scholarly journals Towards a Set of Guidelines for the Development of Robust Water-sharing Systems

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Young
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Water Sharing ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Large Water ◽  
Context Specific

A framework for the review of existing water management systems and their transformation into robust water sharing systems is offered. The framework focuses on the need to develop efficient and equitable ways to manage water scarcity and plan to deal with the tensions scarcity imposes on any community. The framework identifies a way to bring together traditional community-managed systems with those typically used to allocate water to large water users and more commonly found in developed countries. So that use can be kept within sustainable limits while optimizing use, the framework includes mechanisms that enable the reallocation of water as demand and supply conditions change. Non-consumptive uses are recognized and environmental objectives can be delivered efficiently. Compliance with well-established accounting and hydro-logical concepts. Ways to increase the value of existing entitlements, encourage innovation and protect investments are included as options. It is recognized that the governance and legal arrangements necessary to underpin successful implantation are context specific.

scholarly journals Water Supply and Water Scarcity

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasileios A. Tzanakakis ◽  
Nikolaos V. Paranychianakis ◽  
Andreas N. Angelakis
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Rainwater Harvesting ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Water History ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Use Efficiency

This paper provides an overview of the Special Issue on water supply and water scarcity. The papers selected for publication include review papers on water history, on water management issues under water scarcity regimes, on rainwater harvesting, on water quality and degradation, and on climatic variability impacts on water resources. Overall, the issue underscores the need for a revised water management, especially in areas with demographic change and climate vulnerability towards sustainable and secure water supply. Moreover, general guidelines and possible solutions, such as the adoption of advanced technological solutions and practices that improve water use efficiency and the use of alternative (non-conventional) water resources are highlighted and discussed to address growing environmental and health issues and to reduce the emerging conflicts among water users.

scholarly journals The impacts of increasing water scarcity and the potential for water-related conflict in Lamu, Kenya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Maingey ◽  
Maggie Opondo ◽  
Daniel Olago ◽  
Gilbert Ouma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Management Mechanism ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract In the age of climate change, the efficient allocation, distribution and use of water raises complex issues for water management, with far-reaching and often contentious consequences. As water becomes scarcer, water-related tensions are imminent on different scales. It is the interplay of these tensions with a number of socioeconomic, political, environmental and cultural factors that determine the probability of conflict. Lamu found in the coastal part of Kenya, is a unique location in that access to water is already a major challenge. Combined with the negative impacts of climate change, and the on-going large infrastructural development in the region, Lamu is on the verge of a water crisis. As such, there is a need for research into the context specific factors that play a part in heightening the potential for water-related conflict amidst increasing water scarcity. The focus of this study was to identify and evaluate the context-specific factors that will amplify the potential for water-related conflict in Lamu. The findings suggest religion, migration, and poverty are factors that would heighten the potential for water-related conflict in the region amidst increasing water scarcity. The study recommends that these factors need to be addressed urgently and should be part of any water management mechanism in Lamu, in order to avoid water-related conflicts. Additionally, the findings imply that anticipating the stressors for water-related conflict in Lamu, will play a significant role in managing conflict and facilitating negotiations over the region's water resources.

scholarly journals Potable Water Scarcity and Options for Effective Provision in Limbe Municipality, Southwest Region, Cameroon

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Nong Buh ◽  
Roy Lyonga Mbua ◽  
Ukah Bonaventure Ngong
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Potable Water ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Potable Water Supply ◽  
Southwest Region ◽  
Joint Monitoring ◽  
Large Water ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Continuous potable water scarcities in Limbe municipality if not well manage and ensure a regular provision of it may lead to many disastrous consequences to the massive growing population of this municipality. Lack of safe drinking water is a severe crisis in Limbe and Cameroon due to poor management strategies employed by the water management bodies involved. The study investigated the implications of water scarcity in Limbe municipality and the options for effective provision of potable water. A questionnaire survey was carried out. About 300 questionnaires were administered in three localities of Limbe to investigate the present status of water scarcity and its impacts on the local communities. The results show an increasing rate of potable water scarcity in the municipality. About 51% of the respondents indicated that inadequate storage facilities are the main caused of water scarcity in the town. In contrast, 26% and 23% of the respondents indicated that inadequate technology and low level of education are other reasons contributing to potable water scarcity in Limbe municipality. Many people in the municipality depend on untreated water sources, resulting in the contraction of many diseases like dysentery and diarrhea as prime waterborne health risks. We suggest options like installing large water safety tanks in all the localities of Limbe municipality. Furthermore, implementing a joint monitoring team to ensure that effective potable water treatment and supply is being done and the bodies involved in water management like the Cameroon Water Utilities Corporation (CAMWATER) need to initiate a platform for multi-stakeholder dialogue, networking and social learning essentially for building trust on how to manage potable water supply in the municipality better.

The Water Management Mechanism Improvement in the Zone of Risked Land Use

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Katerina I. Ryzhova ◽  
Valerii N. Mandzyk ◽  
Andriy I. Holybkov
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Management System ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Domestic Capital

The peculiarities of forming an effective water management system in the area of risk agricultural land use are considered. The main tendencies of capital investments financing and current expenses for protection and rehabilitation of soil, underground and surface waters are analyzed. In addition, as the analysis shows, low investment attractiveness, especially in the melioration zone, does not contribute to the flow not only of foreign but also of domestic capital, which multiplier influences the slowdown in the rates of socio-economic functioning of settlements located in areas of melioration land concentration. It has been shown that best practices prove that investing in the functioning of land melioration is a major factor in improving the efficiency of agrarian production. That is why it has been recognized as one of the priority directions of the stable functioning of agrarian production. The developed countries use quite different forms of investment activities, and in the process of regulation of investment activity such countries use various measures that form favorable conditions for attracting both domestic and foreign capital. It is shown that the formation of effective management system is impossible without institutionalization of a wide spectrum of forms of partnership relations between different objects of functioning. The prospects for increasing the amount of land melioration financing are associated with the spread of cooperation processes between the state and the water users association regarding the operation of land melioration systems with the ability to combine budget financing with investments of private business entities, both domestic and foreign. The prospects of foreign experience regarding the investing in the functioning of agricultural land melioration are analyzed. The agricultural land melioration is the most important factor in improving the efficiency of agricultural production in Ukraine. It is shown that the reforming of irrigation systems management should be carried out on the basis of decentralization with the transfer of water management and water operating functions to water users on the basis of their association. Key words: association of water users, water resources, irrigated agriculture, investment, integrated management.

