Abstract
In the Júcar River Basin, water scarcity and hydrological variability produce frequent and long hydrological droughts. Preparation for droughts is achieved through (a) integrated river basin planning, including proactive measures that minimize the risk of operative droughts (i.e., failure of the system to provide water services); (b) special drought plans, including continuous monitoring of drought indexes in order to detect the risk in medium- to short-term management, and sets of proactive and reactive measures for different scenarios (i.e., normal, pre-alert, alert, and emergency); and (c) participatory drought management by means of a special drought committee, to mitigate the impact of droughts and find suitable compromise solutions to provide an equilibrium between economic sectors needs and environmental protection. We will illustrate how these three processes were applied in the recent 2005/2008 drought, and highlight the importance of up-to-date integrative decision support systems in enhancing and facilitating our ability to address drought.
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Notes
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Basin plans and Special Drought Plans can be found at the Web pages of the Spanish basin authorities, which in turn can be reached trough the Web page of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Environment: www.magrama.es
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A great deal of information about the CHJ and its basins can be found in CHJ 2005, and is available at CHJ website (www.chj.es). Therefore, only the relevant information needed for understanding the chapter will be presented herein.
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1 hm3 (a cubic hectometer) = 1 MCM (one million of cubic meters) = 1 Gl (one gigaliter) = 109 l.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España (Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, CICYT) for financing the projects “SADIDMA” (contract CGL2005-07229/HI), “INTEGRAME” (contract CGL2009-11798), and “SCARCE” (Consolider-Ingenio 2010 CSD2009-00065). Thanks are also due to the European Communities for financing the projects “GENESIS” (FP7-ENV-2008-1), and “SIRIUS” (FP7-SPACE-2010). The authors would also like to express their gratitude to the Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar (Spanish Ministry of Environment) for the data provided to develop this study.
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Andreu, J., Ferrer-Polo, J., Pérez, M.A., Solera, A., Paredes-Arquiola, J. (2013). Drought Planning and Management in the Júcar River Basin, Spain. In: Schwabe, K., Albiac, J., Connor, J., Hassan, R., Meza González, L. (eds) Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6636-5_13
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