Journal articles: 'Water management; climate change'

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Lucero, Lisa J., Joel D. Gunn, and Vernon L. Scarborough. "Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management." Water 3, no. 2 (2011): 479–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w3020479.

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Kumar Goyal, Manish. "Climate Change and Sustainable Water Resources Management." Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste 24, no. 2 (2020): 02020001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)hz.2153-5515.0000496.

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Hanak, Ellen, and Jay R. Lund. "Adapting California’s water management to climate change." Climatic Change 111, no. 1 (2011): 17–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-011-0241-3.

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Farkas, C., A. Hagyó, E. Horváth, and G. Várallyay. "A Chernozem soil water regime response to predicted climate change scenarios." Soil and Water Research 3, Special Issue No. 1 (2008): S58—S67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/1410-swr.

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Climate, hydrology and vegetation are closely linked at local, regional and global scales. The recent land use and plant production systems are adapted to the present climatic conditions. Thus, studies on the influence of possible climate change scenarios on the water and heat regimes of the soil-plant-atmosphere system are important in order to work out plant production strategies, adjusted to changed conditions. In this study the effect of two possible climate change scenarios on the soil water regime of a Chernozem soil was estimated for a Hungarian site. Soil water content dynamics simulated for different conventional and soil conserving soil tillage systems were evaluated, using the SWAP soil water balance simulation model. The combined effect of different soil tillage systems and climate scenarios was analysed. Climate scenarios were represented through the cumulative probability function of the annual precipitation sum. The SWAP model was calibrated against the measured in the representative soil profiles soil water content data. The site- and soil-specific parameters were set and kept constant during the scenario studies. According to the simulation results, increase in the average growing season temperature showed increase in climate induced soil drought sensitivity. The evaluated soil water content dynamics indicated more variable and less predictable soil water regime compared to the present climate. It was found that appropriate soil tillage systems that are combined with mulching and ensure soil loosening could reliably decrease water losses from the soil. From this aspect cultivator treatment created the most favourable for the plants soil conditions. It was concluded that soil conserving soil management systems, adapted to local conditions could contribute to soil moisture conservation and could increase the amount of plant available water under changing climatic conditions.

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Nouban, Fatemeh, Serah Onuh John, Nura Yunusa, Alkasim Aminu, and Zachariah Madaki. "Water Resource Management, Quality and Climate Change in Nigeria." International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology 5, no. 6 (2020): 1166–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt20jun616.

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Nigeria is endowed with natural water resources abundantly, the country has substantial annual rainfall, large water bodies such as rivers, streams, lakes etc. and abundant groundwater reservoirs which are least developed and utilized which resulted in economic, social, environmental and health costs, such as a high rate of premature mortality and morbidity resulting from contamination of consumption, pollution of environmental and environmental resources, pollution and overexploitation of ground and surface water resources and low income and productivity. Therefore, enabling citizens with access to potable water is paramount. Although conjugate or integral water management or monitoring inhabited with limited studies even in Nigeria where over 57% of the population rely on groundwater source the management approaches is practically scanty while integral water use studied extensively, the study recognized the integrated water resources managements (IWRM), internationally recognized principles to support the effort of ensuring robust policy framework and appropriate investments in Nigeria’s fresh water resources to enable the citizens with unlimited access to portable water.

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Döll, P., B. Jiménez-Cisneros, T. Oki, et al. "Integrating risks of climate change into water management." Hydrological Sciences Journal 60, no. 1 (2014): 4–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2014.967250.

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Macleod, C. J. A., and P. M. Haygarth. "Integrating water and agricultural management under climate change." Science of The Total Environment 408, no. 23 (2010): 5619–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.041.

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Williams, Philip. "Adapting water resources management to global climate change." Climatic Change 15, no. 1-2 (1989): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00138847.

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Gaines, Sanford. "Adaptation of water management institutions to climate change." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6, no. 29 (2009): 292031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/29/292031.

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Chartzoulakis, Konstantinos, and Maria Bertaki. "Sustainable Water Management in Agriculture under Climate Change." Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia 4 (2015): 88–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aaspro.2015.03.011.

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Dziedzic, Sebastian, and Agata Twardoch. "European cities facing climate change: water management issue." BUILDER 288, no. 7 (2021): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.9350.

