Solution to the Water Crisis in the Zayandehrud River Basin; Joint Supply and Demand Management

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

2 Former M.Sc. Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

In the last decade, instability of flow in Zayandehrud river and growing drawdown of groundwater in Zayandehrud aquifers, causing serious concern for the public, decision makers and water managers at provincial and national levels. Therefore, the reasons and the causes of the crisis and how to create a stable flow on the Zayandehrud river and prevent of the loss of groundwater resources at all levels of decision-making at provincial and national levels, issues that are raised. In this paper, we investigate changes in water resources and demands at the scale of the basin to provide non-structural and structural solutions for the sustainable management of river basin and especially the sustainable flow in the Zayandehrud river. We categorized all implementations for demand management in agricultural, industrial and drinking water demands. Overall, the interbasin water transfer to the Zayandehrud basin is necessary and sufficient condition on the current situation is the demand management.

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Iran-Water Resources Research
Volume 12, Issue 4 - Serial Number 38
Special Issue on the 6th National Conference on Water Resources Management
February 2017
Pages 12-22

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  • Receive Date: 08 October 2016
  • Revise Date: 17 December 2016
  • Accept Date: 17 December 2016

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