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Sustainable Water Resources Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 10657

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ali Torabi Haghighi

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Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
Interests: rivers; environmental engineering; civil engineering; hydrology; water resources engineering; hydrological modeling;hydraulics; climate change; environment; water quality
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Water demand is growing across the globe due to an increase in the population. It leads to threats in water resources, ecosystem collapse, and many socioeconomic impacts. In this regard, sustainable water resource development plays a crucial role in meeting the increasing water demand from the local to global scale. Addressing the spatial and temporal value of water in addition to developing new indicators for quantifying the concept of sustainability in water resources can help us to overcome current and upcoming water conflicts and scarcities.

 

The contributions to this Special Issue shall focus on a wide range of topics in sustainable water resources, including but not limited to:

 

  • Sustainable water resource development, water scarcity, and drought management;
  • New indicators for sustainable of water resource development;
  • Integrated water resource management;
  • Reservoir operation and sustainable water resource management in the context of climate change;
  • Unconventional water and sustainable water resource development;
  • Spatiotemporal value of water;
  • Water, food, and energy nexus in sustainable water resource development;
  • Managed aquifer recharge and sustainable water resource management;
  • Transboundary water resource management;
  • Prioritization of management, adaptation, and mitigation tools to optimize water resource development;
  • Interaction of different water demands with respect to availability of spatiotemporal water availability;
  • Case studies in sustainable water resource management.

Dr. Ali Torabi Haghighi
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainability
  • integrated water resource management
  • sustainable developments
  • water, energy, and food nexus
  • water scarcity
  • managed aquifer
  • reservoir operation
  • climate change

