scholarly journals Analysis of present IWRM in the Upper Brahmaputra and the Upper Danube River Basins

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.-A. Flügel ◽  
A. Bartosch
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Water Management Planning

Abstract. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which strives towards the sustainable management of water resources in river basins. The approach integrates insights and knowledge from various scientific disciplines comprising natural, socio-economic, and engineering sciences. These three pillars of sustainability are important components of this approach integrating the environmental, economic and social dimension. In the ideal IWRM case planning is based on the river basin scale and therefore is comparatively discussed herein for the two twinning BRAHMATWINN river basins, i.e. the Upper Danube River Basin (UDRB) in Europe and the Upper Brahmaputra River Basin (UBRB) in South Asia. In this chapter major challenges for the implementation of the IWRM process towards a sustainable management of water resources in the two UDRB and UBRB twinning river basins of the BRAHMATWINN project are analysed. The study revealed that in the UDRB the IWRM approach is already part of water management planning and the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a good example in this regard. Contrary in the UBRB the implementation of IWRM is just at the beginning phase, only recently is being discussed in the riparian states but has not been implemented in any way so far on the basin scale.

scholarly journals Twinning European and South Asian river basins to enhance capacity and implement adaptive integrated water resources management approaches – results from the EC-project BRAHMATWINN

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.-A. Flügel
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Climate Modelling ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Governance Analysis ◽  
Management Approaches

Abstract. The EC-project BRAHMATWINN was carrying out a harmonised integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach as addressed by the European Water Initiative (EWI) in headwater river systems of alpine mountain massifs of the twinning Upper Danube River Basin (UDRB) and the Upper Brahmaputra River Basins (UBRB) in Europe and Southeast Asia respectively. Social and natural scientists in cooperation with water law experts and local stakeholders produced the project outcomes presented in Chapter 2 till Chapter 10 of this publication. BRAHMATWINN applied a holistic approach towards IWRM comprising climate modelling, socio-economic and governance analysis and concepts together with methods and integrated tools of applied Geoinformatics. A detailed description of the deliverables produced by the BRAHMATWINN project is published on the project homepage http://www.brahmatwinn.uni-jena.de.

scholarly journals The water dispatching of river basins during dry periods under the most stringent water management system in China

Water Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhu He ◽  
Zhenjie Gong ◽  
Yanhui Zheng ◽  
Xiaoyan Bai ◽  
Peng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Water Management System ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Utilization Ratio

Abstract Since 2011, China has implemented its most stringent water management system to effectively protect water resources and guarantee socioeconomic development. More basin-scale water division schemes have been developed to act as references for basin-scale water resources management. Water dispatching during dry periods is an effective way to guarantee the water supply for the river basin, and is also an important component of basin-scale water resources management. Given this, the present study proposes a framework for the water dispatching of river basins during dry periods under the most stringent water management system in China. This framework mainly consists of the analysis and forecasting of rainfall and inflow, the dispatching requirements for the main water users, major reservoirs, and sections, as well as safeguard measures. The Jian River Basin in South China is presented as a case study. The total discharge of the Gaozhou Reservoir in 2017 was 25 million m3 more than the target discharge specified in the water dispatching scheme, and the total water storage utilization ratio during the dispatch period was 4.7% higher than the target utilization ratio. These factors demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed framework. HIGHLIGHT The proposed framework for the water dispatching of river basins during dry periods provides reliable technical support for water use security under the most stringent water management system in China, and is demonstrated to be both effective and applicable.

scholarly journals Structural gaps of water resources knowledge in global river basins

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 5381-5398
Author(s):  
Shuanglei Wu ◽  
Yongping Wei ◽  
Xuemei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Period 2 ◽  
Basin Scale ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Management Issues

Abstract. The stationarity of hydrological systems is dead in the era of the Anthropocene. Has our hydrological or water resources knowledge been well transformed to address this change? By using publications indexed in the Web of Science database since 1900, we aim to investigate the global development of water resources knowledge at the river basin scale with a systems approach, of which water resources knowledge development in a river basin is defined as a complex system involving the co-evolutionary dynamics of scientific disciplines and management issues. It is found that (1) legacy-driven water resources knowledge structures have consistently dominated most of the highly researched river basins in the world, while innovation-driven structures are identified in the river basins receiving increasing research publications in the recent period; (2) the management issues addressed by legacy-driven river basin studies are increasingly homogenized, while a wider range of emerging issues are considered by innovation-driven river basin studies; and (3) cross-disciplinary collaborations have remained largely unchanged and collaborations with social sciences have been very limited. It is concluded that the stationarity of water resources knowledge structure persists. A structural shift of water resources knowledge development is urgently needed to cope with the rapidly changing hydrological systems and associated management issues, and opportunities for such a shift exist in those less researched but globally distributed innovation-driven river basins.

