Integrated Water Resource Management in Isfahan: The Zayandeh Rud Catchment

Mohajeri, Shahrooz; Horlemann, Lena; Sklorz, Sebastian; Kaltofen, Michael; Ghanavizchian, Sharare; Voigt, Tamara Nuñez von

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25071-7_23

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“…The project aimed at developing sustainable water resources for the stakeholders of Zayandeh-Rud watershed (Figure 3) including the decisionmakers and the affected people who face severe challenges due to the rapidly declining amount and quality of available water. Therefore, the relevant skills and capacities of Iran and Germany were put together to develop sustainable water management along the river and balance the competing agricultural, industrial, municipal, and environmental water demands (Mohajeri et al, 2016).…”

Section: Water Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey on Integral Futures Studies Capacity to Overcome the Challenge of Meeting Future Water Resources for Food Production at the National Level in Iran

Dezfuli

Abdoreza

Nezamipur

et al. 2016

Journal of Sustainable Rural Development

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Purpose:Coping water scarcity and food production in Iran require some appropriate Futures Studies (FS) paradigm. Integral Futures Studies (IFS) is applied and examined for studying the futures of water supply for food production in I. R. of Iran. Methods:Virtual workshop, as a web based foresight procedure, is developed and implemented according to IFS circumstances for a future based structured social dialogue, among Iranian stakeholders. The first phase of the foresight procedure (pre-foresight) lasted 6 months, 105 national stakeholders were registered to take part in online discussions, surveys, and workshops, and to share their ideas and opinions on future agendas and trends. During this phase, the objective and subjective parts of the knowledge on shaping the future were integrated into one system. Finally 36 volunteers evaluated the pre-foresight.Results: IWRM and AM are some global approaches to solve the water allocation challenges at watershed or national levels. Under such circumstances future studies needs to bring closer divergent views, promote understandings, and interests; strengthen their consensus on the future interests and benefits of the nation, and renew their commitment to the preservation and management of water resources. So IFS could regard as a more suitable paradigm through coping water challenges for food production at national level. Behind some special results, procedure results (5C) of this study were examined. The percentages of participants consensus on the effectiveness of the examined issues were as follows: 1) Promoting thinking about the future (91%); 2) Clarifying the effective factors (88%); 3) Promoting thinking systematically (91%); 4) Forming new networks and communications (78%); 5) Promoting social learning about the subject of the study (89%); 6) Promoting cooperation among the participants (72%); and 7) Promoting consensus among the relevant stakeholders (75%). Conclusion:Finally, virtual workshop as a web based procedure and according to IFS circumstances, could promote a deep and continual structured and future oriented dialogue among the relevant stakeholders across the country for coping water challenges for food production at national level.

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Section: Water Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey on Integral Futures Studies Capacity to Overcome the Challenge of Meeting Future Water Resources for Food Production at the National Level in Iran

Dezfuli

Abdoreza

Nezamipur

et al. 2016

Journal of Sustainable Rural Development

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“…These regime shifts in SESs have occurred in many systems of the Earth on different temporal and spatial scales (Rocha et al, 2015b). These shifts have been observed in Iran, especially during the last decade (Azareh et al, 2021;Mohajeri & Horlemann, 2017;Saemian et al, 2020). Examples of these shifts include regime shifts in ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, and groundwater.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Dryland river regime shifts in Iran: Drivers and feedbacks

Rahimi

Ghorbani

Ahmadaali

et al. 2023

River Research & Apps

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In the Anthropocene, human activities have created unprecedented changes and nonlinear relationships between humans and nature. These changes can be much faster and more intense in arid and semiarid areas that have been affected by intense human activities. Iran has climates from very humid to very dry, but arid and semiarid climates cover the country's largest area. Many of these arid areas have undergone severe changes in their surface and groundwater ecosystems in recent years, which have caused severe damage to humans and the environment in the area and surrounding areas. Therefore, in this study, using the theory of regime shifts, the time series of the Zayandeh‐Rud River Basin in the center of Iran were analyzed. First, the data of the desired time series in the period of 1986–2018 was arranged seasonally. Then, using the sequential t‐test method, regime shifts in these time series were identified, and then, causal loop diagrams of these shifts and their drivers and feedbacks were interpreted. The results showed that in the time series of quantity and quality of surface water and groundwater level in the studied stations and aquifers, regime shifts can be identified. Regime shifts were also identified in the time series of agricultural land area. These shifts have occurred with the increase in human activities since the early 1950s in the metropolis of Isfahan, the increase in agricultural and industrial exploitation, and consequently, the increase in population. When this reinforcing feedback loop becomes dominant, the Zayandeh‐Rud River system has shifted from a regime of rich water resources to a regime of poor water resources. However, by recognizing and systematically analyzing these shifts, the Zayandeh‐Rud River system can be directed toward a sustainable system through structural reform, negotiation, and redefining goals.

