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 …

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …

network and hydropower representation. Swissmod captures the features and restrictions of run-of-river, yearly storage and … pumped-storage power plants and combines this with a network model of the river and water stream system to take the … interdependence of hydraulically coupled hydropower plants into account. In addition, the Swiss electricity network is represented …