Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems

Monitoring and Evaluating the Water Cycle

Back to the basics of understanding ET W. James Shuttleworth		13
KSOM clustering as a possible cure for the wicked water problem of inadequate data for water resources planning Adebayo J. Adeloye & Rabee Rustum		35
Mathematical modelling of water resources at the University of South Australia John Boland		37
Basin water quality network design: optimum sampling sites located by information theory Janaína Bezerra Mesquita & Sergio Koide		39
A national water census: quantifying, forecasting, and securing freshwater for America’s future Matthew C. Larsen & Eric J. Evenson		41
Use of modern technologies in estimating unaccounted water uses in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia Awadhesh Prasad		43
Harmonisation of thematic maps in the European Union – setting up different types of environmental analytical maps Vanda Turczi, Philippe Quodverte & Jesús Reyes Nuñez		46
2	Linking Climate Change with Water Cycle Management
Groundwater and global hydrological change – current challenges and new insight R. Taylor, L. Longuevergne, R. Harding, M. Todd, B. Hewitson, U. Lall, K. Hiscock, H. Treidel, K. Dev Sharma, N. Kukuric, W. Stuckmeier & M. Shamsudduha		51
Practical approaches to water management under climate change uncertainty Eugene Z. Stakhiv		62
Towards risk-based river basin management as an approach to overcome wicked water problems Jos Brils		70
Assessing adaptive capacity of water governance regimes under climatic uncertainty Margot Hill		72
Creation of adaptation mechanisms: the key to more cost-effective and environment-friendly water management Inom Normatov, Uktam Murtazaev & Nabi Nasirov		74
Modelling water availability and climate change with satellite remote sensing data Ebenezer Yemi Ogunbadewa		77
Development of an integrated model INDOCLIM for understanding the future state of a river basin Heru Santoso & Hery Harjono		79
3	Parsimonious vs Complicated Approaches
A parsimonious modelling approach for water management in dryland areas Saket Pande, Hubert H. G. Savenije, Luis. A. Bastidas & Ashvin K. Gosain		85
An approach for matching accuracy and predictive capability in hydrological model development F. Fenicia, H. H. G. Savenije & L. Hoffmann		91
Time series-based soft computing tool for wicked water problems Bindu Garg		100
Hydrochemical characterization of groundwater in the Guadalquivir River aquifer in western Jaén: application of geostatistical techniques Rosario Jiménez-Espinosa & Juan Jiménez-Millán		102
Application of WMS in flow discharge prediction for the ungauged Wadi Bougous, Algeria K. Khanchoul, Z. Boukhrissa & A. Bouchebcheb		104
Modélisation des eaux de la Rivière Sebou, vers une gestion transdisciplinaire Mohammed Igouzal & Abdellatif Maslouhi		106
4	Whole-of-System and Adaptative Approaches
Modelling and decision making in water resource management Hector M. Malano		111
5	Need for Transdisciplinary Issues Approaches to Deal with Water-related Ecosystems
Hydroinformatics and ecohydrology tools for ecologically sustainable development in northern China Huili Gong, Jing Zhang, Demin Zhou, Xiaojuan Li & Yun Pan		129
Considering aquatic habitat properties in integrated river basin management – an ecohydrological modelling approach Jens Kiesel, Nicola Fohrer & Britta Schmalz		137
Managing the impacts of climate change on water governance Beatrice Mosello		140
6	Integrated Approaches
A spiral approach to IWRM: the IWRM Guidelines at River Basin Level Yasuro Nakajo		145
Management of annual runoff renewal as the tool for inexhaustible water use Elena Asabina		159
Water efficiency and effective water management – a shared responsibility Dagmar Bley & Günter Klein		161
International Centre for Coastal Ecohydrology – applying the Ecohydrology approach for the sustainable functioning of coastal ecosystems Luis Chícharo, Radhouan Ben-Hamadou, Ana Amaral, Pedro Range, Carmen Mateus, David Piló, Rute Marques, Pedro Morais & Maria Alexandra Chícharo		163
Climate responsive urban groundwater management options in a stressed aquifer system H. F. Gabriel & S. Khan		166
Increasing complexity of USGS hydrological modelling: GSFLOW, a coupled groundwater and surface water flow model Jo Leslie Eimers & Steve Markstrom		169
Challenges in solving the transboundary water disputes in India under a changing climate and environment K. Shadananan Nair		171
A UNESCO Regional Centre for Integrated River Basin Management in sub-Saharan Africa: NWRI Kaduna, Nigeria Owolabi Ajayi, Olusanjo Bamgboye & Dogara Bashir		173
