Sustainable Water: Resources, Management and Challenges

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Veera Gnaneswar Gude, PhD (Editor)
Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Mississippi State, MS, USA

Venkataramana Gadhamshetty, PhD (Editor)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, USA

Ramanitharan Kandiah, PhD (Editor)
Department of Water Resources Management, International Center for Water Resources Management, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH, USA

Series: Water Resource Planning, Development and Management,
BISAC: TEC010030

Population growth, increasing living standards, and rapidly changing climate have resulted in an increasing demand for freshwater, accelerating the water degradation challenges. There is a compelling need to minimize water consumption and develop approaches to effectively manage existing water resources. On a positive note, water resource management strategies discussed in this book present innovative ways to conserve both quality and quantity. Chapter 1 discusses decentralized water management approaches for intervening the urban water cycle to minimize the environmental and socioeconomic impacts. This chapter concludes with a need to use a suite of tools based on decision support systems for managing urban water resources. Chapter 2 discusses the need for assessing suitability of various types of models for a specific scenario based on the required level of complexity. This chapter discusses in detail the underlying criteria behind model selection, validation, and uncertainty analysis.

Urban watersheds can be more challenging compared to natural watersheds. The urban watersheds include parking lots, roads, and developed structures, all of which contribute to a myriad of anthropogenic pollutants through stormwater runoff. Computer-based models can be used to study water quality issues and to develop a plan to manage watershed level resources. Chapter 3 compares pros and cons of the state-of-the-art watershed models used for managing water resources. Numerical simulations can be performed to compare the current and future water quality scenarios of a given watershed and to estimate the impact of potential water resource management strategies. Chapter 4 presents a case study of an urban region in Hanoi, Vietnam. Water evaluation and planning simulation tool was used to predict the trends and drivers of wastewater generation.
Considering rapidly changing climate and associated weather impacts, it is critical to secure water resources in addition to dealing with the water quality issues.

Chapter 5 suggests that climate change models and watershed and precipitation models should be jointly used in order to capture uncertainties in ecological functions, energy and food production and water supply sources. Chapter 6 presents a water use estimation and management tool that examines the effect of climate change and drought conditions on water supplies to ensure adequate buffalo forage. Sustaining both buffalo forage and water supplies during drought conditions requires preparedness and adaptation in response to unfavorable conditions. Finally, water reuse can alleviate the stress on available water resources. For example, effluents from wastewater treatment plants and desalination plants can be treated and reused for managing water crisis. Chapter 7 emphasizes that it is critical to optimize both economical and sustainability parameters during treatment of wastewater effluents and desalination concentrate. In certain cases, valuable metals can be recovered from the concentrate.

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Integrated Approaches toward Sustainable Urban Water Resources Management
(Seneshaw Tsegaye, Jong-Yeop Kim and Kristopher C. Gallagher, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, U.A. Whitaker College of Engineering, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, US, and others)

Chapter 2. Water Resources Modeling: Model Selection, Validation and Uncertainty Analysis
(Mengistu Geza, PhD, and Ali Shojaeizadeh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, US)

Chapter 3. Computer Tools for Urban Hydrology and Water Quality Management
(Jejal Reddy Bathi and Shuvashish Roy, Civil and Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN, US)

Chapter 4. Numerical Simulation to Quantify Present Status and Future Prediction of Water Quality of To-Lich River, Hanoi, Vietnam
(Pankaj Kumar, Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan, and others)

Chapter 5. Uncertainties in Water Supplies Due to Changing Climate and Extreme Weather Events
(Arumugam Sathasivan, Shashika M Korotta-Gamage and Ataur Rahman, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia)

Chapter 6. Buffalo Forage and Water Estimation: Management Decisions and Assisting Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments and Drought Management Adaptation
(Joseph M. Wilder, Kurt M. Chowanski, PhD, Scott J. Kenner, PhD, Venkata R. Gadhamshetty, PhD, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, US, and others)

Chapter 7. Resource Recovery from Reverse Osmosis Concentrate as a Solution to Water Crisis: A Technological Assessment
(Tabish Nawaz, Thinesh Selvaratnam, Center for Advances in Water and Air Quality, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, US, and others)

Index

 

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