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Decomposition Analysis of Global Water Supply-Demand Balances Focusing on Food Production and Consumption
by Yohei Yamaguchi, Naoki Yoshikawa, Koji Amano and Seiji Hashimoto
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 7586; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147586 - 7 Jul 2021
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Food production and consumption require large amounts of freshwater. There is no literature on the decomposition analysis of the intensities of water supply-demand balances (water balance intensities) for each country worldwide. The aim of this study is to evaluate the water balance intensities [...] Read more.
Food production and consumption require large amounts of freshwater. There is no literature on the decomposition analysis of the intensities of water supply-demand balances (water balance intensities) for each country worldwide. The aim of this study is to evaluate the water balance intensities and elucidate the promoting factors and offset factors of water balance intensities for each country worldwide, focusing on food supply-demand balances and considering food trade balances on a global scale. The modified Laspeyres index method is applied to both a production-based water balance index (WBIPB) and a consumption-based water balance index (WBICB). The major promoting factor for the WBIPB is the renewable freshwater resources, whereas the major offset factor is the produced item preference. The major promoting factor for the WBICB is the consumed item preference, whereas the major offset factor is the producing area preference. Improving irrigation efficiencies of rice and cereals is effective because rice requires the largest blue water footprint intensities, considering irrigation efficiency on a calorie content basis in all of the items, whereas cereals are the largest share of calorie-based production quantities in all of the items worldwide. This study provides the foundation for decreasing water balance intensities regarding food production and consumption. Full article
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Development and Evaluation of the Hydropower Reservoir Rule Curve for a Sustainable Water Supply
by Youngje Choi, Eunkyung Lee, Jungwon Ji, Jaehwang Ahn, Taesoon Kim and Jaeeung Yi
Sustainability 2020, 12(22), 9641; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229641 - 19 Nov 2020
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The Seoul metropolitan area in the Han River basin is searching for sustainable water supply options after recently experiencing an extreme drought. Building a new reservoir is a common way to alleviate water shortage, but this comes at a great environmental cost. The [...] Read more.
The Seoul metropolitan area in the Han River basin is searching for sustainable water supply options after recently experiencing an extreme drought. Building a new reservoir is a common way to alleviate water shortage, but this comes at a great environmental cost. The South Korean government granted permission to add on a water supply function for the Hwacheon Reservoir, the largest hydropower reservoir in Korea, for the first time in the history. This study develops a new rule curve for the Hwacheon Reservoir to supply water and generate energy at the same time, considering the status of other reservoirs in the Han River basin. The simulation model uses two scenarios, with scenario 1 simulating historic operation and scenario 2 applying the deficit supply method. The new rule curve was formulated based on the results from scenario 2. Time-based and volumetric reliability increased by 33% and 4%, respectively, and resiliency more than doubled compared to the historic reservoir operation. This is the first case study in South Korea that demonstrates how to successfully integrate a water supply function into an existing hydropower reservoir. This study can be applied and extended to other river basins in an attempt to alleviate water shortages by adding new functions to existing reservoirs. Full article
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Prediction and Maintenance of Water Resources Carrying Capacity in Mining Area—A Case Study in the Yu-Shen Mining Area
by Yujun Xu, Liqiang Ma and Naseer Muhammad Khan
Sustainability 2020, 12(18), 7782; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187782 - 21 Sep 2020
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The problem of water resources damage caused by coal mining has restricted the sustainable development of Yu-Shen mining area. Illustrating the relationship between mining and water resources carrying capacity is of great significance to solve this problem. In this study, the authors proposed [...] Read more.
The problem of water resources damage caused by coal mining has restricted the sustainable development of Yu-Shen mining area. Illustrating the relationship between mining and water resources carrying capacity is of great significance to solve this problem. In this study, the authors proposed an appraisal and prediction model of water resource carrying capacity in the mining area (WRCCMA) based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. A triple-leveled structure model was developed, and the main influencing factors of the WRCCMA and the membership functions were analyzed. The prediction model was applied to Yubujie colliery to test its validity by investigating the changes of vegetation coverage and the ground deformation of the colliery and its adjacent coal mine before and after mining. Subsequently, we obtained the WRCCMA of the study area and zoning map of different grades of WRCCMA in the mining area by applying this model to the whole Yu-Shen mining area. Furthermore, three countermeasures to maintain the WRCCMA and realize water conservation coal mining (WCCM) were provided to collieries with different WRCCMA grades, including mining methods selection, mine water reutilization, and water-resisting layer reconstruction. Reasonable mining methods and water-resisting layer reconstruction can reduce the development of water conductive fractures and thus prevent groundwater from penetrating into the goaf. Mine water reutilization provides a source of water demand for collieries and families, contributing to the reduction of abstraction of water resources. These three countermeasures can help to maintain the WRCCMA. This paper successfully combines the fuzzy theory with mining engineering and provides theoretical and practical guidance for other mining areas in arid and semi-arid regions of Northwest China. Full article
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Quantifying the Individual Contributions of Climate Change, Dam Construction, and Land Use/Land Cover Change to Hydrological Drought in a Marshy River
by Peng Qi, Y. Jun Xu and Guodong Wang
Sustainability 2020, 12(9), 3777; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093777 - 6 May 2020
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Hydrological drought for marshy rivers is poorly characterized and understood. Our inability to quantify hydrological drought in marshy river environments stems from the lack of understanding how wetland loss in a river basin could potentially change watershed structure, attenuation, storage, and flow characteristics. [...] Read more.
Hydrological drought for marshy rivers is poorly characterized and understood. Our inability to quantify hydrological drought in marshy river environments stems from the lack of understanding how wetland loss in a river basin could potentially change watershed structure, attenuation, storage, and flow characteristics. In this study, hydrological drought in a marshy river in far Northeast China at a higher latitude was assessed with a streamflow drought index (SDI). A deterministic, lumped, and conceptual Rainfall–Runoff model, the NAM (Nedbor Afstromnings Model), was used to quantify the individual contributions of climate change, land use/land cover (LULC) change, and river engineering to hydrological drought. We found that in the last five decades, the frequency of hydrological droughts has been 55% without considering LULC change and reservoir construction in this wetland-abundant area. The frequency of hydrological drought increased by 8% due to land use change and by 19% when considering both the impacts of LULC change and a reservoir construction (the Longtouqiao Reservoir). In addition to the more frequent occurrence of hydrological droughts, human activities have also increased drought intensity. These findings suggest that LULC and precipitation changes play a key role in hydrological drought, and that the effect can be significantly modified by a river dam construction. Full article
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