scholarly journals Relational quality and uncertainty in common pool water management: an exploratory lab experiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Brugnach ◽  
Sander de Waard ◽  
Dimitri Dubois ◽  
Stefano Farolfi
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Relational Quality ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Pool Water ◽  
Management Scenario ◽  
Decision Choices

AbstractIf there is one certainty for the sustainable management of water resources is that facing uncertainty is an unavoidable matter. A concern that, in addition to the best available scientific knowledge and models, requires deep insights about the socio relational processes that underlie decision-making. Our objective here is to better understand if and how the socio relational environment in which decisions are made shapes decision-making under uncertainty in common pool water resource management. Our goal is twofold: methodological and analytical. It consists in designing experiments for carrying out uncertainty analysis to explore the influence that the relationships established among decision actors have in making decision choices under uncertainty in management processes. To this end, we developed one experimental game protocol, representing a typical water management scenario: irrigation, which we use to test two different conjectures about the combined effects of uncertainty and relationships. In doing so, we play close attention to the quality of relationships developed among players (acting as water managers), and how these relationships are structured and organized. Initial tests confirmed the importance that the relationships established among players have for coping with uncertainty in managing water resources.

Operationalising uncertainty in data and models for integrated water resources management

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.W. Blind ◽  
J.C. Refsgaard
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Broad Objective ◽  
Parameter Values

Key sources of uncertainty of importance for water resources management are (1) uncertainty in data; (2) uncertainty related to hydrological models (parameter values, model technique, model structure); and (3) uncertainty related to the context and the framing of the decision-making process. The European funded project ‘Harmonised techniques and representative river basin data for assessment and use of uncertainty information in integrated water management (HarmoniRiB)’ has resulted in a range of tools and methods to assess such uncertainties, focusing on items (1) and (2). The project also engaged in a number of discussions surrounding uncertainty and risk assessment in support of decision-making in water management. Based on the project's results and experiences, and on the subsequent discussions a number of conclusions can be drawn on the future needs for successful adoption of uncertainty analysis in decision support. These conclusions range from additional scientific research on specific uncertainties, dedicated guidelines for operational use to capacity building at all levels. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on these conclusions and anchoring them in the broad objective of making uncertainty and risk assessment an essential and natural part in future decision-making processes.

scholarly journals Performance evaluation of elitist-mutated multi-objective particle swarm optimization for integrated water resources management

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Janga Reddy ◽  
D. Nagesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Pareto Optimal ◽  
Pareto Optimal Solutions ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Multi Objective

Optimal allocation of water resources for various stakeholders often involves considerable complexity with several conflicting goals, which often leads to multi-objective optimization. In aid of effective decision-making to the water managers, apart from developing effective multi-objective mathematical models, there is a greater necessity of providing efficient Pareto optimal solutions to the real world problems. This study proposes a swarm-intelligence-based multi-objective technique, namely the elitist-mutated multi-objective particle swarm optimization technique (EM-MOPSO), for arriving at efficient Pareto optimal solutions to the multi-objective water resource management problems. The EM-MOPSO technique is applied to a case study of the multi-objective reservoir operation problem. The model performance is evaluated by comparing with results of a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) model, and it is found that the EM-MOPSO method results in better performance. The developed method can be used as an effective aid for multi-objective decision-making in integrated water resource management.

scholarly journals Improving water governance in New Zealand: stakeholder views of catchment management processes and plans

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fenemor ◽  
Diarmuid Neilan ◽  
Will Allen ◽  
Shona Russell
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Stakeholder Views ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Water governance refers to the institutions, legislation and decision-making processes applied to develop and manage water resources. As pressures on water resources increase there has been a realisation that technocratically-driven water management has not achieved desired sustainability outcomes. Attention must be focused not only on better scientific understanding of water and its values and uses, but also on what constitutes good water governance.

Water Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 387-400
Author(s):  
Rajan Janardhanan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
The World

The world faces an unprecedented crisis in water resources management, with profound implications for global food security, protection of human health, and maintenance of all ecosystems on Earth. Large uncertainties still plague quantitative assessments of climate change impacts and water resource management, but what is known for certain is that the climate is changing and that it will have an effect on water resources. Therefore, increased efforts will be needed to plan and manage water supplies in the future through increased monitoring and understanding of the interrelationships between population size, climate change, and water availability. The focus of water management is gradually shifting from developing new water sources to using existing water sources more effectively and efficiently. The world needs policy change in water management. Respect for water resources and their value is the starting point of deliberations. Governments have the essential water management function: to protect and allocate water resources to allow both individual and collective interests to benefit from water. Societies must also lead in understanding, provisioning for mitigating the impact of disasters, ranging from extreme droughts to unprecedented floods, caused by climate change and poor management of water and land. Public funds will likely remain the main source of water sectoral funding. It is up to governments to invest wisely to enhance the crucial role that water has for social and economic development in a country. Integrated water resource management strategy is accepted as a global model for achieving the objective of a sustainable water management system.

scholarly journals Decision support water management a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 309 ◽  
pp. 01212
Author(s):  
S. VenkatCharyulu ◽  
G.K. Viswanadh
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Effective Water

