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 …

river. Upstream Kyrgyzstan operates the Toktogul reservoir which generates hydropower demanded mainly in winter for heating …. Downstream Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan need irrigation water in summer, primarily to grow cotton. Regional agreements obliging … due to lack of trust between the parties. Striving for self-sufficiency in irrigation water, Uzbekistan initiated new …

that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …

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 …

Large hydropower dams are at the centre of a debate weighing the value and costs of renewable energy against the risks … of climate change. The debate is especially relevant on the African continent, which offers vast hydropower potential … structure P3 contracts to improve hydropower project value as well as insure sponsors against climate risk. …