The management and protection of National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) requires local and regional inventories and assessments for the biological, physical, chemical, and hydrologic resources of each unit. Water resource Inventories and Assessments (WRIAs) are compiled by the U.S. Fi…
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Growing food demand has been the primary cause of increasingly unsustainable water consumption in the world’s breadbasket regions. This unsustainable demand can have steep human and environmental consequences, leading to physical and economic hardship among vulnerable communitie…
Global climate change is projected to have disproportionate adverse impacts on water quality and availability in low-resource settings. Therefore, it is essential that developing countries assess their vulnerabilities and develop strategies to improve their resilience. This thes…
The collapse of the Soviet Union left countries of Central Asia to experience political confrontations over territory and water rights. Additionally, independence of Central Asian countries resulted in the change of control systems, including transboundary rivers of the region. …
Many developing countries such as Palestine are simultaneously fiscally limited and acutely water constrained. It is vital that investments in water related infrastructure provide maximum social welfare per dollar spent. Furthermore, infrastructure must be designed to perform we…
The 1996 urban water sector reform in Senegal is not the sustainable development success claimed by its proponents. Privatization and cost-recovery management resulted in poor water and sanitation services unaffordable to many, increased access inequalities, and accelerated wate…
The main objective of the research is to examine the human and institutional interactions in urban water resources management in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the impacts on the resource. The study has three specific objectives: (1) to investigate in detail at a city level, using Ower…
The performance of irrigation systems in many parts of the world is generally perceived to be poor compared to design intentions and investment expectations. Lack of good water management causes this. Data covering climatology, pedology, agriculture and management, commonly coll…
Global water scarcity is rapidly increasing especially in arid countries such as Jordan and Israel. Under such conditions, local, state and national governments are facing the challenge of negotiating water allocation among different parties. This study focuses on the use of Sym…
There is a growing deficit between the volume of freshwater used by Israel, Palestine, and Jordan and the volume of freshwater that is jointly available to these countries on an interannual average basis. This deficit has led to myriad adverse consequences, among them the steady…
This dissertation analyzes water consumption characteristics of the United Arab Emirates from 1975 to 2000, and estimates the water resource needs of the country for the next 25 years. The dissertation utilizes ArcGIS software to construct a dynamic set of tools that allow easy …
This dissertation deals with the problem of transboundary common pool resources with applications to the Israeli-Palestinian Mountain Aquifer. Unrestricted access to resources and lack of individual accountability for overexploitation create the problem of free riding. Lack of c…
The Mesopotamia region, within the boundaries of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, is populated by different ethnic, national, and religious groups (Turks, Arabs, Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites), which have long fought over the control of its fertile lands. Since the early 1970's, there has b…
The Edwards aquifer controversy is a classic example of the transition which occurs when a common-pool resource governed under the institution of 'free capture' fails to meet all demands. As such, it provides opportunities for water planners to develop institutions which allocat…
In the last half century, there has been a remarkable expansion in the rate and scale of dam construction worldwide. Many of these dams have been successful in providing various economic benefits. However, reservoir sedimentation decreases useful capacity of dams, shortens their…
This dissertation investigates the tradeoffs between floodplain agriculture and fisheries production in the Brahmaputra river basin of Bangladesh, where both sectors are simultaneously affected by floodplain development policies. Our goal is to study the impact of development po…
Bayesian neural network (BNN) is introduced as an effective hydrological modeling tool for climate change impact study on water resources with uncertainty estimates. Uncertainty in climate change impact study comes from various sources of climate, downscaling, and rainfall-runof…
This research developed an integrated framework for conducting economic assessment of water resources infrastructures in the context of climatic and development uncertainty. Two levels of simulation make up the framework: the hydrological, based around the river basin routing mo…
Reservoir sedimentation is a serious threat to the long-term economic development of countries around the world. Often, upstream soil erosion due to agricultural activity contributes significantly to the problem. Appropriately designed soil conservation practices and reservoir s…