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The article provides an overview of spatial and legal solutions related to the issue of water management in cities in the context of climate change. The aim of the research is to identify the main differences between the traditional and integrated approaches to water-related infrastructure based on case studies of European Cities at different scales. Gathering, ordering and comparing adequate solutions will allow to establish guidelines for the development of Polish cities and point out directions for architects and urban planners designing urban spaces. The comparison of good examples with theory would make it possible to verify whether practise corresponds with theory, and whether it can actually - through the synergy of measures – bring new quality to urban areas.

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Allan, Catherine, Jun Xia, and Claudia Pahl-Wostl. "Climate change and water security: challenges for adaptive water management." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 5, no. 6 (2013): 625–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2013.09.004.

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Bouklia-Hassane, Rachid, Djilali Yebdri, and Abdellatif El-Bari Tidjani. "Climate change and water resources management of Oran region." Journal of Water and Climate Change 8, no. 2 (2016): 348–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2016.037.

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Our work aims to contribute to the literature on the prospective study of the water balance in the Oran region, a major southern Mediterranean metropolis, by considering the socioeconomic dimension of this region and the dynamic of its climate change through 2011–2030. These two dimensions are important for the analysis of future changes in water stress in the region because they affect both the demand and the supply of the water resources. Unlike other studies, our methodological approach is based on an explicit modeling of the socioeconomic evolution in the region as well as of the dynamic of climate change. For this, we used a time-series modeling framework to predict the effects of change in climate. In addition to the assessment of the effects of the socioeconomic and climate changes on the water balance of the region. Our results, based on simulations using the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) software, show that the current decoupling between the drinking sector from that of irrigation in the Oran region is not sustainable. Climate change will exacerbate this vulnerability. Only by integrating these two sectors, through a reuse of wastewater, can we consider the irrigation issue from a perspective of long-term sustainability in the region.

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Salas, Jose D., Balaji Rajagopalan, Laurel Saito, and Casey Brown. "Special Section on Climate Change and Water Resources: Climate Nonstationarity and Water Resources Management." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 138, no. 5 (2012): 385–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000279.

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Jenning, Sabine, Hartmut Hein, Stephan Mai, and Holger Schüttrumpf. "BREAKS AND LONG TERM TRENDS OF TIDAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SOUTHERN GERMAN BIGHT." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 33 (2012): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v33.management.32.

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The recent influence of climate change and land subsidence on the water levels and tidal characteristics in the German Bight is documented by regional tide gauge observations. However, in any long time series the chance arises that measurement conditions may change over time. Some of these changes occur instantaneously like the change of the sensor or corrections of the zero-point of the gauge. Other changes occur subtly, such as alterations of the regional morphology and therefore the mode of behavior at the measurement site. We present long-term changes of tidal characteristics in the waterways of the southern German Bight, by detecting abrupt breakpoints and resulting homogenized trends. In order to understand processes of the changes of the tidal characteristics significant trends in the time series for measured and calculated tidal parameters are analyzed.

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Papadopoulou, Maria, Despoina Charchousi, Katerina Spanoudaki, et al. "Agricultural Water Vulnerability under Climate Change in Cyprus." Atmosphere 11, no. 6 (2020): 648. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos11060648.

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This study focuses on the quantification of climate change (CC) effects on agricultural water availability in Cyprus. Projections of climatic variables, based on Regional Climate Models (RCMs) forced by the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 4.5 and 8.5, were used as CC driving forces affecting water availability. Groundwater flow models were developed for specific high-interest agricultural areas in Larnaca and Paphos to assess the CC impacts on these groundwater systems, while the Standardized Precipitation–Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) analysis was also adopted, for the first time in Cyprus, to assess future trends of water reservoir storage under the projected climatic conditions. Considering the current cultivation and irrigation practices, a decrease in groundwater level close to 1 m and further inland seawater intrusion in Larnaca aquifers are expected, while in Paphos’ aquifers, the predicted water table fluctuations are not significant. Additionally, SPEI values at the Asprokemos and Kouris dams are correlated with water storage measurements, showing that a SPEI downward trend observed in these reservoirs could set off an alarm to the water authorities with respect to water availability as more severe drought events are expected in the future. The expected pressure on surface waters imposes the need for an improved water management plan that will not depend on the further exploitation of groundwater.

