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This introductory chapter introduces the challenges that the water professionals will encounter in water management and allocation of water supply, factors that impact the water availability, water-energy-climate change relationships, water transfer and the role of various stakeholders, and finally policy decisions deriving the investments needs for planning and maintaining water supply systems.
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Goodarzi, E., Ziaei, M., Hosseinipour, E.Z. (2014). Importance of Optimization Analysis. In: Introduction to Optimization Analysis in Hydrosystem Engineering. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04400-2_1
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