Abstract
Water management could be defined as the activities aimed at planning, developing, distributing and operating water resources, surface water, drainage and sewage. Some people distinguish between ‘water resource management’ (planning, developing and allocating the water resources) and ‘water management’ (the operation and control of water systems). Water system includes the water cycle and three major interacting elements: physical, biological/biogeochemical and human components (Craswell 2004). This chapter presents a review of the main water management approaches that have been introduced over the last decades through water supply management (WSM), water demand management (WDM) and integrated water resource management (IWRM). The chapter discusses if these approaches could deal with the challenges and uncertainty in the water management in a sustainable manner.
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The idea of sustainable development is supported by the United Nations (1987) that declares that social, environmental and economic goals should be pursued simultaneously. Sustainability issue implies that change in one of these areas would result in at least the possibility of an impact on the other two.
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The term water supply management (WSM ) is used in this book to refer to the set of approaches used in water management that are dominated by the development of new water supplies.
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The term of ‘water conservation’ has been the centre of WDM attention and can be referred to any reduction in water use or water losses (Baumann et al. 1984).
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Edalat, F.D., Abdi, M.R. (2018). Concepts and Approaches of Main Water Managements. In: Adaptive Water Management. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 258. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64143-0_2
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