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Egginton, Paul, Fred Beall, and Jim Buttle. "Reforestation – climate change and water resource implications." Forestry Chronicle 90, no. 04 (2014): 516–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc2014-102.

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In a forested catchment, river discharge in any season can be either decreased or augmented by forest management practices such as appropriate species selection, density management, and length of rotation. The efficacy of any such strategy in either new plantations or existing forests can be maximized by considering the distribution of the key hydrological functions in the catchment. With the growing awareness of climate change and its impacts, the adequacy of our water supply is becoming an issue of increasing societal importance. At the same time there is greater discussion about using our forests for carbon sequestration and biofuels. Policy-makers should be careful when introducing new programs that incentivize widespread reforestation. The implications of such planting programs on annual and seasonal river flows (under both current and future climatic conditions) need to be considered. Informed choices need to be made as to the objectives for which we manage our forests. In turn, this means that there is an urgent need for water managers and forest managers to work more closely together than in the past to optimally plan and develop forest and water management strategies.

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Ostad-Ali-Askar, Kaveh, Ruidan Su, and Limin Liu. "Water resources and climate change." Journal of Water and Climate Change 9, no. 2 (2018): 239. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2018.999.

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Arnell, Nigel W., Sarah J. Halliday, Richard W. Battarbee, Richard A. Skeffington, and Andrew J. Wade. "The implications of climate change for the water environment in England." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 39, no. 1 (2015): 93–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133314560369.

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This paper reviews the implications of climate change for the water environment and its management in England. There is a large literature, but most studies have looked at flow volumes or nutrients and none have considered explicitly the implications of climate change for the delivery of water management objectives. Studies have been undertaken in a small number of locations. Studies have used observations from the past to infer future changes, and have used numerical simulation models with climate change scenarios. The literature indicates that climate change poses risks to the delivery of water management objectives, but that these risks depend on local catchment and water body conditions. Climate change affects the status of water bodies, and it affects the effectiveness of measures to manage the water environment and meet policy objectives. The future impact of climate change on the water environment and its management is uncertain. Impacts are dependent on changes in the duration of dry spells and frequency of ‘flushing’ events, which are highly uncertain and not included in current climate scenarios. There is a good qualitative understanding of ways in which systems may change, but interactions between components of the water environment are poorly understood. Predictive models are only available for some components, and model parametric and structural uncertainty has not been evaluated. The impacts of climate change depend on other pressures on the water environment in a catchment, and also on the management interventions that are undertaken to achieve water management objectives. The paper has also developed a series of consistent conceptual models describing the implications of climate change for pressures on the water environment, based around the source-pathway-receptor concept. They provide a framework for a systematic assessment across catchments and pressures of the implications of climate change for the water environment and its management.

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Freas, Kathy, and Armin Munévar. "Total Water Management: Managing the Water Cycle for Climate Change Solutions." Water Environment Research 80, no. 4 (2008): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1554-7531.2008.tb00341.x.

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Puharinen, Suvi-Tuuli. "Good Status in the Changing Climate?—Climate Proofing Law on Water Management in the EU." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (2021): 517. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020517.

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Climate change impacts constitute a major risk to the attainment of water policy objectives. This article analyses the resilience of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the light of the challenges that climate change brings to achieving the Directive’s objectives, no-deterioration and good status of surface waters and groundwater. The WFD includes mechanisms to adapt the water management objectives to climate change impacts, including redefining good status and application of exemptions. However, more harmonised efforts at the EU level would be needed to ensure an equal level of ambition and continuity in the water management objectives capacity to steer towards sustainable regime shifts.

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Puharinen, Suvi-Tuuli. "Good Status in the Changing Climate?—Climate Proofing Law on Water Management in the EU." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (2021): 517. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020517.

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Climate change impacts constitute a major risk to the attainment of water policy objectives. This article analyses the resilience of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the light of the challenges that climate change brings to achieving the Directive’s objectives, no-deterioration and good status of surface waters and groundwater. The WFD includes mechanisms to adapt the water management objectives to climate change impacts, including redefining good status and application of exemptions. However, more harmonised efforts at the EU level would be needed to ensure an equal level of ambition and continuity in the water management objectives capacity to steer towards sustainable regime shifts.