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“…In the literature, numerous DSSs exist for water resource management, in which increasingly sophisticated computerized systems integrate watershed processes operating at different spatial and temporal scales, simulation models, and decisionmaking approaches (e.g. Rizzoli & Young 1997;Koutsoyiannis et al 2003;Mysiak et al 2005;Giupponi 2007;Matthies et al 2007;Makropoulos et al 2008;Argent et al 2009;Gastélum et al 2009;Singh 2010;Volk et al 2010;Heidari & Bozorgzadeh 2014;Babbar-Sebens et al 2015;Kumar et al 2015;Tian et al 2016;Wang et al 2016;Mohajeri & Horlemann 2017;Piemonti et al 2017;Aliyari et al 2018;Butchart-Kuhlmann et al 2018;Goharian & Burian 2018;Nohara et al 2018;Ruiz-Ortiz et al 2019;Sarband et al 2020). These DSSs have been developed for a variety of purposes, such as the following: Waterware , Aquatool for river basin management (Andreu et al 1996), and Nelup, to provide economic and environmental impacts of rural land-use change at the river basin scale (Dunn et al 1996), Floodss for flood management (Catelli et al 1998), Dssipm for irrigation management (da Silva et al 2001), Catchment Simulation Shell for supporting the participatory assessment and management of natural resources (Argent & Grayson 2003), WEAP for integrated water resource management and policy analysis (Yates et al 2005), MULINO-DSS for sustainable use of water resources at catchment scale (Mysiak et al 2005;Giupponi 2007), LADSS for land-use management at farm level (Rudner et al 2007), E2 for water quality modeling (Argent et al 2009), SWASAL to evalua...…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A scenario-based coupled SWAT-MODFLOW decision support system for advanced water resource management

Izady

Joodavi

Ansarian³

et al. 2021

Journal of Hydroinformatics

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Models provide invaluable visions to decision-makers for basin-scale management of water resources. However, decision-makers have difficulties in directly using these complex models. Water managers are primarily interested in user-friendly features allowing an integration of their judgments into the decision-making process, rather than applying detailed theories and methodologies. This knowledge gap between technical simulation models and policy-makers highlights the urgent need for developing an integrated water resource management decision support system (IWRM-DSS). This paper describes the main aspects of a new IWRM-DSS in which Microsoft Visual Studio under the C# language was employed to integrate the Microsoft SQL server as a database and ArcGIS Engine DLLs for pre/postdata processing for the SWAT and MODFLOW models. Two particular ‘module’ and ‘presentation’ shells are specifically designed for decision-makers to create four different scenarios, namely, ‘climatic’, ‘recharge’, ‘discharge’, and ‘coupled’ and to analyze the results. Decision-makers, without any detailed modeling knowledge and computer skills, can access the data and run models to test different management scenarios in an attractive graphical user interface. The IWRM-DSS, which was applied for the Neishaboor watershed, Iran, reveals that mean annual potential evapotranspiration increased to 8.2%, while runoff and recharge rates are reduced to 35 and 63%, which led to a decline of 13.5 m in mean groundwater level for the 13-year projected period.

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Integrated Water Resource Management in Isfahan: The Zayandeh Rud Catchment

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

A Survey on Integral Futures Studies Capacity to Overcome the Challenge of Meeting Future Water Resources for Food Production at the National Level in Iran

A Survey on Integral Futures Studies Capacity to Overcome the Challenge of Meeting Future Water Resources for Food Production at the National Level in Iran

Dryland river regime shifts in Iran: Drivers and feedbacks

A scenario-based coupled SWAT-MODFLOW decision support system for advanced water resource management

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