Sustainable allocation of water resources in water-scarcity conditions using robust fuzzy stochastic programming

Dadmand, Fatemeh; Azimi, Zahra Naji; Farimani, Nasser Motahari; Davary, Kamran

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123812

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“…After that, low yield of agricultural products per hectare and climate disasters such as flood, drought, and frost with a CV of 0.13 (X = 8.70; Sd = 1.15) and 0.14 (X = 9.02; Sd = 1.28), respectively, were the most important challenges from the viewpoint of the participants. In recent years, water scarcity due to overuse of this natural resource on one side and climatic phenomena such as occurrence of more than 27 severe drought events during 40 years [23] on other side has caused great damage to the agricultural sector [24][25][26] and even in some areas had been led to the depopulation of rural areas [27][28][29]. This is probably the reason why the experts under study emphasize the importance of water reduction and climatic phenomena as the two most important challenges for development of the agricultural sector.…”

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Challenges Threatening Agricultural Sustainability in the West of Iran: Viewpoint of Agricultural Experts

2021

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Sustainability has always been an emphasized topic in policy making and planning in the agricultural sector of developing countries. Despite this fact, sustainable agriculture has not been realized so far because of the various complex challenges in these countries. The lack of a structured scientific research on these challenges prompted us to conduct a study to fill this research gap and to create useful knowledge on this issue. In this regard, 300 Iranian agricultural experts, selected through stratified random sampling technique, were interviewed to explore and prioritize challenges threatening agricultural sustainability in the west of Iran. Findings indicated water scarcity and low productivity beside environmental and climate disasters were the most important challenges from the viewpoint of the participants. Moreover, insufficient investment in the agricultural sector and management weakness at the macro and micro levels were other significant challenges from the perspective of experts. Results of exploratory factor analysis indicated that the challenges threatening agricultural sustainability can be divided into nine categories including lack of investment and liquidity; environmental and climate disasters; scientific weakness; weakness of labor force in the agricultural sector; management problems; weakness of information systems; low agricultural productivity and lack of attention to quality; challenges related to agricultural inputs; and global challenges. This 9-factor structure, which confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis, was able to explain 67.52% of the variance related to the challenges threatening agricultural sustainability in the west of Iran.

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Challenges Threatening Agricultural Sustainability in the West of Iran: Viewpoint of Agricultural Experts

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“…Nowadays, the harmonious development of human and water resources and the solution of multiple objectives has been considered in water resource allocation (Kucukmehmetoglu 2012;Mianabadi et al 2014;Das et al 2015;Chang et al 2016;Zeng et al 2017;Tian et al 2019;Wang et al 2019;Dadmand et al 2020;Li et al 2020;Pourmand et al 2020;Sarband et al 2020). To guarantee harmonious development with nature and realize a socioeconomic development mode that matches the carrying capacity of water resources, the scarcity of water resources and their ecological value should be further considered in the process of water resource allocation.…”

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Synergetic Theory-Based Water Resource Allocation Model

Shen

Xie

et al. 2021

Water Resour Manage

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To promote the harmonious development of human and water resources, the scarcity and ecological value of water resources should be considered in water resource allocation. In this paper, synergetic theory was applied to the process of water resource allocation, and we constructed a synergetic theory-based water resource allocation model by investigating the synergetic principle of each link of water resource allocation. The objective equation was established for determining the optimal comprehensive benefit of the composite system. Multidimensional constraint conditions were constructed from the perspective of the social benefit, economic benefit and ecological benefit of water supply, and balance equations were established. Order parameters were selected for the social, economic and ecological subsystems, and the order degrees of the three subsystems and the synergetic degrees of allocation schemes were calculated by using the fuzzy mathematics method to provide a basis for the recommendation of an optimal scheme. Finally, we proposed a multicycle iterative algorithm to realize the overall objective of "harmonious development between humans and water resources", which provides an effective calculation tool for water resource synergetic allocation. This model was applied in Jilin, and an optimal scheme was recommended on the basis of a synergetic degree analysis, which shows that the water supply of conventional water sources will be saved by an increase in the reclaimed water supply. In addition, after the implementation of an external diversion project by 2030, the amount of groundwater withdrawal will be gradually reduced, and the water deficit rate will be significantly reduced.

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“…Uncertain optimization methods, such as interval programming (Fu et al 2017), fuzzy programming (Zhang et al 2015) and stochastic programming (Erfani et al 2018), are often used to address these uncertainties. Meanwhile, these methods are also used in water allocation of multiple water resources (Wang et al 2017;Li et al 2018;Dadmand et al 2020) and agricultural water and land allocation (Cai and Rosegrant 2004;Cai et al 2016;Chen et al 2017). Fraga et al (2017) proposed an integrated framework for short-and long-term water source planning based on dynamic programming and quadratic programming.…”

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Optimal Model of Desalination Planning Under Uncertainties in a Water Supply System

Wang

Liu

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Water Resour Manage

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A requirement for developing desalination in coastal regions suffering water scarcity is proposed to address the increased water demand and limited traditional water supply. The determination of plant capacity and water allocation scheme in a multiple-source water supply system, the first problem in planning desalination under stream flow and water demand uncertainties, remains a challenge. To address this gap, an intervalparameter two-stage stochastic programming model is developed in this study. The first-stage problem is to determine a proper desalination plant capacity, and the second is the water allocation scheme under uncertainties of natural stream flows, water demands, benefits and economic losses. The objective function is to maximize the net benefit of the system, and the cost function of desalination, including capital and operational costs, implying environmental impact, is linearized within a range of plant capacities to solve the model. The proposed approach is applied to an urban area of Weihai city in China to illustrate the validity of the model. The results suggest a capacity of 46 10 3 m 3 /d in 2030 and 56 10 3 m 3 /d in 2040. Sensitivity analyses of the parameters indicate that the unit price of electricity influences the utilization level of desalinated seawater, and a complementary relationship is observed between reclaimed water and desalinated seawater.

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Sustainable allocation of water resources in water-scarcity conditions using robust fuzzy stochastic programming

Cited by 55 publications

References 29 publications

Challenges Threatening Agricultural Sustainability in the West of Iran: Viewpoint of Agricultural Experts

Challenges Threatening Agricultural Sustainability in the West of Iran: Viewpoint of Agricultural Experts

Synergetic Theory-Based Water Resource Allocation Model

Optimal Model of Desalination Planning Under Uncertainties in a Water Supply System

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