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Yasarer, Lindsey M. W., Belinda S. M. Sturm, and Stacey Swearingen White. "Climate Change and Kansas Water Management: Perspectives and Opportunities." Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 119, no. 2 (2016): 113–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1660/062.119.0201.

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Tung, Ching-Pin, Ting-Chuan Lee, Wei-Ting Liao, and Yun-Ju Chen. "Climate Change Impact Assessment for Sustainable Water Quality Management." Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 23, no. 5 (2012): 565. http://dx.doi.org/10.3319/tao.2012.05.22.01(wmh).

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Stakhiv, Eugene Z. "Pragmatic Approaches for Water Management Under Climate Change Uncertainty1." JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 47, no. 6 (2011): 1183–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00589.x.

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Teegavarapu, Ramesh S. V. "Modeling climate change uncertainties in water resources management models." Environmental Modelling & Software 25, no. 10 (2010): 1261–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.025.

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Pingale, Santosh M., Mahesh K. Jat, and Deepak Khare. "Integrated urban water management modelling under climate change scenarios." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 83 (February 2014): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.10.006.

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Georgiou, Pantazis E., and Dimitrios K. Karpouzos. "Optimal irrigation water management for adaptation to climate change." International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics 3, no. 4 (2017): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijsami.2017.090608.

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Georgiou, Pantazis E., and Dimitrios K. Karpouzos. "Optimal irrigation water management for adaptation to climate change." International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics 3, no. 4 (2017): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijsami.2017.10011777.

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Cashman, Adrian, Leonard Nurse, and Charlery John. "Climate Change in the Caribbean: The Water Management Implications." Journal of Environment & Development 19, no. 1 (2009): 42–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1070496509347088.

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Valdés-Pineda, Rodrigo, Roberto Pizarro, Pablo García-Chevesich, et al. "Water governance in Chile: Availability, management and climate change." Journal of Hydrology 519 (November 2014): 2538–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.016.

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Giupponi, Carlo, and Animesh K. Gain. "Integrated water resources management (IWRM) for climate change adaptation." Regional Environmental Change 17, no. 7 (2017): 1865–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1173-x.

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Babaeian, Fariba, Majid Delavar, Saeed Morid, and Raghavan Srinivasan. "Robust climate change adaptation pathways in agricultural water management." Agricultural Water Management 252 (June 2021): 106904. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106904.

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Agus, Fahmuddin, Husnain Husnain, and Rahmah Dewi Yustika. "IMPROVING AGRICULTURAL RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH SOIL MANAGEMENT." Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian 34, no. 4 (2016): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.21082/jp3.v34n4.2015.p147-158.

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Climate change affects soil properties and hence crop growth. Several soil management practices potentially reduce vulnerability to unfavorable climate conditions. This paper reviews how climate change affects soil properties and how should soil management be tailored to increase adaptation capacity to extreme climatic conditions. The main symptoms of climate change such as the increase in the global atmospheric temperature, unpredictable onset of the wet and dry seasons and excessive or substantial decrease in rainfall are unfavorable conditions that affect crop growth and production. Several approaches, singly or a combination of two or more measures, can be selected to adapt to the climate change. These include conservation tillage, vegetative and engineering soil conservation, mulching, water harvesting, nutrient management, soil amelioration and soil biological management. Management of soil organic matter is very central in adapting to climate change because of its important role in improving water holding capacity, increasing soil infiltration capacity and soil percolation, buffering soil temperature, improving soil fertility and enhancing soil microbial activities. Organic matter management and other soil management and conservation practices discussed in this paper are relatively simple and have long been known, but often ignored. This paper reemphasizes the importance of those practices for sustaining agriculture amid the ever more serious effects of climate change on agriculture.

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Duca, Gheorghe, Maria Nedealcov, Serghei Travin, and Viorica Gladchi. "Regional Climate Change and Surface Waters." Present Environment and Sustainable Development 13, no. 1 (2019): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pesd-2019-0004.

