FINANCIAL-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF DUTCH WATER MANAGEMENT POLICY

2002 ◽  
pp. 274-281
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
Management Policy

Systematic approaches in water management: Aquatic outlook and decision support systems combining monitoring, research, policy analysis and information technology

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. de Jong ◽  
J. T. van Buuren ◽  
J. P. A. Luiten
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Water Management Plans ◽  
Life On Earth

Sustained developments is the target of almost every modern water management policy. Sustainability is focused on human life and on the ecological quality of our environment. Both aspects are essential for life on earth. Within a river catchment area this means that well balanced relations have to be laid between human activities and ecological aspects in the involved areas. Policy analysis is especially looking for the most efficient way to analyse and to overcome bottlenecks. In The Netherlands project “The Aquatic Outlook” all these elements are worked out in a nationwide scale, providing the scientific base and policy analysis from which future water management plans can be derived.

scholarly journals Science Informed Policies for Managing Water

Hydrology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Loucks
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Multiple Impacts ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Science Policy Interface ◽  
Management Policies

Water resource management policies impact how water supplies are protected, collected, stored, treated, distributed, and allocated among multiple users and purposes. Water resource policies influence the decisions made regarding the siting, design, and operation of infrastructure needed to achieve the underlying goals of these policies. Water management policies vary by region depending on particular hydrologic, economic, environmental, and social conditions, but in all cases they will have multiple impacts affecting these conditions. Science can provide estimates of various economic, ecologic, environmental, and even social impacts of alternative policies, impacts that determine how effective any particular policy may be. These impact estimates can be used to compare and evaluate alternative policies in the search for identifying the best ones to implement. Among all scientists providing inputs to policy making processes are analysts who develop and apply models that provide these estimated impacts and, possibly, their probabilities of occurrence. However, just producing them is not a guarantee that they will be considered by policy makers. This paper reviews various aspects of the science-policy interface and factors that can influence what information policy makers need from scientists. This paper suggests some ways scientists and analysts can contribute to and inform those making water management policy decisions. Brief descriptions of some water management policy making examples illustrate some successes and failures of science informing and influencing policy.

scholarly journals Leveraging environmental flows to reform water management policy: Lessons learned from the 2014 Colorado River Delta pulse flow

2017 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 683-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eloise Kendy ◽  
Karl W. Flessa ◽  
Karen J. Schlatter ◽  
Carlos A. de la Parra ◽  
Osvel M. Hinojosa Huerta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Colorado River ◽  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Colorado River Delta ◽  
Pulse Flow

WATER POLICY STRATEGY OF UKRAINE: PROSPECTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Khvesyk ◽  
Lyudmila Levkovska ◽  
Valeriy Mandzyk
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Sustainable Water Management ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Water Strategy ◽  
Territorial Water

The article is devoted to the development of theoretical approaches to the formation and implementation of the strategy of water policy of Ukraine in the context of climate change. As a result of the conducted research, it is proved that because of influence of various external factors there are changes of basic imperatives of functioning of modern systems of management of water resources. The need to consider these changes by improving the strategic documents that define the priorities and principles of national water management policy is substantiated. It is established that one of the main reasons for the lack of water of good quality is its low value compared to other natural resources. This leads to a lack of legal, organizational, and financial and economic grounds for ensuring the payback of water and water-dependent ecosystem services, which is the reason for lack of funds and relevant work to improve and restore environmental and hydro morphological characteristics of reservoirs and repair and modernization of existing hydraulic structures. In this regard, emphasis is placed on the need to improve methods of economic regulation and the development of mechanisms and tools for financial support of sustainable water management. In the context of the above, it is proposed to include in the list of main tasks of the draft Water Strategy of Ukraine two groups of economic levers to increase the financial base of investment support for sustainable water management. The first group is aimed at improving the rent regulation of special use of water resources and provides for raising standards for unauthorized groundwater production, for companies that produce beverages and sell bottled drinking water, as well as limiting various benefits and preferences when paying special water use fees. The second - to change the system of water resources management, the development of institutional and legal support for their use in a globalized market environment, the implementation of modern instruments of financial and economic support for the formation of territorial water resources on a corporate basis.

