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 …

; and changes in river flow with impacts on hydropower and the ability to meeting water requirements for municipal … overall hydropower generating capacity is typically only mildly affected by 2041 to 2050. -- climate change ; water systems … level rise; increased temperature and changes in precipitation resulting in changes in crop water requirements and yields …

.g., irrigation schemes, hydropower plants, roads, etc.) has been questioned considerably in recent years. For this reason, efforts to … method for quantifying the impacts on biophysical measures (surface water supply, crop production, flooding events, and … hydropower generation) of the Zambezi River Basin countries using a large pool (6,800) of climate projections, which are based on …

assessment: the technical and institutional assessments of national and communal irrigation systems, the water resource … implementation, operations maintenance, and monitoring and evaluation. The water resources component assessed the irrigation service … areas as originally planned or designed compared to the actual service areas with respect to water availability, land use …