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Abstract The actual period marred by the global warming requires expanding our knowledge on the regional particularities of climate changes manifestations as consequences of global climatic changes. It was stated that within the limits of Republic of Moldova’s territory the pace of warming is much more accelerated than the global one. These consequences, in their turn, had led to the increase in degree of evaporation of surface waters, which had conditioned the doubling of still water’s pollution in the region (Lake Beleu). We consider that the obtained results could contribute to the adequate management of water resources in the new climatic conditions.

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Mondal, A., and P. P. Mujumdar. "Regional hydrological impacts of climate change: implications for water management in India." Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 366 (April 10, 2015): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/piahs-366-34-2015.

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Abstract. Climate change is most likely to introduce an additional stress to already stressed water systems in developing countries. Climate change is inherently linked with the hydrological cycle and is expected to cause significant alterations in regional water resources systems necessitating measures for adaptation and mitigation. Increasing temperatures, for example, are likely to change precipitation patterns resulting in alterations of regional water availability, evapotranspirative water demand of crops and vegetation, extremes of floods and droughts, and water quality. A comprehensive assessment of regional hydrological impacts of climate change is thus necessary. Global climate model simulations provide future projections of the climate system taking into consideration changes in external forcings, such as atmospheric carbon-dioxide and aerosols, especially those resulting from anthropogenic emissions. However, such simulations are typically run at a coarse scale, and are not equipped to reproduce regional hydrological processes. This paper summarizes recent research on the assessment of climate change impacts on regional hydrology, addressing the scale and physical processes mismatch issues. Particular attention is given to changes in water availability, irrigation demands and water quality. This paper also includes description of the methodologies developed to address uncertainties in the projections resulting from incomplete knowledge about future evolution of the human-induced emissions and from using multiple climate models. Approaches for investigating possible causes of historically observed changes in regional hydrological variables are also discussed. Illustrations of all the above-mentioned methods are provided for Indian regions with a view to specifically aiding water management in India.

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Venterea, Rodney T. "Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change." Journal of Environmental Quality 38, no. 2 (2009): 837. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/jeq2008.0024br.

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Staben, N., A. Nahrstedt, and W. Merkel. "Securing safe drinking water supply under climate change conditions." Water Supply 15, no. 6 (2015): 1334–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2015.099.

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Water suppliers worldwide are challenged by climate variations, but so far only the qualitative change in boundary conditions has become clear but not yet the degree and impact on the water supply systems. Short-term quality changes in surface waters can, e.g. be caused by extreme rainfalls after dry periods. Longer heat periods without rain can induce middle-term quality changes in surface waters due to lacking dilution. Furthermore, unsustainable management of groundwater can lead to long-term quality changes and to water shortages, especially in times with higher water demand. Depending on the individual situation, the expected effects on the supply system differ widely, so a general adaptation strategy will not suit the individual problems. The purpose of our work is to enable water supply companies to systematically identify potential risks resulting from climate change and other external factors in a water safety plan approach, and to adapt the supply system in a most effective way by taking advantage of ongoing modernization measures and ‘no-regret’-measures. A suitable adaptation strategy should address climate change conditions as well as other external factors like changing water demand and also to take into account possible effects on every part of the supply system.

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Alamanos, Angelos, Stamatis Sfyris, Chrysostomos Fafoutis, and Nikitas Mylopoulos. "Urban water demand assessment for sustainable water resources management, under climate change and socioeconomic changes." Water Supply 20, no. 2 (2019): 679–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2019.199.

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Abstract The relationship between water abstraction and water availability has turned into a major stress factor in the urban exploitation of water resources. The situation is expected to be sharpened in the future due to the intensity of extreme meteorological phenomena, and socio-economic changes affecting water demand. In the city of Volos, Greece, the number of water counters has been tripled during the last four decades. This study attempts to simulate the city's network, supply system and water demand through a forecasting model. The forecast was examined under several situations, based on climate change and socio-economic observations of the city, using meteorological, water pricing, users' income, level of education, family members, floor and residence size variables. The most interesting outputs are: (a) the impact of each variable in the water consumption and (b) water balance under four management scenarios, indicating the future water management conditions of the broader area, including demand and supply management. The results proved that rational water management can lead to remarkable water conservation. The simulation of real scenarios and future situations in the city's water demand and balance, is the innovative element of the study, making it capable of supporting the local water utility.

