Allocation ; Management ; New Zealand ; Water ; Water economics ; Watermanagement ; Water resources ; Water use
Implementing the resource management act compels those responsible for managing the allocation and end-use of water resources to address several conceptual issues. They include the expansion of the range of relevant management values, regionalism
Himalayan water resources : ecological and political aspects of management
Asia ; Ecology ; Flood ; Fluvial hydrology ; Himalaya ; Hydraulic works ; Mountain ; Water ; Watermanagement ; Water resources
for future watermanagement. - (DWG)
Overview of water from the Himalayan mountain system with discussion of its variability, the growth of pressure on water resources, the phenomena of floods and droughts, storage and diversion of its streams, dams, and the institutional framework
Institutional change in local watermanagement: cases from Balochistan
Legislation ; Management ; Pakistan ; Resource management ; Water ; Watermanagement ; Water use
The aim of this study was to explore mechanism of institutional change and stagnation in local water resource management in Balochistan. It particularly wants to contribute to questions of how institutional change relates to sustainable
and efficient resource utilization: how indigenous change takes place and whether and how external interventions in the field of the definition of resource rights or support to user organizations, can strengthen local resource management. -(AGD)
Hydrological processes and water resources in the face of global climate change
Climatic variation ; Decision aid ; Drought ; Forecast ; Global change ; Natural hazards ; Uncertainty ; Water ; Watermanagement ; Water resources
Watermanagement is choice in face of bounded uncertainty. This papre presents some theories, as well as 3 principles of uncertainty, namely : of the minimum and maximum of uncertainty and of its immutability. Examples are cited of the undesirable
consequences of a failure to heed these principles. Methods of rational decisionmaking in conditions of uncertainty are presented, while methodological considerations are supported by examples of applications in watermanagement.
Breeding sustainability with daily decision making : the watermanagement plan of the autonomous province of Trento
Hydrology ; Italy ; Management ; Sustainable development ; Watermanagement
In this paper, the watermanagement plan of the autonomous province of trento is presented and critically examined. The approach of Trento to sustainability represents an interesting case introducing new planning goals and instruments. - (JS)
Traditional watermanagement and state intervention: the case of Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Cape Verde ; Government intervention ; Irrigation ; Water ; Watermanagement
A Sahelian-type climate and rugged relief in this westernmost island of the Cape Verde archipelago requires a meticulous watermanagement to support its 45,000 people. The irrigation systems are intricate and well-organized, but a new irrigation
The role of flood plains in the sustainable water supply of Pécs
Danube ; Floodplain ; Hungary ; Lower valley ; Town ; Water ; Watermanagement ; Water supply
is considered, then obstacles to achieving sustainable watermanagement are analysed. - (JS)
The main aim of the paper is to present the unsustainable conditions of water supply of Pécs and to detect the main reasons behind it. First the special role of the flood plain along the Lower Danube Valley in the water supply of the town
Bulgaria ; Consumption ; Demand ; Water ; Water economics ; Watermanagement ; Water use
Existing water resources can become inadequate if water losses are too important and if there is an irrational use of water. Water conservation could solve some water supply problems by providing more reasonable water consumption and additional time
for development of new resources. The possibilities for reducing water use and the need for developing a national conservation program are discussed. An analysis of the variables which affect water use is performed. Developing of water-use efficiency standards
for plumbing fixtures and conservation-oriented water rates and measures are proposed.
Assessment and utilization of soil water resources
Agriculture ; China ; Groundwater ; Irrigation ; Northern China ; Water ; Water budget ; Watermanagement ; Water resources
Based on the analyses of water interactions and water balance, this paper discusses the issues on the assessment and regulation of soil water resources, which lays the scientific basis for limited irrigation and water-saving agriculture.
Agricultural policy ; China ; Drought ; Hydraulic works ; Irrigation ; Monsoon ; Salinity ; Shandong ; Water ; Watermanagement
The Northwest Shandong Province constitutes a complex system with very uneven year-to-year precipitation. In order to improve the linkage between design work and watermanagement and to enhance irrigation efficiency within the system, water
management reforms and design innovations have been implemented since the introduction of the Production Responsibility System. The manipulation of economic incentives, encouraging farmers to participate in watermanagement and changing the financing
situation facing to farmers, are the basic techniques used to improve watermanagement in Northwest of Shandong Province.
Geography's covert operation in water resource management
Applied geography ; California ; Man-environment relations ; Practice of geography ; Resource management ; United States of America ; Water ; Watermanagement
Paper begins with a good review of the many ways that water is essential to humans. A. then reviews a survey she conducted of geography students and recent graduates at San Francisco State who are employed in water resource management. She discusses
The shortage of water resources in the Northern territory of China and its mitigative countermeasures
China ; Conflict ; Environment ; Northern China ; Water ; Watermanagement ; Water needs ; Water resources ; Water use
resources management and reallocating water resources between different regions.
The shortage of water resource and large scale exploitation of groundwater have caused a series of environmental problems. The aims of mitigative countermeasures are mainly at developing water saving agriculture and industries, strenghtening water
Marketing channel ; Water ; Water economics ; Watermanagement ; Water resources ; Water supply ; World
but is one of the claims to be subjected to decision making. Managing the demand of water in the framework of the objectives of a national socio-economic development plan is a challenge in the water planning process. This planning requires strong mechanisms
Recent investigations conclude that there are many areas where the demands are growing beyond water availability and problems arise from intensive withdrawals, mismanagement, or simply low availability. Water demand is no longer an evident necessity
Vodni hopodarstvi a péce o zivotni prostredi. (Watermanagement and environmental control)
Watermanagement is evaluated as a positive item of the environmental control according to examples of completed projects, results of research activities, planning and legislation. (MS).
Békés megye mezogazdasagi vizgazdalkodasarol. (Agricultural watermanagement in Békés county)
Regarding national averages in Békés county the agriculture is the largest consumer of water. It makes the watermanagement very important but another important problem is related and that is the protection of the agricultural lands because
Geomorphology ; History of geography ; Hungary ; Water budget ; Watermanagement
The study is not only a tribute to the lifework of Sándor Somogyi but to the subject of geomorphology, so essential for the studies on water budget and watermanagement. - (AM)
The private sector, urban water conservation and developing countries : a stakeholder theory-driven perspective from Botswana
Botswana ; Management ; Private sector ; Urban economy ; Urbanization ; Water ; Watermanagement ; Water needs
conservation and their contribution to the wider urban watermanagement system in Botswana are explored. - (AJC)
Botswana is a semi-arid and water scare country with a fast growing urban population. The private sector is an important actor for the urban economy to remain functional and competitive. The contribution of the private sector companies in water