Optimization methods applied for sustainable management of water-scarce basins

Cetinkaya, Cem P.; Fıstıkoğlu, Okan; Harmancioğlu, Nilgun B.; Fedra, K.

doi:10.2166/hydro.2007.011

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“…Its uses a topological network representation of a river basin consisting of various nodes as well as river reaches and canals connecting them. These nodes may represent sub-catchments, reservoirs, wells, diversions and confluences, and areas of water demand (cities, tourist resorts, irrigation districts and large industries) (Cetinkaya et al 2008). Different node types representing a number of basin features are summarized in Table 2.…”

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Optimal Water Resources Management: Case of Lower Litani River, Lebanon

Doummar¹,

Massoud

Khoury³

et al. 2008

Water Resour Manage

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The pressures of human population and patterns of development frequently jeopardize the integrity of river systems worldwide. An integrated approach to water resources management is essential, particularly in developing countries. This study presents the results of the water resources optimization conducted for the Lower Litani River Basin in Lebanon. The overall aim of the project is to develop, test, and critically evaluate an innovative approach to water resources management in the Mediterranean region. The method explores the ways in which multiple environmental, economic, and social benefits can be achieved through integrated management of water resources. The Water Resources Model was utilized to assess the efficiency of the baseline model scenario and for the optimization process of the different scenarios of the Litani Lower Basin. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis was applied in order to derive the objectives and constraints. Results revealed that the potential retained scenarios aim at decreasing water consumption and demand, losses, and return flow. These scenarios mainly include the shift to drip irrigation, awareness campaigns, and losses control in domestic supply pipes. Other retained scenarios having a higher shortfall rely on the use of the Channel concrete lining to decrease losses and return flow, in addition to the awareness campaigns in both domestic and irrigation sectors, and less consumptive/more efficient irrigation methods such as sprinkler and drip irrigation

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimal Water Resources Management: Case of Lower Litani River, Lebanon

Doummar¹,

Massoud

Khoury³

et al. 2008

Water Resour Manage

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“…The very basis or the evaluation of any and all Bperformance^criteria that describe how the basin management meets our expectations is a dynamic water budget model: this is supposed to tell us how much water (and with the integration of a water quality model) of which quality, we can expect where and when (ESS 2006c;Fedra et al 2007;Cetinkaya et al 2007).…”

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River Basin Management: What do we Really Want?

Fedra

2015

Environ. Process.

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River basin management, or Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), is subject to the European Directive 2000/60/EC, related Directives and amendments (2008/105/EC). These Directives define management Bobjectives^such as: preventing and reducing pollution; promoting sustainable water usage; environmental protection; improving aquatic ecosystems and mitigating the effects of floods and droughts. The dominant objective is to achieve Bgood ecological and chemical status^for all Community waters by 2015. These are all noble and laudable goals, hard to disagree with, but they do not necessarily cover everything that Bstakeholdersî n water resources management (which is more or less everybody) really want. I claim that what we really want is to maximize net benefit from the operation and use of any water resources system, get as close to some BUtopia^as possible. Net benefit here is not meant in any narrow economic, monetary sense, but as a measure of all the goods and benefits, countable monetary but also qualitative, perceived, spiritual, whatever is Bworthâ nything to us. Utopia is the (theoretical) state of a system that combines all the Bbest valuesâ chievable for all criteria considered. Implementation of this view revolves around the simple concept of mass conservation, dynamic water budget modelling, that tells us how much water is or will be available where and when. The model describes the dynamic balance of demand and supply, reliability of supply, various efficiencies etc. together with water quality, and whatever Bvalued^attribute of the system the model can describe. This yields the metric for the degree to which various objectives are met. A multiattribute approach measures how close we can get to Utopia in a Bnormalizedâ chievement space of any number of criteria. The optimization tries to find the set of policies, measures, and technologies with their costs and efficiencies, that will get us as close to Utopia as possible. This involves trade-off between objectives (and stakeholders), give and take, that should lead to cooperative games that should in turn (given reasonable stakeholders) result in win-win solutions. This assumes that Bto win^in some tangible sense, to be better off than Bbefore^, is what we really want, and that we can learn and agree on what means: Bbetter^.

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“…have become widespread, focusing on concrete and specific applications. These infrastructures provide information about the status and performance of the installation, integration of sensors, media and databases [13][14][15][16][17]. Numerous efforts in artificial intelligence were made to solve problems of conventional processes by applying different knowledge-based systems.…”

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“…Numerous efforts in artificial intelligence were made to solve problems of conventional processes by applying different knowledge-based systems. Related to the water supply distribution chain, knowledge techniques have been developed as isolated support systems for monitoring, diagnosis, design, process optimization, etc., [14,[18][19][20] among others. These systems are becoming more and more sophisticated, advanced and have enabled significant water management improvements.…”

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A Holistic ICT Solution to Improve Matching between Supply and Demand over the Water Supply Distribution Chain

Anzaldi¹

2014

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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While many water management tools exist, these systems are not usually interconnected and therefore cannot communicate between one another, preventing Integrated Water Resources Management to be fully achieved. This paper presents the solution proposed by WatERP project * where a novel solution enables better matching between water supply and demand from holistic perspective. Subsystems that control the production, management and consumption of water will be interconnected through both information architecture and intelligent infrastructure. The main outcome will consist of, a web-based Open Management Platform integrating near real-time knowledge on water supplies and demand, from sources to users, across geographic and organizational scales and supported by a knowledge base where information will be structured in water management ontology to ensure interoperability and maximize usability. WatERP will thus provide a major contribution to: 1) Improve coordination among actors, 2) Foster behavioural change, 3) Reduce water and energy consumption, 4) Optimize water accountability.

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Optimization methods applied for sustainable management of water-scarce basins

Cited by 30 publications

References 5 publications

Optimal Water Resources Management: Case of Lower Litani River, Lebanon

Optimal Water Resources Management: Case of Lower Litani River, Lebanon

River Basin Management: What do we Really Want?

A Holistic ICT Solution to Improve Matching between Supply and Demand over the Water Supply Distribution Chain

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