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Rost, S., D. Gerten, and U. Heyder. "Human alterations of the terrestrial water cycle through land management." Advances in Geosciences 18 (June 20, 2008): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-18-43-2008.

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Abstract. This study quantifies current and potential future changes in transpiration, evaporation, interception loss and river discharge in response to land use change, irrigation and climate change, by performing several distinct simulations within the consistent hydrology and biosphere modeling framework LPJmL (Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land). We distinguished two irrigation simulations: a water limited one in which irrigation was restricted by local renewable water resources (ILIM), and a potential one in which no such limitation was assumed but withdrawals from deep groundwater or remote rivers allowed (IPOT). We found that the effect of historical land use change as compared to potential natural vegetation was pronounced, including a reduction in interception loss and transpiration by 25.9% and 10.6%, respectively, whereas river discharge increased by 6.6% (climate conditions of 1991–2000). Furthermore, we estimated that about 1170 km3yr−1 of irrigation water could be withdrawn from local renewable water resources (in ILIM), which resulted in a reduction of river discharge by 1.5%. However, up to 1660 km3yr−1 of water withdrawals were required in addition under the assumption that optimal growth of irrigated crops was sustained (IPOT), which resulted in a slight net increase in global river discharge by 2.0% due to return flows. Under the HadCM3 A2 climate and emission scenario, climate change alone will decrease total evapotranspiration by 1.5% and river discharge by 0.9% in 2046–2055 compared to 1991–2000 average due to changes in precipitation patterns, a decrease in global precipitation amount, and the net effect of CO2 fertilization. A doubling of agricultural land in 2046–2055 compared to 1991–2000 average as proposed by the IMAGE land use change scenario will result in a decrease in total evapotranspiration by 2.5% and in an increase in river discharge by 3.9%. That is, the effects of land use change in the future will be comparable in magnitude to the effects of climate change in this particular scenario. On present irrigated areas future water withdrawal will increase especially in regions where climate changes towards warmer and dryer conditions will be pronounced.

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Zhang, Yongqiang, Hongxia Li, and Paolo Reggiani. "Climate Variability and Climate Change Impacts on Land Surface, Hydrological Processes and Water Management." Water 11, no. 7 (2019): 1492. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11071492.

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During the last several decades, Earth´s climate has undergone significant changes due to anthropogenic global warming, and feedbacks to the water cycle. Therefore, persistent efforts are required to understand the hydrological processes and to engage in efficient water management strategies under changing environmental conditions. The twenty-four contributions in this Special Issue have broadly addressed the issues across four major research areas: (1) Climate and land-use change impacts on hydrological processes, (2) hydrological trends and causality analysis faced in hydrology, (3) hydrological model simulations and predictions, and (4) reviews on water prices and climate extremes. The substantial number of international contributions to the Special Issue indicates that climate change impacts on water resources analysis attracts global attention. Here, we give an introductory summary of the research questions addressed by the papers and point the attention of readers toward how the presented studies help gaining scientific knowledge and support policy makers.

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Asnaashari, Ahmad, Bahram Gharabaghi, Ed McBean, and Ali Akbar Mahboubi. "Reservoir management under predictable climate variability and change." Journal of Water and Climate Change 6, no. 3 (2015): 472–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2015.053.

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The potential effects of climate change on future water budget components and streamflow in the Mississippi River (Ontario) are assessed. Analyses of historic hydrometric data indicate an increasing trend in winter streamflows due to the rising winter air temperatures across the region over the latter half of the 20th century. These temperatures have resulted in reduced snow accumulation and earlier spring snowmelt. Projected future climate data are developed using the second generation Coupled Global Climate Model and downscaled using the change factor method for the Mississippi River watershed (Ontario). The projected future climate data are then used as input to a calibrated hydrologic model for simulation of future water balance and streamflows in this river basin. These simulations predict a gradual annual rate of change of: 0.1% increase in total precipitation; 0.2% increase in rainfall; 0.7% decrease in snowfall; 0.2% increase in potential evapotranspiration; 0.1% decrease in soil moisture; 1.4% increase in water deficit; 0.5% increase in streamflow during winter months; and 0.3% decrease in summer streamflows. Cyclic pattern analysis of the historic streamflow records suggests the existence of pronounced 3-year and 12-year cycles, providing short-term streamflow forecasting opportunities for optimum reservoir management operations during the wet-year/dry-year cycles.

