suitable water management strategies for water deficient regions. Guidelines are given as a set of instructions that analyze a given strategy into actions required within the selected water management options, set within a suitable but flexible time framework. The document aims at enabling the dissemination of the Project results, by providing a step-by-step analysis of the specific options to be used within the framework of a strategy and their specifications (relative costs,duration, and project lifetime). Case Study regional experiences in the application of these options have been included, in order to provide input based on hands-on experience.

PDF Version - File size 3.0 MB 

 

 

This volume on Methodologies for Water Management is based on a thorough investigation of fifteen regions in the Mediterranean and reviews some of the concepts and methods that are useful for river basin management. It is organised in the following manner: Chapter 1 summarises models for the assessment and forecasting of water availability and demand, taking into account temporal and spatial variability and water shortage conditions. The aim of Chapter 2 is to present a methodological approach for the estimation of financial, resource and environmental costs associated with water management interventions and uses. The different sections of this chapter analyse the theoretical background for the estimation of the different components of the cost and propose a simplified, easy-to-implement approach for their computation. Chapter 3 outlines different methods for MCDM in water resources management and describes basic requirements for indicators to “measure” the achievement of a given objective in the planning process. Finally, data requirements, structuring approaches and the most commonly used indicators in water resources management are presented in Chapter 4.

PDF Version - File size 1.7 MB

 

 

Deliverable 21.4 presents the Decision Support System developed in the framework of the WaterStrategyMan project. The WSM DSS was functional to the analysis of the dominant and shifting paradigm options and of their quantitative, qualitative and economic impacts in the selected regional water resource systems. The primary aim was to develop a tool, able to simulate the behaviour of water resource systems under different scenarios of water availability and demand, and including a module for simulating and evaluating alternative water management strategies. Its implementation was preceded by a comprehensive review of existing suitable methodologies and models for water resources and an analysis of their strong and weak points led to the definition of the present architecture of the DSS.

The Deliverable is structured in two parts: Part I presents the principles, concepts and methodology of the WaterStrategyMan DSS, while Part II is a comprehensive review of existing tools for water management and planning.

PDF Version - File size 6.2 MB

 


 
 

 
 

WSM - Developing Strategies for Regulating and Managing Water Resources and Demand in Water Deficient Regions