Impact of Fragile Water Management Strategies and Mitigation-A Case Study of Pune City, India

Abstract The entry into force of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 October 2000 established a new model for the management and protection of surface water and groundwater in Europe. In this sense, a thorough knowledge of the basins is an essential step in achieving this European objective. The utility of integrative decision support systems (DSS) for decision-making in complex systems and multiple objectives allows decision-makers to identify characteristics and improve water management in a basin. In this research, hydrological and water management resource models have been combined, with the assistance of the DSS AQUATOOL, with the aim of deepening the consideration of losses by evaporation of reservoirs for a better design of the basin management rules. The case study treated is an Andalusian basin of the Atlantic zone (Spain). At the same time, different management strategies are analysed based on the optimization of the available resources by means of the conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater.

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Integrated assessment of water management strategies: framework and case study

Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation ◽

10.36334/modsim.2013.k8.moglia ◽

2013 ◽

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Integrated Assessment ◽

Management Strategies

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Effects of Water Management Strategies on Water Balance in a Water Scarce Region: A Case Study in Beijing by a Holistic Model

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su8080749 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (8) ◽

pp. 749 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Zhigong Peng ◽

Baozhong Zhang ◽

Xueliang Cai ◽

Lei Wang

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Water Balance ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Holistic Model ◽

Water Scarce

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Reconstructed natural runoff suggests imbalance in water scarcity between upstream and downstream regions of China's river basins

10.5194/hess-2018-364 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Xinyao Zhou ◽

Yonghui Yang ◽

Zhuping Sheng

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Surface Water ◽

Water Scarcity ◽

North China ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Water Shortage ◽

Water Withdrawal ◽

Management Policy ◽

Water Accessibility

Abstract. The increasing conflicts for water resources appeal for chronological insight into the imbalance water scarcity between upstream and downstream regions. While the changes of water scarcity in whole basins have been widely analysed, the divergent development of water scarcity between upstream and downstream regions received little concern. Here non-anthropologically intervened runoff (natural runoff) was first reconstructed in China's 67 basins for the period 1961–2010 using the Fu–Budyko framework and then systematically evaluated in comparison with the observed data. Divergent changes in water scarcity, including water stress and water shortage, between upstream and downstream regions were analyzed for the period of 1980s–2000s. The results showed that surface water withdrawal rapidly increased from 140.8 billion m3 (9 % of natural runoff) in 1980s to 189.7 billion m3 (14 %) in 2000s, with 73 % increase occurring in North China (North of the Yangtze River). This led to severe water scarcity of approximately 0.4 billion people (29 % of population) in 2000s in comparison with only ~ 0.2 billion people (17 %) in the 1980s, with all increase of water scarcity-threaten population in North China. Since 1990s, the increase of upstream water withdrawal came along with the decrease of downstream surface water availability in most northern basins, leading to slower increase in upstream water scarcity and faster increase in downstream water scarcity. Even though restrict water management policy restrained upstream surface water withdrawal in some northern basins over latest decade, the effect of such a reduction in upstream surface water withdrawal was too little to stop the continued decline in downstream surface water accessibility. Meanwhile, semi-arid/humid basins are following in the footsteps of arid basins by rapidly increasing upstream surface water withdrawal. The Chinese case study provides an all-round observation of the imbalance upstream–downstream development in water scarcity, as well as the experiences and lessons from different water management strategies.

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The study water table fluctuation in tidal lowland for developing agricultural water management strategies: (A case study for corn cultivation after rice)

2010 International Conference on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering ◽

10.1109/iccceng.2010.5560404 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. S. Imanudin ◽

E. Armanto ◽

R. H. Susant ◽

S. M. Bernas

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Water Table ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Agricultural Water ◽

Agricultural Water Management ◽

Water Table Fluctuation

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Design for Autonomy

Environmental and Agricultural Informatics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9621-9.ch018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 388-403

Author(s):

Carey Clouse

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Adaptive Design ◽

Management Strategies ◽

North India ◽

Cultural Consciousness ◽

Adaptive Planning ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Response To Water

This chapter describes one series of climate-adaptive design innovations found in Ladakh, north India. Five different water management techniques chart the region's unique and highly specialized response to water scarcity, and in so doing highlight important lessons for climate-adaptive planning elsewhere. In this case study, the dispersed, community-based water management strategies practiced in Ladakh suggest a level of design thinking that supports environmental stewardship, economic autonomy, cultural consciousness and social cohesion.

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Design for Autonomy

Economic Modeling, Analysis, and Policy for Sustainability - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0094-0.ch013 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 250-265 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Carey Clouse

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Adaptive Design ◽

Management Strategies ◽

North India ◽

Cultural Consciousness ◽

Adaptive Planning ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Response To Water

This chapter describes one series of climate-adaptive design innovations found in Ladakh, north India. Five different water management techniques chart the region's unique and highly specialized response to water scarcity, and in so doing highlight important lessons for climate-adaptive planning elsewhere. In this case study, the dispersed, community-based water management strategies practiced in Ladakh suggest a level of design thinking that supports environmental stewardship, economic autonomy, cultural consciousness and social cohesion.

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