Using Engineering and Economics to Improve Water Resource Management
Event details
| Date | 11.10.2010 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Characklis, Greg (University of North Carolina, USA) |
| Location |
GR A3 31
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Water scarcity has become a growing concern in many regions of the world as population growth, economic development and ecosystem health all compete for finite water supplies. Projections for future increases in demand, as well as the uncertainties surrounding climate change and its hydrologic impacts, have many cities, regulators and regional planners rethinking their approach to water resource management. One of the challenges in doing so is integrating consideration of both engineering and economic factors into the development of improved strategies for managing hydrologic systems.
Water resource challenges have become common in both wetter and drier regions, and often involve more than just straightforward competition between consumptive water users. The discussion will begin with a description of some of the general factors impacting water resource management. This will be followed by a discussion of approaches for developing strategies for urban water supply systems and hydropower dam operations, each of which involve tightly linked networks of engineered, economic and hydrologic systems.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Parlange, Marc (EFLUM)