Integrated Water Resources Management: STRIVER Efforts to Assess the Current Status and Future Possibilities in Four River Basins

2011 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Per Stålnacke ◽  
Geoffrey D. Gooch ◽  
Udaya Sekhar Nagothu ◽  
Ingrid Nesheim ◽  
Line J. Barkved ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Resources Management

scholarly journals Twinning European and South Asian river basins to enhance capacity and implement adaptive integrated water resources management approaches – results from the EC-project BRAHMATWINN

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.-A. Flügel
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Climate Modelling ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Governance Analysis ◽  
Management Approaches

Abstract. The EC-project BRAHMATWINN was carrying out a harmonised integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach as addressed by the European Water Initiative (EWI) in headwater river systems of alpine mountain massifs of the twinning Upper Danube River Basin (UDRB) and the Upper Brahmaputra River Basins (UBRB) in Europe and Southeast Asia respectively. Social and natural scientists in cooperation with water law experts and local stakeholders produced the project outcomes presented in Chapter 2 till Chapter 10 of this publication. BRAHMATWINN applied a holistic approach towards IWRM comprising climate modelling, socio-economic and governance analysis and concepts together with methods and integrated tools of applied Geoinformatics. A detailed description of the deliverables produced by the BRAHMATWINN project is published on the project homepage http://www.brahmatwinn.uni-jena.de.

Institutional and legal arrangements in the Nile river basin: suggestions to improve the current situation toward adaptive integrated water resources management

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 2031-2040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Mohamed El Hassan Abdalla
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Nile River ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Nile River Basin

A comparative study was conducted in this work in order to investigate the current situation in the Nile river basin (NRB) regarding the institutional and legal arrangements needed to support the adaptive integrated water resources management (AIWRM) strategy. Two similar river basins were selected to achieve this comparison and to introduce suggestions to reform the current situation in the basin. Before that, the ideal situation is investigated to be as a yardstick for the desired situation. The study indicated that the necessary AIWRM criteria may include regulatory as well as implementation organizations that support shared-vision reaching with its all necessary features (cooperation, stakeholders' participation, subsidiarity, and information and knowledge exchange). Thus the main features of the desired situations regarding AIWRM in river basins are stakeholders' participation, learning-driven ability, quick response to risks and uncertainties, and finally a legal framework that could support these criteria. Although the AIWRM criteria seem to be satisfied in NRB, the basin lacks the necessary regulatory institutions as well as the legal framework. According to this, this study recommends to reform the current situation in NRB by creating regulator institutions (policy and decision making level) as well a legal framework to legitimate them.

Water resources management in Greece: current status and prospective outlook

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 267-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Angelakis ◽  
E. Diamadopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Water Demand ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Reclaimed Wastewater ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
Precipitation Water ◽  
Pollution Loads

The basic aim of this paper is to present the existing conditions and problems of water resources management in Greece. Water demand has increased tremendously over the past 30 years. Despite adequate precipitation, water imbalance is often experienced, due to temporal and regional variations of the precipitation, the increased water demand during the summer months and the difficulty of transporting water due to the mountainous terrain. Integration of reclaimed wastewater originating from the wastewater treatment plant effluents into the water resources management is proposed. This plan exhibits the potential for reducing the pollution loads entering sea or inland waters, while at the same time providing water for irrigation.

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