Decision support water. Management (DSWM) is an approach to water development and water management, for the best water management framework. In the field of water management for watter storage, and preservation of land is very important criteria which is linked with various communities involvement, economical issues and environmental issues. DSWM. water resources needed extensive advance technology with reliable activity. For this purpose in this paper it need to analyse the various volume, quality and quantity parameters and other enhance model usage are adopted to maintain the effective water resource management.. Parameters collect the management tools for efficient management of water resources under varied local situations. In This paper discussed some of the analytical management techniques and development decision support water management system as a framework for decision makers to have reliable decisions for water management practises. This paper includes overall DSWM functions and their highlights to achieve the effective water management.

scholarly journals Patterns of Water Use in California

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Helly ◽  
◽  
Daniel Cayan ◽  
Thomas Corringham ◽  
Jennifer Stricklin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Balance ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Scale Data

Recent patterns of water use and supply in California are presented based on a new data set compiled from the California Department of Water Resources water balance data for 2002 through 2016. The water use and supply include surface water and groundwater, although groundwater reporting has been incomplete. These data are used to support the Water Plan released every 3 to 5 years and are the most comprehensive and finest spatial- and temporal-scale data set for California water resources. First, using the Bay–Delta watershed as a case example, we show that recent fluctuations in water use are highly correlated with variations in precipitation. Developed water supplies and use show these fluctuations, but they are modified by reservoir inflows and releases, groundwater supplies, and Delta outflows. Second, although the annually precipitated water supply in the Bay–Delta varies by about 30%, the developed water supply damps this considerably. The water management system maintained nearly constant agricultural water use even in periods of intense drought, with year-to-year variation of about 7%. Variability in urban water use is higher (∼20%), largely from conservation during periods of drought. Finally, this information can help improve water resource management because it connects regional-scale data to meaningful policy decision-making at county and sub-county levels. At a time when water policy and management are being re-evaluated across the American West in the light of changing climate, decision-making informed by science and data is urgently needed. The statewide water balance data provide the means to establish a consistent, quantitative framework for water resource analysis throughout the state.

scholarly journals River Forecast Application for Water Management: Oil and Water?

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Werner ◽  
Kristen Averyt ◽  
Gigi Owen
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Decision Support Systems ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Reservoir Operations ◽  
Observed Information ◽  
Probabilistic Forecasts ◽  
Study Participants

Abstract Managing water resources generally and managing reservoir operations specifically have been touted as opportunities for applying forecasts to improve decision making. Previous studies have shown that the application of forecasts into water management is not pervasive. This study uses a scenario-based approach to explore whether and how people implement forecast information into reservoir operations decisions in a workshop setting. Although it was found that participants do utilize both forecast and observed information, they generally do not utilize probabilistic forecast information in a manner to appropriately minimize risks associated with the tail end of the forecast distribution. This study found strong tendencies for participants to wait for observed information, as opposed to forecast information, before making decisions. In addition, study participants tended to make decisions based on median forecast values instead of considering forecast probability. These findings support the development of quantitative decision support systems to optimally utilize probabilistic forecasts as well as for forecast agencies such as NOAA/NWS to continue investments in work to better understand contexts and environments where forecasts are used or have the potential for use in supporting water management decisions.

scholarly journals Perspektif Konstitusional Kedudukan Negara dan Swasta dalam Pengelolaan Sumber Daya Air Menurut UUD 1945

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Helmi Kasim ◽  
Titis Anindyajati
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
State Management

This research discusses the constitutional perspective of water resources management and its relation to the position of the state and the private sector in the management of water resources. This research examines the decision of the Constitutional Court in the judicial review of Law No. 7 of 2004 on Water Resources. There are two issues discussed in these studies namely (i) what is the constitutional perspective of water resource management and (ii) what is the position of the state and the private sector in water resources management? This research uses normative law research. The results showed that there are two constitutional perspectives in water resources management which are the perspective of control by the state under Article 33 paragraph (3) and the perspective of Human Rights perspective based on Article 28H of the 1945 Constitution. Based on the perspective of control  by the state, management of water resources should be controlled by the state from upstream to downstream. The state should take control of water resources  and establish distribution channels to meet the needs of the citizens on the water. From a human rights perspective, the state is obliged to protect, promote and fulfill the right  to water.  This obligation cannot be left to the private sector especially in water management based on its primary function. Therefore, the overall water management should be done by the state through the State Owned Enterprises or Regional Owned Enterprises. In fact, the monopoly of water management is a policy option that can be taken by the state. On the other hand, the private sector can take a part to commercialize water based on the use of water in its secondary function for industrial use through licensing mechanism. The study concluded that the state has an obligation to meet the citizens’ rights to water in order to meet the needs of a decent life based on primary functions of water. Secondary functions can be operated by private sectors.

Smart GIS-Based Water Information System

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-205
Author(s):  
Ankur Dumka ◽  
Poonam Kainthura ◽  
Alaknanda Ashok
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Natural Water ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Suitable Location

Water management is one of the important aspects and a matter of concern for the current world. Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the important and effective tools that can be used for storing, management, and display of spatial data for water resource management. This chapter primarily focusses on water management. Managing of water resources has become a challenging task these days. There are many natural water resources available on Earth, but correct information about these resources is required. This chapter focuses on a collaborative, localized system capable of answering user queries. The system will work on GIS platform. The system will be beneficial for local governments for planning and management purpose by finding suitable location for the water resources by means of a GIS-based tool.

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