Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources

Droughts and their management are a serious challenge to water resource professionals. While droughts predominate in arid regions, their frequency and severity in more temperate regions with more abundant rainfall have been on the rise. Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources provides an essential collection of planning and management tools for minimizing the negative impacts of droughts. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it covers water conservation and reuse, conjunctive use and use of marginal resources, desalination, deep groundwater extraction, optimization modeling, and decision support systems. With contributions from a prestigious international panel, the book presents best management practices that maximize efficiency, reliability, and economy while minimizing the potential for adverse effects to the environment and human health. Providing appropriate methodologies, the chapters discuss how conjunctive water use can increase water availability in the developing world and what types of conjunctive use schemes are the most promising. The book examines the feasibility of a drought watch alert system and the legal and administrative framework required. It also explores the application of the Optimization Models and the Decision Support Systems to the study of different water management alternatives under drought conditions. Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources delineates how to reduce drought effects through pro-active vision, good management, and conjunctive use of water sources.

Table of Contents:
Water Management in Mediterranean Regions Prone to Drought: The Júcar Basin Experience, J.F. Polo and J. Paredes
Introduction
Current Spanish Legal Framework
Droughts in the Júcar Basin Agency
Indicators and Watch Alert Systems in the JBA
Analysis of Drought Events in the JBA
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Criteria for Marginal Water Treatment and Reuse Under Drought Conditions, G. Mancini, P. Roccaro, S. Sipala, and F.G.A. Vagliasindi
Introduction
Potential Applications for Marginal Waters
Issues in Marginal Waters Utilization
Health Protection issues
Nitrogen Yield Evaluation: Issues and Recommendations
Wastewater Reuse System Monitoring: Issues and Recommendations
Guidelines for the Reuse of Marginal Water for Ground Water Recharge
Aquifer Characterization: Issues and Recommendations
Recharge Techniques: Issues and Recommendations
Human Health Protection: Issues and Recommendations
Guidelines for Marginal Water Urban Reuse
Guidelines for Marginal Water Industrial Reuse
Cost Analysis for Marginal Water Treatment
Development of a Web-Based Information System for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
References
Strategies for the Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater, A. Sahuquillo
Introduction
Methods of Conjunctive Use
Comparison between Artificial Recharge and Alternate Use
Other Aspects and Possibilities
Conjunctive Use Potential in Developing Countries
Analysis of Conjunctive Use Systems
Methods of Analysis
Conclusion and Recommendations
References
Optimization Model for the Conjunctive Use of Conventional and Marginal Waters, F. Salis, G.M. Sechi, and P. Zuddas
Introduction
Identification of the Optimization Algorithm
The Optimization Package WARGI: Water Resources System
Optimization Aided by Graphical Interface
WARGI Graphical Interface
Results Applying WARGI to Real Cases
Conclusion
References
Decision Support Systems for Drought Management, D.P. Loucks
Introduction
Drought Planning
Drought Decision Support
Case Examples
National Drought Management Planning
Conclusion
References
Methodology for the Analysis of Drought Mitigation Measures in Water Resource Systems, J. Andreu and A.S. Solera
Introduction
Operative Drought
Time Scales and the Space Factor in the Analysis of Operative Droughts
Analysis, Characterization, and Monitoring of Operative Droughts
Methodology of the Analysis
The Aquatool Environment for the Development of Decision Support Systems
Case Studies
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Droughts and the European Water Framework Directive: Implications on Spanish River Basin Districts, T. Estrela, A. Fidalgo, and M.A. Pérez
Introduction
Droughts in the WFD
Drought Planning Legal Framework in Spain
Drought Management Tools
Drought Indicators for the Spanish Territory
The Júcar River Basin District
Conclusion
References
Water reuse and Desalination at Comunitat-Valenciana Region, Spain, V. Serrano-Orts, J. Paredes, and J. Andreu
Introduction
Legislative, Territorial, and Social Framework
Water Situation of Comunitat-Valenciana
Wastewater Reuse
Desalination
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
References
Role of Decision Support System and Multicriteria Methods for the Assessment of Drought Mitigation Measures, G. Rossi, A. Cancelliere, and G. Giuliano
Introduction
Assessment of Drought Mitigation Measures Trough a Multicriteria Approach
Application of the Proposed Procedure for the Assessment of Drought Mitigation Measures to the Case Studies
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References Index