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Hydrologic Model Selection For The Cfcas Project: Assessment Of Water Resources Risk And Vulnerability To Changing Climatic Conditions, Juraj Cunderlik

Water Resources Research Report

The main purpose of this report is to present an up-to-date summary and comparison of existing hydrologic models that are potentially suitable for achieving the goals set in the Canadian Foundation for Climatic and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS) funded project “Assessment of Water Resources Risk and Vulnerability to Changing Climatic Conditions” (“project” hereafter). The report is intended to provide the information necessary for choosing the “right” model; a model which would be the most appropriate hydrologic modeling tool for the project in terms of various criteria. A two-level selection approach is used to objectively determine the most suitable model. At the …

New Fuzzy Performance Indices For Reliability Analysis Of Water Supply Systems, Ibrahim El-Baroudy, Slobodan P. Simonovic

Water Resources Research Report

Large and complex engineering systems are subject to wide range of possible future loads and conditions. Uncertainty associated with the quantification of these potential conditions is imposing a great challenge to systems‘ design, planning and management. Therefore, the assurance of satisfactory and reliable system performance cannot be simply achieved.

Water supply systems, as typical example of these engineering systems, include collections of different types of facilities. These facilities are connected in complicated networks that extend over and serve broad geographical regions. As a result, water supply systems are at risk of temporary disruption in service due to natural hazards or …

Conflict Resolution Support System: A Software For The Resolution Of Conflicts In Water Resource Management, K. D. W. Nandalal, Slobodan P. Simonovic

Water Resources Research Report

Water is an important factor in conflicts among stakeholders at the local, regional, and international level. Water conflicts have taken many forms, but they almost always arise from the fact that the freshwater resources of the world are not partitioned to match the political borders, nor are they evenly distributed in space and time. Sharing a limited water resource by several stakeholders can create conflicts among them when their requirements exceed availability. In such situations, water allocation based on a traditional optimization or simulation modeling may not resolve the dispute among them due to the lack of their participation in …