Managing Water as a Critical Component of a Changing World

Loucks, Daniel P.

doi:10.1007/s11269-017-1705-7

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“…Overlaying this need are the increasingly complex interconnections between water risks and social systems. As a result, technical experts need to work with stakeholders on developing conceptual models of risks, defining objectives, and understanding how decision‐makers across water governance networks respond to policy interventions (Loucks, ). To mitigate this challenge, participatory and collaborative modeling approaches have been developed and successfully applied to inform water resources planning under uncertainty (e.g., Kwakkel et al, ; Palmer et al, ; Werick & Whipple, ).…”

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“…Advances in the research and practice of risk, water, and natural resources management provide tools to analyze systemic water risks and inform cross‐sectoral planning, including causal risk assessment (Fenton & Neil, ), water resources systems analysis (Brown et al, ), and participatory approaches (von Korff et al, ). As yet, there is only limited understanding about how to combine different knowledge types and different tools to support decision‐making under extreme uncertainty (Döll & Romero‐Lankao, ; Hale et al, ), and also an unmet need for physical science and economic research on water resources to better integrate social dynamics and, hence, provide a useful basis for real‐world decisions (Loucks, ).…”

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Decision‐Making for Systemic Water Risks: Insights From a Participatory Risk Assessment Process in Vietnam

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Systemic threats to food‐energy‐environment‐water systems require national policy responses. Yet complete control of these complex systems is impossible and attempts to mitigate systemic risks can generate unexpected feedback effects. Perverse outcomes from national policy can emerge from the diverse responses of decision‐makers across different levels and scales of resource governance. Participatory risk assessment processes can help planners to understand subnational dynamics and ensure that policies do not undermine the resilience of social‐ecological systems and infrastructure networks. Researchers can play an important role in participatory processes as both technical specialists and brokers of stakeholder knowledge on the feedbacks generated by systemic risks and policy decisions. Here, we evaluate the use of causal modeling and participatory risk assessment to develop national policy on systemic water risks. We present an application of the Risks and Options Assessment for Decision‐Making (ROAD) process to a district of Vietnam where national agricultural water reforms are being piloted. The methods and results of this project provide general insights about how to support resilient decision‐making, including the transfer of knowledge across administrative levels, identification of feedback effects, and the effective implementation of risk assessment processes.

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Decision‐Making for Systemic Water Risks: Insights From a Participatory Risk Assessment Process in Vietnam

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“…For instance, excessive population growth coupled with demographic change [3], and climate change impacts [4,5] are part of the significant trends coming up in Nigeria. Probably more importantly, these are projected to continue in future, thus increasing the pressure on water resources [6]. Changes in water availability can have serious repercussions on the sustainability of semi-arid environments [7], such as deteriorating the performance of storage reservoirs [8].…”

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Assessing the Impacts of Population Growth and Climate Change on Performance of Water Use Systems and Water Allocation in Kano River Basin, Nigeria

Ahmad

Haie

2018

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Improving the performance of water use systems (WUSs) is essential for addressing the pressure on water resources for sustainability. Despite the potential impacts of population growth and global warming especially in semi-arid regions, the knowledge and understanding of WUSs and impacts of those main drivers of change on their performance are not available in the Kano River basin (KRB). This paper assesses these impacts on the performance of KRB, using the new and innovative Sefficiency (sustainable efficiency) framework, which incorporates quantity, quality, and beneficial aspects of water use in a comprehensive and systemic manner. We found that performance of the WUSs is sensitive to population growth and global warming under the scenarios considered. Kano River is relatively less sensitive to global warming impacts, while high population growth is dominant. Moreover, their combined effect will result in a reduction of downstream water by 70% and potential demands will far exceed the available supply by 2050. It is recommended that efficient management of water regarding the qualitative as well as quantitative aspects is very critical in KRB. This study can be regarded as the first step, and future studies may adopt the described methodology and can benefit from smart technologies, e.g., sensors and remote sensing.

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“…In this small fraction, only 0.3% of the fresh water is used by humans. Many places in the world, for example the developing countries, are facing water crises because of population growth and climate change [1][2][3]. Generating drinkable water from salt water (desalination) is one of the most important approaches to solve this issue without any serious impact on the environment [4][5][6][7].…”

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Effective Thermal Analysis of Using Peltier Module for Desalination Process

Al‐Madhhachi¹

2018

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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The key objective of this study is to analyse the heat transfer processes involved in the evaporation and condensation of water in a water distillation system employing a thermoelectric module. This analysis can help to increase the water production and to enhance the system performance. For the analysis, a water distillation unit prototype integrated with a thermoelectric module was designed and fabricated. A theoretical model is developed to study the effect of the heat added, transferred and removed, in forced convection and laminar flow, during the evaporation and condensation processes. The thermoelectric module is used to convert electricity into heat under Peltier effect and control precisely the absorbed and released heat at the cold and hot sides of the module, respectively. Temperatures of water, vapour, condenser, cold and hot sides of the thermoelectric module and water production have been measured experimentally under steady state operation. The theoretical and experimental water production were found to be in agreement. The amount of heat that needs to be evaporated from water-vapour interface and transferred through the condenser surface to the thermoelectric module is crucial for the design and optimization of distillation systems.

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Managing Water as a Critical Component of a Changing World

Cited by 30 publications

References 18 publications

Decision‐Making for Systemic Water Risks: Insights From a Participatory Risk Assessment Process in Vietnam

Decision‐Making for Systemic Water Risks: Insights From a Participatory Risk Assessment Process in Vietnam

Assessing the Impacts of Population Growth and Climate Change on Performance of Water Use Systems and Water Allocation in Kano River Basin, Nigeria

Effective Thermal Analysis of Using Peltier Module for Desalination Process

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