Tensions in water management: Dutch tradition and European policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 105-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Ravesteijn ◽  
O. Kroesen
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Mutual Adaptation ◽  
First Results ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Water Problems

Present-day worldwide water problems require new management tools and sustainable system innovations. At Delft University of Technology research is being carried out into water resources and management development aimed at forming such tools and innovations, focused on Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM). One of the case-studies deals with Dutch water management and technology in the context of European IRBM in the form of the 2000 Water Frame Directive. The Netherlands experience many water problems and European IRBM could bring help by offering a framework for both international cooperation and technological innovations. To work as an adequate management tool European IRBM should be tailored to the Dutch water tradition, which recently culminated in Integrated Water Management. Both approaches are in some respects contradicting. Europe pursues, for example, centralized control; while the Dutch have their strongly water boards based decentralized administration. The tensions between both approaches require mutual adaptation, for which the concept of subsidiarity might offer points of departure. This paper describes the first results of the case-research into Dutch water management and technology in the context of Europe as well as the backgrounds and the set-up of the research as a whole.

Application of models in water management in the Netherlands: past, present and future

1999 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. van Waveren
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
First Results ◽  
Standard Framework

For about 20 years models have been used on a large scale in the water management of The Netherlands. Today models are indispensable in modern water management. However, while on one hand the application of models in water management still increases, on the other hand the appreciation of policy makers for models decreases, especially in the Dutch national policy. One has to look very carefully to recognise the policy analysis by models in the policy documents, although the number of used models and the number of calculations was larger than ever before. Summarised it may be stated that the application of models is facing some serious problems. Especially the efficiency must increase. Together with the coming, new questions in water management, the involved participants in integrated water management are forced to join forces in the development and application of models. Therefore in The Netherlands a Standard Framework discussion started between the involved participators. The first results are very promising. Looking at the future it can be concluded that the next generation of models to be built for the fifth National Policy Document on Water Management, will not just be a model system of the national government, but a system of all involved participants in Dutch water management.

Operational water quantity management in a river basin

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Morgenschweis ◽  
T. Brudy-Zippelius ◽  
J. Ihringer
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Model System ◽  
Water Quantity ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Catchment Basin ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Water Resources Systems ◽  
First Results

The real-time water quantity management of complex water resources systems can be successfully supported by mathematical models. Since there were no models available for integrated water management on the catchment scale, a generally applicable model system for quantitative water management has been developed and adapted to the watershed of the River Ruhr in Germany. The first results attained with this model system in the Ruhr catchment basin show that it is a powerful tool for operational water quantity management and is able to simulate a differentially structured watershed with high anthropogenic impacts. The use of this model has enabled Ruhrverband to make crucial improvements and increase the objectivity of operational water quantity management.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Improving Water Management of Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1546-1556
Author(s):  
Mulat Asmamaw ◽  
Ahmed Kurunc
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Smallholder Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Water ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Irrigation Development ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Crucial Part

The purpose of this review is to compile the previous, current, and upcoming trends of water management and irrigation program development to raise crop production and ensure smallholder food security in Ethiopia. Integrated water management and irrigation development have been suggested to be a fundamental crucial part in decreasing food scarcity and alleviating poverty. Several organizations of irrigation schemes in Ethiopia have very weak institutional set up with limited financial and technical capacities and poor performance. Also, the existing performance of agricultural water development is not meaningfully contributing to the national economy of the country comparing to rain-fed farming.

scholarly journals Integrated Water Resources Management in Federations: The Examples of Brazil and Switzerland

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1914
Author(s):  
Graziele Muniz Miranda ◽  
Emmanuel Reynard
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Institutional Challenges

International water institutions worldwide consider integrated water resources management (IWRM) to be the most sustainable way to manage water. Governments have modified their legal and institutional framework in order to apply integrated water management tools in the river basin. Institutional challenges are common in federations due to complex power sharing at national and subnational levels. This article discusses the implementation of the hegemonic model of IWRM in federations, based on a review of the literature for two different federal countries: Brazil and Switzerland. Due to the centralized character of Brazilian federalism, adjustments made in recent decades aimed to adapt the water management model through a hegemonic approach of participation and decentralization, shaped by international experiences and institutions. Some challenges concern vertical interplay, concerning coordination between levels and effective implementation of decentralization and participation. In contrast, Switzerland has a non-hegemonic model of water management, which is varied and fragmented throughout the country. As management is decided and applied locally, the main challenge concerns horizontal interplay, with regionalization and coordination of water uses.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Remote Sensing-Based Irrigation Water Accounting at River Basin District Management Scale

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 3187
Author(s):  
Jesús Garrido-Rubio ◽  
Alfonso Calera ◽  
Irene Arellano ◽  
Mario Belmonte ◽  
Lorena Fraile ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Irrigation Water ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Water Abstraction ◽  
Surface Areas ◽  
Water Accounting

The Water Framework Directive in Europe requires extending metering and water abstraction controls to accurately satisfy the necessary water resource requirements. However, in situ measurement instruments are inappropriate for large irrigation surface areas, considering the high investment and maintenance service costs. In this study, Remote Sensing-based Irrigation Water Accounting (RS-IWA) (previously evaluated for commercial plots, water user associations, and groundwater water management scales) was applied to over 11 Spanish river basin districts during the period of 2014–2018. Using the FAO56 methodology and incorporating remote sensing basal crop coefficient time series to simulate the Remote Sensing-based Soil Water Balance (RS-SWB), we were able to provide spatially and temporally distributed net irrigation requirements. The results were evaluated against the irrigation water demands estimated by the Hydrological Planning Offices and published in the River Basin Management Plans applying the same spatial (Agricultural Demand Units and Exploitation Systems) and temporal (annual and monthly) water management scales used by these public water managers, ultimately returning ranges of agreement (r2 and dr) (Willmott refined index) of 0.79 and 0.99, respectively. Thus, this paper presents an operational tool for providing updated spatio-temporal maps of RS-IWA over large and diverse irrigation surface areas, which is ready to serve as a complementary irrigation water monitoring and management tool.

MODERN HYDROGRAPHIC AND WATER MANAGEMENT ZONING OF UKRAINE’S TERRITORY – IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WFD-2000/60/EC

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.K. Khilchevskyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
River Basins ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Main Function ◽  
River Basin Management Plans ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Sea Coast

In contrast to the hydrological and hydrochemical zoning, hydrographic and water management zoning of Ukraine (2016) was created on a basin basis, taking into account the boundaries of river basins, and not physiographic zoning. The main function of hydrographic and water management zoning is water management. Primary is hydrographic zoning, and water management - based on it. The description of modern hydrographic zoning of the territory of Ukraine, approved in 2016 by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and included in the Water Code of Ukraine is given. Hydrographic zoning is carried out for the development and implementation of river basin management plans. On the territory of Ukraine nine areas of river basins are allocated: Dnipro; Dnister; Danube; Southern Bug; Don; Vistula; rivers of the Crimea; rivers of the Black Sea coast; rivers of the Azov Sea coast 13 sub-basins are allocated in four river basins district. The water management zoning is described - the division of hydrographic units into water management areas, which is carried out for the development of water management balances. In the regions of the river basins in the territory of Ukraine allocated 132 water management areas, 59 of which are located in the Dnipro basin. About 9,000 bodies of surface water allocated for monitoring in Ukraine. Approved zoning is the implementation of the provisions of the EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60 / EC in the management of water resources in Ukraine. Modern hydrographic and water management zoning of the territory of Ukraine approximates the management of water resources of the state to European requirements.

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