between agriculture and energy sectors as much as upstream and downstream water uses of countries. Copyright Springer Science …The literature on transboundary water resources allocation modelling is still short on encompassing and analyzing … Model (ITETRBM), which is a linear programming based transboundary water resources allocation model maximizing net economic …

Pressing water scarcity in Jordan rapidly increases the demands of marginal water resources for the agricultural sector …. Water management studies reveal that no single source could fully solve the nation’s water shortage and many integrated … actions are needed to ensure water availability, suitability and sustainability. Yet, among these options treated wastewater …

crop area from remote sensing and potential evapotranspiration based estimates of irrigation water requirements for cotton … in future evaporation conditions will be of similar nature, water use for irrigation is expected to decrease over 40 …Changes in summer irrigated cropland acreage and related water use are estimated from satellite remote sensing and …

Water availability in adequate quantities and qualities is a fundamental requirement for tourism. In the Mediterranean …, one of the world’s leading tourist destinations, water availability is subject to modest and erratic precipitation figures … to new technologies such as desalination or increasing efficiency in water use. A third and yet little explored …

the importance of integrated water resources management and establishing a drought monitoring system in all basins, in … world. According to the results, Urmia Lake basin faced the most severe drought condition in the past half century in 1998 … and RDI performance in drought recognition was acceptable and matched in many cases; nevertheless, it was concluded that …

This study aims to model the joint drought duration and severity distribution using two-dimensional copulas. The method … as a function of the dependence parameters. The drought duration and severity are assumed to be exponential and gamma …. The copula fitting results for drought duration and severity are quite satisfactory. The bivariate drought analyses …

spell length (AMDSL), is a key practice for regional drought analysis and mitigation management. For arid and semi arid … with L-moment method for hydrologic regionalization and spatial variation of drought statistical characteristics. Copyright …

significant influence on the assessment of paddy water requirements during non-drought seasons while hardly effects the paddy … water demand estimated for drought seasons. Furthermore, the daily-time-series analysis of the paddy water demand assessment … precipitation data are more reasonably adopted to estimate paddy water requirements in non-drought seasons than the monthly …

streamflow prediction, conflicts over water resources allocation, and the absence of necessary emergency schemes in drought … of reservoirs in drought periods could help to mitigate the drought impacts by reducing the expected water shortages. For … the region and has increased water scarcity and drought severity. To incorporate the climate change study in reservoir …

water conservation measuresin agriculture practice, water pricing and water metering. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers … strategies are proposedto reduce the vulnerability of the Prairies to future droughts,where surface water is the primary water … supply and agricultureis the major water user: (1) Continue implementing small-scalewater resources projects and increase …