Institutional and legal arrangements in the Nile river basin: suggestions to improve the current situation toward adaptive integrated water resources management

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 2031-2040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Mohamed El Hassan Abdalla
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Nile River ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Nile River Basin

A comparative study was conducted in this work in order to investigate the current situation in the Nile river basin (NRB) regarding the institutional and legal arrangements needed to support the adaptive integrated water resources management (AIWRM) strategy. Two similar river basins were selected to achieve this comparison and to introduce suggestions to reform the current situation in the basin. Before that, the ideal situation is investigated to be as a yardstick for the desired situation. The study indicated that the necessary AIWRM criteria may include regulatory as well as implementation organizations that support shared-vision reaching with its all necessary features (cooperation, stakeholders' participation, subsidiarity, and information and knowledge exchange). Thus the main features of the desired situations regarding AIWRM in river basins are stakeholders' participation, learning-driven ability, quick response to risks and uncertainties, and finally a legal framework that could support these criteria. Although the AIWRM criteria seem to be satisfied in NRB, the basin lacks the necessary regulatory institutions as well as the legal framework. According to this, this study recommends to reform the current situation in NRB by creating regulator institutions (policy and decision making level) as well a legal framework to legitimate them.

scholarly journals Paradigms for water allocation in river basins: a society-science-practice perspective from Southern Africa

Water Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Chomba ◽  
T. Hill ◽  
B. A. Nkhata ◽  
J. J. Förster
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Water Allocation ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Science Practice ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Basin Scale

This paper seeks to complement ongoing discussions around water allocation by offering an analytic framework for examining the evolution of paradigms for water allocation in river basins. It traces this evolution from the hydraulic paradigm through to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the current water security paradigm. Using a society-science-practice interaction perspective, the paper draws attention to the governance processes of water allocation that underlie these paradigms using examples from river basins in southern Africa. It is argued that the process of allocating water resources is often influenced by societal priorities and values that do not necessarily result in maintaining ecosystem health and integrity. The efficacy of water allocation depends on the extent to which implementation takes into account the socio-political dynamics associated with collective action involving multiple water users. While paradigm shifts provide windows of opportunity for strengthening legislation, the mere adoption of paradigms should not be taken as a panacea for addressing challenges associated with water allocation in river basins. This is especially relevant for several countries in southern Africa that are undertaking water reforms with the view of strengthening allocation of water resources at basin scale.

scholarly journals Development of adaptive IWRM options for climate change mitigation and adaptation

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.-A. Flügel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Well Data ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract. Adaptive Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) options related to the impacts of climate change in the twinning basins of the Upper Danube River Basin (UDRB) and the Upper Brahmaputra River Basin (UBRB) are developed based on the results obtained in the different work packages of the BRAHMATWINN project. They have been described and discussed in Chapter 2 till Chapter 9 and the paper is referring to and is integrating these findings with respect to their application and interpretation for the development of adaptive IWRM options addressing impacts of climate change in river basins. The data and information related to the results discussed in Chapter 2 till 8 have been input to the RBIS as a central component of the IWRMS (Chapter 9). Meanwhile the UDRB has been analysed with respect to IWRM and climate change impacts by various projects, i.e. the GLOWA-Danube BMBF funded project (GLOWA Danube, 2009; Mauser and Ludwig, 2002) the UBRB has not been studied so far in a similar way as it was done in the BRAHMATWINN project. Therefore the IWRM option development is focussing on the UBRB but the methodology presented can be applied for the UDRB and other river basins as well. Data presented and analysed in this chapter have been elaborated by the BRAHMATWINN project partners and are published in the project deliverable reports available from the project homepage http://www.brahmatwinn.uni-jena.de/index.php?id=5311&L=2.

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