Optimisation of agricultural drainage to manage irrigation salinity in Australia – an example from the Murray irrigation area, Australia Tariq Rana& Shahbaz Khan		174
Integrated water resources management: the case of the Panama Canal Basin Eda R. Soto		177
Utilisation des classifications d’Oldeman et de Schmidt-Ferguson pour l’aptitude culturale des sols à Batu, Indonésie Sandy Budi Wibowo		181
Water–energy nexus in irrigation supply systems using a demand-based dynamic nodal network model Aftab Ahmad, Shahbaz Khan & John Louis		183
7	Role of Knowledge Platforms for Community Engagement
Use of participatory scenario modelling as platforms in stakeholder dialogues L. Andersson, A. Jonsson,J. Wilk & J. Alkan Olsson		187
Water 2100: A synthesis of natural and societal domains to create actionable knowledge through AquaPedia and water diplomacy Shafiqul Islam, Yongxuan Gao & Ali S Akanda		193
RANA-ICE, a methodology to estimate compensatory runoff in Costa Rica Anny Chaves, Alexia Pacheco, Irina Krasovskaia & Lars Gottschalk		198
Watershed prioritization for effective water resource management Ab. Latif Ibrahim		200
Hydrological modelling in the Brazilian Water Resources Information System (SNIRH) Celso A. G. Santos, Cristiano Das N. Almeida, Amílcar Soares Júnior, Paula K. M. M. Freire & Francisco A. R. Barbosa		203
Motion charts for visualising long-term water quality in South African rivers Michael Silberbauer		205
8	From Artificial to Embodied Intelligence
Neural networks for water systems analysis: from fundamentals to complex pattern recognition Sandhya Samarasinghe		209
Water resource planning and management using motivated machine learning Janusz Starzyk		214
9	Water Allocation Dilemma
Challenges of sustainable management of the surface water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin Akhtar Abbas & Frank Walker		223
Maximising hydro-power generation within a multi-user water supply system L. Bapela, B. Mwaka, R. Cai & H. G. Maré		226
What is a real value of water used for irrigation? Sergei Schreider & Jonathan Plummer		228
10	Water Quality – a Critical Issue
Etude expérimentale des déformations du lit d’un canal à fond mobile: phénomène de sédimentation et erosion Cherif El Amine		233
Hydrology–climate–human health: a hydroclimatological approach to understand cholera transmission in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa Ali S. Akanda, Antarpreet S. Jutla & Shafiqul Islam		237
Complex assessment of particle-bound radionuclide redistribution in the Plava River basin (Central European Russia) V. R. Belyaev, N. N. Ivanova, O. Evrard, M. V. Markelov, E. N. Shamshurina, P. Bonte & I. Lefevre		239
Satellite remote sensing-based forecasting of cholera outbreaks in the Bengal Delta Antarpreet S. Jutla, Ali S. Akanda & Shafiqul Islam		241
Using a multi-component indicator to identify major variables controlling the health of water resources R. Kristiana, L. C. Vilhena, G. Begg, J. P. Antenucci & J. Imberger		244
Excessive fluoride in groundwaters of River Sindhanur catchment, South India: a case study from a hard-rock sub-basin with contrasting features Tejaswai K. Lakkundi		246
Integrated geological, geoelectrical and geochemical studies for groundwater resource evaluation in coastal areas of Sagar Island region, West Bengal, India Ranjit Kumar Majumdar & Debabrata Das		248
The wicked problem of suspended sediment profiles: a choice criterion Mira Sabat, Abdelali Terfous, Abdellah Ghenaim & Jean Bernard Poulet		251
Simulation of wicked water migration in shallow groundwater Seyed Reza Saghravani, Sa’ari Mustapha, Shaharin Ibrahim & Seyed Fazlolah Saghravani		253
Large dams as purification systems for toxic PCDD/PCDF and dl-PCB congeners Magdalena Urbaniak & Maciej Zalewski		256
Climate change and water management adaptation for China Wang Xiao-Jun, Zhang Jian-Yun, Wang Guo-Qing, Liu Cui-Shan & Bao Zhen-Xin		258
11	Managing Hydrohazards
Flood hazards in Nigerian cities, the Kaduna case study A. W. Alayande& O. A. Bamgboye		263
Groundwater flooding in Ukraine: what kind of management does it require? Oleksandr Chebanov & Iryna Konoplya		264
The role of science in solving wicked water problems – examples from groundwater management in emergency contexts Lucy Lytton & Paul Bolger		266
Influence of large water reservoir construction and filling on dynamics of Earth crust local tilts T. Matcharashvili, T. Chelidze, V. Abashidze, N. Zhukova, E. Mepharidze & T. Kobakhidze		268
Author index		271

Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems Kovacs Colloquium, July 2010  (IAHS Publ. 338, 2010), 1-10
Tools for analysing hydrocomplexity and solving wicked water problems: a synthesis
Shahbaz Khan, Hubert Savenije, Siegfried Demuth &
Pierre Hubert
ARE WATER PROBLEMS COMPLEX AND WICKED?
Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems Kovacs Colloquium, July 2010  (IAHS Publ. 338, 2010), 13-34
Back to the basics of understanding ET
W. James Shuttleworth

Department of Hydrology & Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 8721, USA

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Abstract Hydrocomplexity occurs when hydrologists realize that improved theoretical description of a hydrological process requires the representation of controlling features that hitherto had not been considered necessary. This paper makes a critical reappraisal of currently recommended methods for estimating the water requirements of irrigated crops, which reveals there is a fundamental theoretical inconsistency between present day understanding of the interaction between plant canopies and the atmosphere as represented by the Penman-Monteith (P-M) equation, and the procedures for estimating plant water requirements currently recommended by FAO. In the P-M equation, stomatal and aerodynamic controls on the transfer processes are expressed in terms of resistances which are embedded among the meteorological controls with crop-to-crop differences expressed in terms of different values for these resistances. However, the current procedure recommended by FAO for estimating crop water represents crop-to-crop differences as a simple multiplicative crop factor applied to an estimated evaporation rate calculated by the P-M equation for a single reference crop with fixed surface resistance and aerodynamic characteristics. Recent theoretical developments that allow adoption of the more robust P-M equation description of ET for all irrigated crops are reviewed along with an example application of this new approach to estimate the water requirements in the major irrigation districts of Australia. Broader adoption into irrigation practice of this method, which is known as the Matt Shuttleworth approach, is recommended on the grounds that it is consistent with present-day understanding of the evaporation process, is feasible and simple to apply, and will facilitate future adoption of realistic representations of the effect on evapotranspiration of plant stress and of crops with partial ground cover. However, when not all the weather variables needed to calculate crop evaporation rates are available, an estimate of reference crop evaporation may still have to be made by scaling down the measured evaporation loss from an evaporation pan by a “pan factor”. In the past the value of this pan factor has been defined empirically but recent research into the physics which controls evaporation from the Class A evaporation pan has resulted in a physically-based equation that describes pan evaporation in terms of ambient climate variables. This equation, which has been verified experimentally, allows a formal definition of the pan factor that is used to investigate theoretically how ancillary measurements (or estimates) of temperature and wind speed at an evaporation pan site might be used to improve the accuracy of a pan-based estimate of reference crop evaporation.

Key words crop evaporation; pan evaporation; evapotranspiration; crop water requirements

Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems Kovacs Colloquium, July 2010  (IAHS Publ. 338, 2010), 35-36
KSOM clustering as a possible cure for the wicked water problem of inadequate data for water resources planning
ADEBAYO J. ADELOYE¹ & RABEE RUSTUM²

1 School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK

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2 College of Engineering, Dammam University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems Kovacs Colloquium, July 2010  (IAHS Publ. 338, 2010), 37-38
Mathematical modelling of water resources at the University of South Australia
John Boland

Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Australia, Australia

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Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems Kovacs Colloquium, July 2010  (IAHS Publ. 338, 2010), 39-40
Basin water quality network design: optimum sampling sites located by information theory
JANAÍNA BEZERRA MESQUITA¹ & SERGIO KOIDE²

1 STN Ed.Toscana, Bloco B, apto 205. Asa Norte, Brasília – DF. CEP 70.770-100, Brazil

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2 Universidade de Brasília – UnB. Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Prédio SG12, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia Ambiental e Recursos Hídricos (PTARH), Brasília – DF. CEP 79.910-900, Brazil

Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems Kovacs Colloquium, July 2010  (IAHS Publ. 338, 2010), 41-42
A national water census: quantifying, forecasting, and securing freshwater for America’s future
Matthew C. Larsen & Eric J. Evenson

US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia 20192, USA

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Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems Kovacs Colloquium, July 2010  (IAHS Publ. 338, 2010), 43-45
Use of modern technologies in estimating unaccounted water uses in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
AWADHESH PRASAD

Murray-Darling Basin Authority, GPO Box 1801, Canberra 2601, Australia

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Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems Kovacs Colloquium, July 2010  (IAHS Publ. 338, 2010), 46-48