Water Resources Systems Planning and ManagementElsevier, 2003 M09 12 - 882 pages This book is divided into four parts. The first part, Preliminaries, begins by introducing the basic theme of the book. It provides an overview of the current status of water resources utilization, the likely scenario of future demands, and advantages and disadvantages of systems techniques. An understanding of how the hydrological data are measured and processed is important before undertaking any analysis. The discussion is extended to emerging techniques, such as Remote Sensing, GIS, Artificial Neural Networks, and Expert Systems. The statistical tools for data analysis including commonly used probability distributions, parameter estimation, regression and correlation, frequency analysis, and time-series analysis are discussed in a separate chapter.
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... measuring and attempting to understand hydrological processes and developing techniques for control and management ... measurements which were the basis of revenue collection. Varahamihira (AD 505587), an ancient Indian philosopher, had ...
... measure progress towards achieving sustainable use of water resources; and help countries develop their own assessment capacity. The programme has its secretariat at Unesco and will publish a World Water Development Report at regular ...
... measure of how efficiently a country uses water for domestic, agricultural and industrial purposes. In the last factor, environment, which provides a measure of ecological sustainability, issues included are water quality, environmental ...
... measurements is very old. Kautilya initiated systematic precipitation measurements in India in the fourth century BC. Streamflow was probably first monitored by Hero of Alexandria in the first century AD. With development in water ...
... measurements which have an observation time associated with them and most water resources data have this property ... measurements which are made at regular intervals of time (hourly, daily); the values may be instantaneous, accumulated ...
Contents
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Decision Making | 277 |
Water Resources Planning and Development | 503 |
Systems Operation and Management | 613 |
Appendix A Conversion Factors | 843 |
Appendix B Useful Internet Sites | 845 |
Index | 849 |
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