<Para ID="Par1">Within the recent EU Water Framework Directive and the modification introduced into national water-related legislation, monitoring assumes great importance in the frame of territorial managerial activities. Recently, a number of public environmental agencies have invested resources in planning...</para>

<Para ID="Par1">The paper presents an approach to the modelling of watercourses or their sections according to and in order to determine their suitability for hydropower water use on a large scale. The method is based on a multi-criteria analysis approach which in addition to existing guidelines defines and...</para>

The multiple objectives and interests of various stack holders’ in reservoir operation bring forward many solutions to the problem. Possibly due to this complexity, in practice, the operating rules to be derived not only from heuristic approaches such as rules of thumb, rule curve, operator...

The multi-objective genetic algorithm is applied to determine the optimal operation of a multi-reservoir system in the Chi River Basin, Thailand. Two competing objective functions are considered; dam release and dam storage. The predicted values for the release and storage needed are mostly lower...

Saltwater intrusion management models can be used to derive optimal and efficient management strategies for controlling saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers. To obtain physically meaningful optimal management strategies, the physical processes involved need to be simulated while deriving the...

Efficient management of groundwater resources is important because groundwater availability is limited and, locally, groundwater quality has been impaired because of contamination. Here we present a multi-objective optimization framework for improving the management of a water works that...

Optimal design of irrigation channels has an important role in planning and management of irrigation projects. The input parameters used in design of irrigation channels are prone to uncertainty and may result in failure of channels. To improve the overall reliability and cost effectiveness,...

This paper presents a Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) to derive a set of optimal operation policies for a multipurpose reservoir system. One of the main goals in multi-objective optimization is to find a set of well distributed optimal solutions along the Pareto front. Classical...

Proper planning and management of irrigation is vital in achieving food security for the burgeoning global population and sustaining livelihoods. Because irrigated agriculture is expected to provide more food, if managed properly. The comprehensive reviews on the use of various programming...

In this paper a metaheuristic technique called Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is proposed to derive operating policies for a multi-purpose reservoir system. Most of the real world problems often involve non-linear optimization in their solution with high dimensionality and large number of...