Water Resources Management: Methods, Applications and Challenges

United States of America : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2020.

Water resources play an essential role in all aspects of human life and activities. All living organisms need water for survival. Due to increased demand for water, appropriate water resources management should be established. This book covers various aspects of water resources management, including their use for different purposes and impacts of natural factors and anthropogenic pressures on water resources.

Climate changes affect water resources, causing floods and droughts. All human activities such as water supply, irrigation, navigation, hydropower, tourism and recreation use water resources. The natural and anthropogenic impacts cause a decline in water quantity and the degradation of water quality. Water resources are especially important in protected areas and management of them in these areas is a specific challenge. Adequate water resources management should address all water related issues, to establish an institutional and legal framework, as well as the cooperation of all relevant actors in this field at national and international level. Water reuse, such as wastewater management is also an important challenge.

This book provides some models and methods which are used for water resources estimation, their vulnerability and exposure to natural and anthropogenic influences. Taking into account various aspects of water related topics, application of diverse models and methods in different geographical areas, the book Water Resources Management: Methods, Applications and Challenges could help policy and decision makers as well as other stakeholders in finding the solutions of some water related problems.

Chapters

IMPACT OF REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES ON THE EMERGENCE OF EXTREMELY DRY YEARS IN EUROPEAN RUSSIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Sidorova M., Kashutina E. A., Cherenkova E. A., , in: Water Resources Management: Methods, Applications and Challenges.: United States of America: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2020. Ch. 1 P. 1–34.

This study presents a spatio-temporal analysis of changes in long-term river runoff and the frequency of years with extremely low flows in European Russia (ER) in the 21st century. The analysis is based on climate projections from an ensemble of the 12 models of the global coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models (GCMs) of Phase 5 ...

Added: November 30, 2020

DIFFUSE BIOGENIC POLLUTION OF WATER BODIES IN THE VOLGA RIVER BASIN — EXAMPLE OF CHEBOKSARY RESERVOIR BASIN

Yasinskii S. V., Koronkevich N. I., Kashutina E. A. et al., , in: Water Resources Management: Methods, Applications and Challenges.: United States of America: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2020. P. 123–152.

Since 1990, water use in Russia has decreased significantly (up to 30%). However, significant improvement in surface water quality has not occurred, especially in the Volga River Basin, Russia’s main river. Unsatisfactory water quality in the Volga River Basin seems to result from uncontrolled nonpoint (or diffuse) pollution from basins. To localize the primary sources ...

Added: November 30, 2020

Keywords: management, water resources, estimation, natural factors, anthropogenic pressures