GROUNDWATER STATUS ASSESSMENT IN CONTEXT OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

2016 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Anna KUCZYŃSKA ◽  
Dorota PALAK-MAZUR ◽  
Anna KOSTKA
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Surface Waters ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystems ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Reporting Requirements ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Status Assessment ◽  
Groundwater Body

The accession of Poland to the European Union and implementation of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/WE) into the Polish legal system has significantly changed the course and scope of national water management and assessment of water resources. The concept of integrated and dynamic way of treating groundwater and surface waters and their position in the environment, emphasized in the WFD, has strengthened and enhanced the already applied procedures for groundwater monitoring and status assessment. These procedures aim at achieving sensibly justified and well-founded balance between environmental objectives defined for groundwater bo¬dies and water needs required by all types of water users. This required establishment of a new, holistic methods for assessing groundwater body status based on previous national experiences and new EU guidelines and requirements. The new methods for assessing groundwater body status in terms of its quality and quantity were developed and implemented by the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute in 2013. The project was commissioned by the Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection and financed by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. The methods accounts groundwater needs of priority water users through nine classification tests which investigate groundwater characteristics and dependencies between groundwater and its receptors, including surface waters and groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems. Each of nine classification tests can result in either good or poor status and the final groundwater body status assessment is a product of all tests, which means that a negative result of at least one test can decide of poor status of a given groundwater body.

INTEGRATED MEDICAL DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS REVIEW

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihor Pysmennyi
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
Mobile Network ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Drastic Increase

In recent years we’ve seen breakthrough research success in medicine and computer science enabled by novel technology advancements, data analyses capabilities and learning techniques. Despite this, quality care doesn’t have full cove­ rage even in developed countries and access to care is recognised as one of the biggest challenges to the global healthcare system. Bound with population growth in remote areas in developing regions, which lack skilled professionals and medical resources, as well as aging in developed countries this caused a strong need for increasing healthcare effectiveness. Enabled by development of cloud technologies, quick expansion of mobile network coverage and internet access Clinical Information Management Systems integrated with decision support systems, Telemedicine (inclu­ ding distributed Virtual Healthcare Teams and medical imaging), Mobile Healthcare, medical Internet of Things (mIoT), Consumer Health Informatics with personal intelligent health assistants, Health Information Exchanges and deep learning techniques for diagnostics and knowledge extraction are among the state-of-the-art solutions which are more or less successfully used for coping with the problem mentioned above. This paper reviews current situation with implementing these novel informational systems, analyses their advantages, drawbacks, implementation impediments and outcome effectiveness suggesting platform for empowering their integration and maximizing output of each module. Such solution will have a synergy effect and result in a drastic increase of medical resource utilization effectiveness, service quality and providing bigger and fuller coverage with less spending at the same time empowering knowledge exchange process and laying foundation for future development and innovations in the whole healthcare domain.

The Water in the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria De Poblet, Tarragona, Spain

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-267
Author(s):  
J.L. De la Peña ◽  
M. De la Peña ◽  
M. Salgot ◽  
Ll. Torcal
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Management System ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Water Management System ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Semiarid Conditions

The history and water-related features in the Poblet Cistercian Monastery, located in Tarragona province, Spain are described. The study is undertaken with the main purpose of obtaining data for the establishment of an integrated water management system inside the walls of the abbey, which is suffering water scarcity due to increasing demands and the prevalent semiarid conditions.

scholarly journals Temporal and Local Heterogeneities of Water Table Depth under Different Agricultural Water Management Conditions

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 2148
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Lafond ◽  
Silvio J. Gumiere ◽  
Virginie Vanlandeghem ◽  
Jacques Gallichand ◽  
Alain N. Rousseau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Table ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Sprinkler Irrigation ◽  
Water Table Depth ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Growing Seasons ◽  
Good Drainage

Integrated water management has become a priority for cropping systems where subirrigation is possible. Compared to conventional sprinkler irrigation, the controlling water table can lead to a substantial increase in yield and water use efficiency with less pumping energy requirements. Knowing the spatiotemporal distribution of water table depth (WTD) and soil properties should help perform intelligent, integrated water management. Observation wells were installed in cranberry fields with different water management systems: Bottom, with good drainage and controlled WTD management; Surface, with good drainage and sprinkler irrigation management; Natural, without drainage, or with imperfectly drained and conventional sprinkler irrigation. During the 2017–2020 growing seasons, WTD was monitored on an hourly basis, while precipitation was measured at each site. Multi-frequential periodogram analysis revealed a dominant periodic component of 40 days each year in WTD fluctuations for the Bottom and Surface systems; for the Natural system, periodicity was heterogeneous and ranged from 2 to 6 weeks. Temporal cross correlations with precipitation show that for almost all the sites, there is a 3 to 9 h lag before WTD rises; one exception is a subirrigation site. These results indicate that automatic water table management based on continuously updated knowledge could contribute to integrated water management systems, by using precipitation-based models to predict WTD.

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