Calibration of a reinforcement learning method with the ClimEx large ensemble and a weather generator for water management 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Dallaire ◽  
Richard Arsenault ◽  
Pascal Côté ◽  
Kenjy Demeester
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Hydrological Model ◽  
Weather Generator ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Large Ensemble ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Hydropower System

<p>Hydropower is a renewable source of energy that relies on efficient water planning and management. As the behavior of this natural resource is difficult to predict, water managers therefore use methods to help the decision-making process. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been shown to be a potentially effective approach to overcome the limitations of the Stochastic Dynamic Programming (SDP) method that is commonly used for water management. However, convergence to a robust and efficient operating policy from RL methods requires large amounts of data, while long-term historical data is not always available. The objective of this study consists in using tools to generate long-term hydrological series to obtain an efficient parameterization of the management policy. This presentation introduces a comparison of calibration datasets used in a RL method for the optimal control of a hydropower system. This method aims to find a feedback policy that maximizes the production of a hydropower system over a mid-term horizon. Three streamflow datasets are compared on a real hydropower system for RL calibration: 1) the historical streamflow (35 years), 2) streamflow simulated by a hydrological model driven by a high-resolution large-ensemble climate model data (3500 years) from the ClimEx project, and 3) streamflow simulated by a hydrological model driven by climate data generated with a stochastic weather generator (5000 years). The GR4J hydrological model is employed for the hydrologic modelling aspect of the work. The reinforcement learning method is applied on the Lac-Saint-Jean water resources system in Quebec (Canada), where the hydrological regime is snowmelt-dominated. A bootstrapping method where multiple calibration and validation sets were resampled is used to conduct a robust statistical analysis for comparing the methods’ performance. The performance of the calibrated management policy is evaluated with respect to the operational constraints of the system as well as the overall energy production. Preliminary results show that is possible to achieve effective management policies by using tools to generate long-term hydrological series to feed a RL method.</p>

Beneficial use of associated water in the Queensland coal seam gas industry

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 686
Author(s):  
Cristian Purtill
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Beneficial Use ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Water Management Strategy

The Queensland Government has developed an associated water management policy that, among other things, strives to maximise the beneficial use of associated water derived from Queensland’s burgeoning coal seam gas industry. The Department of Infrastructure and Planning reports that domestic gas production alone (i.e. without an export LNG market) will produce on average 25 GL per annum in the next 25 years. Most of this water has sufficiently high total dissolved solids and other water quality issues to require some form of treatment prior to use. Clearly, the relatively large volumes of water present both challenges and opportunities to the communities in which the CSG industry is developing. In line with the philosophy of beneficial use of associated water, Santos has developed a portfolio of options within its associated water management strategy and plans for its Arcadia Valley, Fairview and Roma tenements. The strategy seeks to: provide enduring value for the community; maximise benefits while minimising the environmental footprint; provide a range of alternatives to avoid single-mode failure; use scalable options in response to uncertainty; deploy demonstrated technologies; and, meet and exceed all regulatory requirements. This paper will set some context around the broader CSG industry’s associated water challenges, and identify what parameters must be considered in arriving at beneficial uses for the water. The paper then explores some of Santos’ approaches to associated water management.

scholarly journals A Water Quality Assessment Tool for Decision Making, Based on Widely Used Water Quality Indices

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Mavromatidou Charoula ◽  
Trikilidou Eleni ◽  
Samiotis Georgios ◽  
Pekridis George ◽  
Lefteri Lefteris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Water Quality Assessment ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Expert’S Opinion ◽  
First Results

Cross border areas face common challenges on water management, such as monitoring water demands and quality, because they share a common water basin for covering their water needs. This paper presents the first results of a new, accurate, sensitive and functional tool for assessing water quality, taking under consideration legislation and expert’s opinion, created in frame of the SAVE-WATER, Interreg IPA II Cross-border Cooperation Programme Greece-Albania 2014-2020. The project addresses the open problems and challenges by promoting a transnational common strategy for drinking water management and a shared management policy among three Greek and two Albanian cross border regions.

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