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Stojkovic Zlatanovic, Sanja, Milan Stojkovic, and Mihailo Mitkovic. "Current state and perspective of water management policy in terms of climate change." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 10, no. 5 (2018): 796–811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-07-2017-0151.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out the policy guidelines and recommendations to harmonise the Serbian water legislation with European Union standards in the area of water system management as impacted by climate change. Design/methodology/approach The EU Water Framework Directive is analysed in the context of implementation of the integrated water management policy presented in the Serbian Water Law (2010), as well as the National Water Management Strategy (2016). It has been found that the water management legislation that deals with the impact of climate change on water resources is incomplete. Although there are numerous challenges related to research of climate change and water systems, water policy and legal aspects cannot be neglected. The so-called soft law instruments represented in a form of strategy documents could be a valuable response in terms of an adaptive and integrated water policy approach. Findings The research is applied to a case study of the Velika Morava River Basin, at Ljubicevski Most hydrological station. Long-term projections suggest a decrease in annual precipitation levels and annual flows up to the year 2100 for climatic scenarios A1B and A2, accompanied by a rapid increase in air temperatures. Originality/value This study proposes a water management policy and provides recommendations for the Velika Morava River Basin as impacted by climate change, according to the European Union legislation.

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Shah, Kavita, Prashant Kumar Sharma, Ipsita Nandi, and Nidhi Singh. "Water sustainability: reforming water management in new global era of climate change." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 21, no. 19 (2014): 11603–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-014-2812-0.

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Ludwig, Fulco, Erik van Slobbe, and Wim Cofino. "Climate change adaptation and Integrated Water Resource Management in the water sector." Journal of Hydrology 518 (October 2014): 235–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.08.010.

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Stern, Jon, and Xeni Dassiou. "The water industry, competition and climate change." Utilities Policy 18, no. 3 (2010): 113–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2010.08.001.

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Tanaka, Stacy K., Tingju Zhu, Jay R. Lund, et al. "Climate Warming and Water Management Adaptation for California." Climatic Change 76, no. 3-4 (2006): 361–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9079-5.

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Miller, Kathleen A. "Climate change: water rights and electric utilities." Energy Policy 17, no. 4 (1989): 420–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0301-4215(89)90013-x.

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Hamlet, A. F. "Assessing water resources adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15, no. 5 (2011): 1427–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-15-1427-2011.

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Abstract. Climate change impacts in Pacific Northwest Region of North America (PNW) are projected to include increasing temperatures and changes in the seasonality of precipitation (increasing precipitation in winter, decreasing precipitation in summer). Changes in precipitation are also spatially varying, with the northwestern parts of the region generally experiencing greater increases in cool season precipitation than the southeastern parts. These changes in climate are projected to cause loss of snowpack and associated streamflow timing shifts which will increase cool season (October–March) flows and decrease warm season (April–September) flows and water availability. Hydrologic extremes such as the 100 yr flood and extreme low flows are also expected to change, although these impacts are not spatially homogeneous and vary with mid-winter temperatures and other factors. These changes have important implications for natural ecosystems affected by water, and for human systems. The PNW is endowed with extensive water resources infrastructure and well-established and well-funded management agencies responsible for ensuring that water resources objectives (such as water supply, water quality, flood control, hydropower production, environmental services, etc.) are met. Likewise, access to observed hydrological, meteorological, and climatic data and forecasts is in general exceptionally good in the United States and Canada, and is often supported by federally funded programs that ensure that these resources are freely available to water resources practitioners, policy makers, and the general public. Access to these extensive resources support the argument that at a technical level the PNW has high capacity to deal with the potential impacts of natural climate variability on water resources. To the extent that climate change will manifest itself as moderate changes in variability or extremes, we argue that existing water resources infrastructure and institutional arrangements provide a reasonably solid foundation for coping with climate change impacts, and that the mandates of existing water resources policy and water resources management institutions are at least consistent with the fundamental objectives of climate change adaptation. A deeper inquiry into the underlying nature of PNW water resources systems, however, reveals significant and persistent obstacles to climate change adaptation, which will need to be overcome if effective use of the region's extensive water resources management capacity can be brought to bear on this problem. Primary obstacles include assumptions of stationarity as the fundamental basis of water resources system design, entrenched use of historical records as the sole basis for planning, problems related to the relatively short time scale of planning, lack of familiarity with climate science and models, downscaling procedures, and hydrologic models, limited access to climate change scenarios and hydrologic products for specific water systems, and rigid water allocation and water resources operating rules that effectively block adaptive response. Institutional barriers include systematic loss of technical capacity in many water resources agencies following the dam building era, jurisdictional fragmentation affecting response to drought, disconnections between water policy and practice, and entrenched bureaucratic resistance to change in many water management agencies. These factors, combined with a federal agenda to block climate change policy in the US during the Bush administration have (with some exceptions) contributed to widespread institutional "gridlock" in the PNW over the last decade or so despite a growing awareness of climate change as a significant threat to water management. In the last several years, however, significant progress has been made in surmounting some of these obstacles, and the region's water resources agencies at all levels of governance are making progress in addressing the fundamental challenges inherent in adapting to climate change.

