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Water Resources and Environmental Management

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2022) | Viewed by 9006

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Dr. Stephane Couture

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MIAT, French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), Université de Toulouse, F-31320 Castanet Tolosan, France
Interests: risk; uncertainty; insurance; water; forest; agriculture; modelling; experimental economics; decision-making

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the face of current global changes, the availability and quality of water resources are under severe threat. Indeed, in all sectors related to water resources management, sustainable development is important for present and future generations. Indeed, multiple problems such as water shortage or flooding, as well as environmental pollution phenomena, are observed. The environmental dimension is therefore becoming present in the definition of rational water resource management principles. This requires a global, systemic, and interdisciplinary vision.

This Special Issue of the journal Water invites innovative scientific contributions that address water management at different local, regional, or global levels and integrate an environmental dimension to this management. This Special Issue concerns works addressing the link between water, climate change, and the environment, targeting the identification and evaluation of policies; quantifying the effects on environmental water management to public interventions, land-use change, or climate change; characterising the role of the decision-making process and its modelling; or formalising the interactions between all the biological, physical, and human processes involved. We invite contributions that address such challenges or other possible challenges but with a focus on environmental water management with quantitative and qualitative dimensions of management, as well as with, in a privileged way, a multidisciplinary approach.

Dr. Stephane Couture
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • water management
  • environment
  • quality
  • sustainable development
  • conservation
  • assessment
  • modelling and optimisation
  • politics

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Evidence-Based Indicator Approach to Identify Environmental Impacts of Cascade Dam Projects: A Case Study of Cascade Dam Projects on the Yangtze River
by Ang Chen and Miao Wu
Water 2022, 14(16), 2572; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w14162572 - 20 Aug 2022
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Policies for promoting sustainable development of dam projects in the world have always been an argument due to the negative impacts on ecosystems. How to improve the efficiency of identifying the impacts and main indicators in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process and [...] Read more.
Policies for promoting sustainable development of dam projects in the world have always been an argument due to the negative impacts on ecosystems. How to improve the efficiency of identifying the impacts and main indicators in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process and post environmental impact assessment (PEIA) process is a common topic. Since the rapid dam construction in the past decades, most dam projects in China have turned to operation period. In order to identify the main impacts and provide scientific bases for the decision-making process, we optimized and applied the decision-support prototype (DSP) toolkit on the cascade dam projects on the Yangtze River. Through the optimization of the module and tools, the modified DSP was more applicable for China’s dams. Though the modified DSP cannot replace large-scale assessments for dam projects, it would assist the EIA and PEIA process by identifying the most relevant environmental concerns and knowledge gaps at early stages of negotiation, so that more attention can be focused on subsequent studies and evaluative processes. On the other hand, some new limitations were found in our practice. In response to the limitations, we propose several suggestions: (1) SBQ: to introduce a factor to balance the proportion evaluation result of new developed dams and existing dams in the study; (2) SBQ: to consider more about interactions between cascade dam projects and their impacts on different spatial scales; (3) EEM, extend the parameters for generating EEM from dams in areas outside of the U.S. Full article
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Are Economic Tools Useful to Manage Residential Water Demand? A Review of Old Issues and Emerging Topics
by María Ángeles García-Valiñas and Sara Suárez-Fernández
Water 2022, 14(16), 2536; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w14162536 - 18 Aug 2022
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The analysis of residential water demand has long attracted attention from researchers. However, the central topics at issue have evolved considerably, transitioning from estimating price and income elasticities to using experimental techniques that assess how to motivate households towards water conservation. In this [...] Read more.
The analysis of residential water demand has long attracted attention from researchers. However, the central topics at issue have evolved considerably, transitioning from estimating price and income elasticities to using experimental techniques that assess how to motivate households towards water conservation. In this literature review, we contribute to the existing literature by giving an updated overview of the state of the art in the central topics regarding residential water demand. Moreover, we present some interesting lines of research to be explored in the future. Thus, we first review some traditional key drivers of residential water demand. Second, we discuss the role of public policies when managing residential water demand, paying special attention to pricing tools. Next, we briefly review some of the methodological issues with respect to traditional econometrics and discuss related modeling. We then discuss the role of experimental designs and nudging on residential water use. Finally, we include a summary of the main literature findings, and close the discussion introducing some emerging and promising research topics. Full article
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Assessment of Water Resources in Sana’a Region, Yemen Republic (Case Study)
by Alhasan Ahmed Aljawzi, Hongyuan Fang, Abdullah A. Abbas and Ebrahim Yahya Khailah
Water 2022, 14(7), 1039; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w14071039 - 25 Mar 2022
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Yemen is a water-scarce country with inadequate freshwater, considerable groundwater depletion, and a lack of adequate surface water. This study aims to assess water resources and identify the current water situation in Sana’a region, which includes the governorate of Sana’a and the country’s [...] Read more.
Yemen is a water-scarce country with inadequate freshwater, considerable groundwater depletion, and a lack of adequate surface water. This study aims to assess water resources and identify the current water situation in Sana’a region, which includes the governorate of Sana’a and the country’s capital, Sana’a city. A variety of data from different sources was collected and analyzed. Remote sensing (RS) and GIS techniques in combination with the Arc Hydro model were utilized. Water demand and supply for domestic and agricultural purposes were estimated. The results show that there is insufficient water to meet the needs of the region’s yearly population growth rates of 3.2 and 4.5% in Sana’a governorate and Sana’a city, respectively. The amount of observed rainfall varies spatially and temporally, ranging between 160 and 367 mm per year. There are 233 water structures, 168 dams, and 65 reservoirs, with a storage capacity of 64.65 and 0.24 Mm3 (million cubic meters), respectively. In Sana’a basin, groundwater abstraction increased significantly from about 25 Mm3 in 1970 to around 330 Mm3 in 2020, while groundwater recharge was about 80 Mm3 in 2020. The estimated water demand for domestic use was in the range of approximately 106–128 and 199–241 Mm3 in Sana’a governorate, whereas in Sana’a city, it was in the range of about 249–302 and 607–737 Mm3 for 2020 and 2040, respectively. The estimated agriculture water demand was between 1.14 and 1.53 Bm3 (billion cubic meters) in 2007, and declined to 801 Mm3 and 1.16 Bm3 in 2018 due to the reduction in the cultivated area by about 33% from 2007 to 2018, which was attributed to a lack of water. The estimated water deficit ranges between 500 and 723 Mm3 during 2007 and 2018. This study concluded that the estimated water supply and demand for the past 12 years from 2007 to 2018 resulted in a supply that was less than the demand in each year, indicating that the available water resources were insufficient to fulfill demand. The significant gap between water supply and demand means withdrawal from the stored groundwater. Thus, groundwater is at high risk. Constructing more water harvesting structures, adopting water conservation, water resource management, and making groundwater artificial recharge are recommended to meet the water demand and conserve non-renewable resources in the coming decades. The results obtained from this study would help decision makers to make appropriate plans to achieve the SDGs in Sana’a region. Full article
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