About Book

Water is a fundamental requirement for human life and well-being, thus proper management of water is a means to improve food production, reduce poverty and water-related diseases. Sustainable water management involves allocating water between competing purposes and users. Urban water refers to all water that occurs in the urban environment and includes consideration of natural surface water and groundwater, water provided for potable use, sewage and other ‘waste’ waters, storm water, flood services, recycling of water, techniques to improve water use efficiency and reduce demands, water sensitive urban design techniques, living streams, environment water and protection of natural wetlands, waterways and estuaries in urban landscapes. The book aims to develop a framework for the assessment of water resource sustainability under management practices, as well as to identify opportunities for sustainability. It deals with stream flow prediction, management information system and operational instrument, monitoring network design, evapotranspiration, water resources planning, urban forest, drought analysis, water resources community and urban development. Most of the topics introduced in this text cover new techniques and the applications of water resource management. It glances at the various subfields of this subject along with technological progress that have future implications. Coherent flow of topics, student-friendly language and extensive use of examples make this an invaluable source of knowledge.

Preface............................................................................................................v

Chapter 1 Drought Analysis and Water Resources Management Inspection in Euphrates–Tigris Basin..............................................................................1

Abstract...................................................................................................1

1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................2

2. Methodology..........................................................................................3

3. Results and discussion.........................................................................7

4. Conclusions..........................................................................................13

Acknowledgements.............................................................................14

Chapter 2 Application of Simulated Annealing in Water Resources Management: Optimal Solution of Groundwater Contamination Source Characterization Problem and Monitoring Network

Design Problems.......................................................................................18

1. Introduction..........................................................................................18

2. Methodology........................................................................................22

3. Performance evaluation......................................................................26

4. Discussion of solution results...........................................................28

5. Application of simulated annealing for monitoring network

design....................................................................................................35

6. Suitability and sensitivity of adaptive simulated annealing......36

7. Conclusion............................................................................................37

Chapter 3 A Program Management Information System for Managing Urban Renewals ....................................................................................................41

1. Introduction..........................................................................................41

2. Program management for urban renewal......................................42

3. IT and IS in urban planning and construction ...........................46

4. Concept of i-PgMIS ..........................................................................48

5. Developing i-PgMIS ..........................................................................52

6. Conclusion............................................................................................60

7. Acknowledgement...............................................................................61

Chapter 4 Advances in Streamflow Prediction: A Multimodel Statistical

Approach for Application on Water Resources Management ......63

1. Introduction..........................................................................................63

2. Data........................................................................................................65

3. Methodology........................................................................................68

4. Results...................................................................................................71

5. Conclusion............................................................................................87

6. Acknowledgment ...............................................................................89

Chapter 5 Comparison of Water Resources Community Self-Management

Mode between China and Tanzania....................................................96

Abstract.................................................................................................96

1. Introduction..........................................................................................97

2. Material and methods......................................................................102

3. Results.................................................................................................104

4. Discussion...........................................................................................108

Chapter 6 Dynamics of an Urban Forest in Response to Urban Development

and Management Initiatives — Case of Bukit Timah Nature

Reserve.......................................................................................................112

Abstract...............................................................................................112

1. Introduction........................................................................................113

2. Bukit Timah: The forest...................................................................115

3. Bukit Timah: The fast changing landscape..................................117

4. Methodology......................................................................................118

5. Data on changes around BTNR.....................................................120

6. Date analysis......................................................................................124

7. Management of current conditions at BT-NR.............................141

8. Conclusion..........................................................................................144

Acknowledgements...........................................................................145

Chapter 7 Development and Uptake of Scenarios to Support Water Resources

Planning, Development and Management – Examples from South

Africa..........................................................................................................148

1. Introduction........................................................................................148

2. The ability of scenarios to achieve impact in an uncertain world

with a focus on water planning, development and

management.......................................................................................152

3. Conclusions........................................................................................173

Acknowledgements...........................................................................175

Chapter 8 Effect of Climate Change on Spatio-Temporal Variability and

Trends of Evapotranspiration, and Its Impact on Water Resources

Management in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.............................180

1. Introduction........................................................................................180

2. Material and methods .....................................................................183

3. Results and discussion ...................................................................190

4. Conclusion .........................................................................................201

Acknowledgement ...........................................................................202

Chapter 9 City Image – Operational Instrument in Urban Space Management

– A Romanian Sample .........................................................................207

1. Introduction........................................................................................207

2. Urban space – Elementary operational entity in analysing

regional planning .............................................................................209

3. City image: A possible “key” to a good urban planning .......217

4. Case study: PloieŞti city (Romania). Integrating the city image

into urban planning ........................................................................224

5. Conclusions........................................................................................237

Citation......................................................................................................245

Index...........................................................................................................247

About Author

Idaku Menon received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Technical University, Yulin. He is an Associate Professor of Water Resources Engineering at Public University, Damyang. He has contributed dozens of articles and journals about urban environment, environmental pollution and environmental impact assessment. He has keen research interest on geographic information systems (GIS), geospatial analysis and modeling, water resources management, environmental planning, and urban planning. Menon was also awarded the “University Excellence in Teaching” award for his outstanding contribution to the in the field of water conservation.