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Risk is present in all aspects of water resources management, as in all other managed resources. It arises from uncertainty with respect to outcomes and their consequences, and the fact that some of consequences will be negative. In long-range planning for water resources management, the uncertainty results from the variability of hydrology in the coming years and the possibility of climate change over decades, as well as from the changing set of values and demands imposed on the water sector by society, directly and through its political bodies. In the shorter term, operation of water resources systems is subject to additional types of uncertainties, some resulting from geophysical hazards.
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Shamir, U. (2003). Risk and Sustainability in Water Resources Management. In: Beer, T., Ismail-Zadeh, A. (eds) Risk Science and Sustainability. NATO Science, vol 112. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0167-0_2
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