2nd WEAP Regional Conference: Applying a Decision Support System as a Tool for Integrated Water Resources Management and Climate Change Adaptation
Information to the first WEAP conference can be found here.
• WEAP applications mainly in the field of
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Water Quality
Water Resources are very scarce in the Arab region. Recent climate change models predict even more severe conditions for the future, due to increasing temperatures and decreasing precipitation.
Therefore it is important that water resources are managed carefully in a sustainable way following the IWRM concept. This is a very difficult task and reliable tools are needed to support the management and planning.
The application of the Decision Support System (DSS) WEAP-MODFLOW in Soil and Groundwater Management will give decision makers the necessary insight into the current status and possible scenarios of the future development. The methodology proposed can guide decisions with regard to population growth (increasing demand) and climate change (dwindling resources). Visualizing the actual situation and future scenarios and discuss possibilities of sharing the water with the stakeholders can reduce conflicts between concurrent water-users.
The DSS software provides the necessary information base for a sustainable IWRM concept and help to overcome the key problem, which is the insufficient knowledge of the hydrological system and thus the available water resources. Applying the methodology in decision making can avoid overexploitation and water quality deterioration.
It is also the main task of the Arab Water Ministerial Council to adopt a water policy based on sustainability.
Contact information |
Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD) Dr. Abdallah Droubi P.O.Box: 2440 Damascus, Syria / / German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Dr. H. Werner Müller (Project Coordinator)
(email: water_dep@acsad.org ; hanswerner.mueller@bgr.de) Phone: +963 11 5743039 / +963 964 503 264 |
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Event type | Conference |
File link |
http://www.acsad-bgr.org/activities/2ndconference.html |
Source | WEAP21.org |
Subject(s) | HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY |
Relation | http://www.acsad-bgr.org/files/ConferenceTunisRegistration.doc |
Geographical coverage | Tunisia, |
Address | Tunis |
Organizer | The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands, Syria (ACSAD) & Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany (BGR) / Local Organizers: National Institute of Agronomy of Tunisia (INAT) & Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Tunisia |
Target audience | International |
Period | [03/05/2011 - 05/05/2011] |
Status | Confirmed |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH , FRENCH |