Water balances pertaining to the flux of water through the Volta River Basin and a black box model of the rainfall …/runoff relationship for estimating the river flows into the Akosombo Reservoir are presented. As the water demand has approached supply …, the tradeoffs between competing water uses are likely to intensify. It is also apparent from the balances that land use …

Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically … efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated … agriculture for economic development such as in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Due to ill-managed water resources and the dominance of …

Recent analyses of the evolution and structure of trade in virtual water revealed that the number of trade connections … and volume of virtual water trade have more than doubled over the past two decades, and that developed countries … increasingly draw on the rest of the world to alleviate the pressure on their domestic water resources. Our work builds on these …

Increasing water demand due to population growth and economic development under the mounted investment costs for … developing new water sources calls for efficient, equitable and sustainable management of water resources in many developing … with unbalanced water resources management led to the destruction of the ecosystems in the delta zone and the gradual …

in the entire water sector with the goal of a more enhanced and equitable water management system. This paper analyzes … existing water allocation situations and applies a nonlinear optimization model to investigate the optimal intra- and … interregional allocations in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Results show higher benefit from interregional water …

flowing through or bordering Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Whereas water resources in the wet season are … more than adequate to fulfill basin needs, there are regional water shortages during the dry season, when only 1-2% of the … the basin, including efficient, equitable, and environmentally sustainable water allocation mechanisms that support the …