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Watershed Planning within a Quantitative Scenario Analysis Framework
Published on: July 24, 2016
Climate-environment-water: integrated and non-integrated approaches to reservoir operation
Elahe Fallah-Mehdipour1,2, Omid Bozorg-Haddad3, Hugo A Loáiciga4
1Department of Irrigation & Reclamation Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
Integrated water planning and management face multiple challenges, among which are the competing interests of several water-using sectors and changing climatic trends. This paper presents integrated and non-integrated climate-environment-water approaches for reservoir operation, illustrated with Karkhe reservoir, Iran. Reservoir operation objectives are meeting municipal, environmental, and agricultural water demands. Results show the integrated approach, which relies on multi-objective optimization of municipal, environmental, and agricultural water supply, improves the municipal, environmental, and agricultural objectives by 70, 32, and 65% compared with the objectives' values achieved with the non-integrated approach, which implements a standard operating policy.
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