Climate change introduces substantial uncertainty to water resources planning and raises
the key question: when, or under what conditions, should adaptation occur? A number of …

Future water management will shift from building new water supply systems to better
operating existing ones. The variation of water values in time and space will increasingly …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

This paper presents a short history of water resources systems analysis from its beginnings
in the Harvard Water Program, through its continuing evolution toward a general field of …

As the global population grows, consumption of water, energy, and food will also increase,
placing stresses on these three sectors, raising the importance of the Water-Energy-Food …

Zayandeh-Rud River Basin is one of the most important basins in central Iran, which has
been continually challenged by water stress during the past 60years. Traditionally, a supply …

Climate change, water supply limits, and continued population growth have intensified the
search for measures to conserve water in irrigated agriculture, the world's largest water user …

This paper reviews current optimization technique developed to solve reservoir operation
problems in water resources. The application of conventional, especially evolutionary …

This paper presents a survey of simulation and optimization modeling approaches used in
reservoir systems operation problems. Optimization methods have been proved of much …

An aggregate drought index (ADI) has been developed, and evaluated within three diverse
climate divisions in California. The ADI comprehensively considers all physical forms of …