Edited by Larry W. Mays
UNESCO-IHP Urban Water Series - UNESCO Publishing / Taylor & Francis

This volume examines the integrated management of water resources in urban settings, focusing on issues specific to arid and semi-arid regions. The urban water management system is considered here as two integrated processes: water supply management and water excess management. The first six chapters provide an overview of the various aspects of IUWM in arid and semi-arid regions, with emphasis on water supply technologies, such as artificial recharge, water transfers, desalination, and rainwater harvesting. Water excess management is examined in the context of both stormwater management and floodplain management.

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Edited by Blanca Jiménez and Joan Rose
UNESCO-IHP Urban Water Series - UNESCO Publishing / Taylor & Francis

This book addresses issues associated with urban water risks. The first section of the volume describes risks associated with urban water systems and services. The volume then discusses the concept of risk management for urban water systems and explores different approaches to managing and controlling urban water risks. A concluding section presents case studies on managing urban water risks.

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By Slobodan P. Simonović
UNESCO Studies and Reports in Hydrology Series

This volume describes the 'systems approach' and its application to contemporary water resources management, focusing on three main sets of tools: simulation, optimization and multi-objective analysis. This approach is presented in the context of sustainable planning and development under conditions of uncertainty. There are two particular features of Managing Water Resources: its introduction of system dynamic simulation as a tool for integrated modeling and its coverage of the use of fuzzy sets for incorporating objective and subjective uncertainties. The book combines theory and practical examples, and includes programs and exercises on an accompanying CD-ROM. It constitutes both an advanced text for students of water resources and civil or environmental engineering and a practical guide for professionals.

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Waterway was a quarterly publication of the IHP Secretariat. It included news from the IHP Secretariat as well as from the IHP National Committees, project updates, regional reports, an NGO corner and other useful and current news.

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