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Hamlet, A. F. "Assessing water resources adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the Pacific Northwest Region of North America." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 7, no. 4 (2010): 4437–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hessd-7-4437-2010.

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Abstract. Climate change impacts in Pacific Northwest Region of North America (PNW) are projected to include increasing temperatures and changes in the seasonality of precipitation (increasing precipitation in winter, decreasing precipitation in summer). Changes in precipitation are also spatially varying, with the northwestern parts of the region generally experiencing greater increases in cool season precipitation than the southeastern parts. These changes in climate are projected to cause loss of snowpack and associated streamflow timing shifts which will increase cool season (October–March) flows and decrease warm season (April–September) flows and water availability. Hydrologic extremes such as the 100 year flood and extreme low flows are also expected to change, although these impacts are not spatially homogeneous and vary with mid-winter temperatures and other factors. These changes have important implications for natural ecosystems affected by water, and for human systems. The PNW is endowed with extensive water resources infrastructure and well-established and well-funded management agencies responsible for ensuring that water resources objectives (such as water supply, water quality, flood control, hydropower production, environmental services, etc.) are met. Likewise, access to observed hydrological, meteorological, and climatic data and forecasts is in general exceptionally good in the United States and Canada, and access to these products and services is often supported by federally funded programs that ensure that these resources are available to water resources practitioners, policy makers, and the general public. Access to these extensive resources support the argument that at a technical level the PNW has high capacity to deal with the potential impacts of natural climate variability on water resources. To the extent that climate change will manifest itself as moderate changes in variability or extremes, we argue that existing water resources infrastructure and institutional arrangements provide a solid foundation for coping with climate change impacts, and that the mandates of existing water resources policy and water resources management institutions are at least consistent with the fundamental objectives of climate change adaptation. A deeper inquiry into the underlying nature of PNW water resources systems, however, reveals significant and persistent obstacles to climate change adaptation, which will need to be overcome if effective use of the region's extensive water resources management capacity can be brought to bear on this problem. Primary obstacles include assumptions of stationarity as the fundamental basis of water resources system design, entrenched use of historic records as the sole basis for planning, problems related to the relatively short time scale of planning, lack of familiarity with climate science and models, downscaling procedures, and hydrologic models, limited access to climate change scenarios and hydrologic products for specific water systems, and rigid water allocation and water resources operating rules that effectively block adaptive response. Institutional barriers include systematic loss of technical capacity in many water resources agencies following the dam building era, jurisdictional fragmentation affecting response to drought, disconnections between water policy and practice, and entrenched bureaucratic resistance to change in many water management agencies. These factors, combined with a federal agenda to block climate change policy in the US during the Bush administration has (with some exceptions) led to institutional "gridlock" in the PNW over the last decade or so despite a growing awareness of climate change as a significant threat to water management. In the last several years, however, significant progress has been made in surmounting these obstacles, and the region's water resources agencies at all levels of governance are making progress in addressing the fundamental challenges inherent in adapting to climate change.

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