Special Issue "Hydrology in Water Resources Management"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface hydrology; modelling of hydrological processes; urban water management; flood; drought; climate change
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: hydrological extremes; flood; drought; risk; hazard; water management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The management of water resources is a complex decision-making process. Increasing anthropopression, climate variability and change, and environmental issues are affecting the demand and supply of fresh water. The distribution of water resources is subject to high spatial and time variability. For this reason, many regions around the world are experiencing significant problems related to water scarcity, drought, and various types of flooding. There is therefore increasing discussion of the potential to improve water resources through the development of water retention in basins. In general, there is still an urgent need to address issues surrounding water resources and problems with water demands as a result of different human activities. In addition, the impact of water demand on ecosystems and biota must not be neglected. Future responses to the water resource demand must be equitable, economic, and sustainable. Effective use of hydrology in the framework of integrated water resources management contributes to sustainable development, to assisting in the risk reduction of water-related disasters, and to supporting effective environmental management at basin, regional, and international levels. Moreover, hydrology plays an important role in the credible assessment of the quantity of water resources and the detection of spatio-temporal changes.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to exchange knowledge about the role of hydrology in the sustainable management and planning of water resources. We encourage authors to share their opinions, knowledge, and achievements regarding the impact of the environment and human activity on water resources, especially with regard to the quality of hydrological data, the use of modern in situ and remote data acquisition tools, the accuracy of measurements, the linkage between hydrological processes and ecosystems, assessment of the impact of human activity on water resources, flood and drought risks, water shortage assessment, modeling of hydrological processes, and the description of methods that can be applied to ecohydrology.
Dr. Andrzej Walega
Dr. Tamara Tokarczyk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- measurement of hydrological data
- satelite observation
- water scarcity
- droughts and floods
- trends in hydroclimatic variable
- modelling of hydrological processes
- sociohydrology
- risk and management
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
1.Title: Quantitative hydrological response of climate change and anthropogenic impacts on runoff characteristics of Kunhar River, Pakistan
Authors: Muhammad Saifullah 1, Muhammad Adnan 2, Muhammad Zaman 3, Dr. Andrzej Walega 4, Shiyin Liu 2, Muhammad Imran Khan 5, Alexandre S. Gagnon 6, Sher Muhammad 7
Affiliations: 1 Department of Agricultural Engineering, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture Multan, Pakistan
2 Institute of International Rivers and Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
3 Department of Irrigation and Drainage, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 380000, Pakistan
4 Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Management, University of Agriculture in Krakow, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
5 Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
6 School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
7 International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal
Abstract: Pakistan is considered as a highly water stressed country in the world and changing climate has devastating effects on its water resources. The present study was conducted to evaluate the overwhelming effects of human activities and climate change on stream flow of Kunhar River basin, Pakistan. A non-parametric Mann-Kendall test was applied to check the seasonal and annual variations among climatic variables. Double mass curve and flow duration curves were drawn to determine the changing trend of rainfall-runoff relationship. The overall result of precipitation of the basin showed significant increasing trends with Z-test value 2.68. The mean temperature showed significant decreasing trends with z-test value -2.15. But the stream flow showed no trend with Z-test value -0.51 on the basis of annual and monthly variations. SWAT model was successfully calibrated (1972-1981) and validated (1983-1996). SUFI-2 method was used in SWAT-CUP for calibration and validation. The coefficient of determination (R2) and Nash–Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) values were 0.83 and 0.7 for calibration and 0.8 and 0.67 for validation period respectively. By using method of reconstructing nature runoff, it was concluded that the total variations during post change period in stream flow was about 16.07m3/sec. About 86.13% changes were due to climate change and 13.865 % variations were due to human activities. It was concluded that the station Naran was more vulnerable to human activities climate change as compare to other stations. Because all other stations showed approximately no trend for all variables. The existing trends and variability which are caused by human activities (irrigation, urbanization, recreation activities etc.) and climate change have serious impacts on the river flows that should be considered by the water managers to conserve water for future.
Keywords: river runoff; hydrological process; climate change; SWAT model; trend
2. Title: Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Trends in Meteorological Droughts in the Wadi Mina Basin, Northwest Algeria
Authors: Mohammed Achite 1,2, Andrzej Wałęga 3, Abderrezak Kamel Toubal 1, Hamidi Mansour 2 and Nir Krakauer 4
Affiliations: 1 Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences, Laboratory of Water & Environment, University Hassiba Benbouali of Chlef, Chlef, Algeria
2 University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed, P. Box 1015 El M’naouer 31000, Oran, Algeria
3 Department of Sanitary Engineering and Water Management, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Mickiewicza 24/28 Street, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
4 Department of Civil Engineering, the City College of New York, New York 10031, NY, USA
Abstract: Drought has become a recurrent phenomenon in Algeria in the last few decades. Significant drought conditions were observed during years of late 1980s and the trend continued in the late 1990s. The agricultural sector and water resources have been under severe constraints from the recurrent droughts. In this study, spatial and temporal dimensions of meteorological droughts in the Wadi Mina basin (4900 km²) have been investigated from vulnerability concept. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) method and GIS was used to detail temporal and geographical variations in the drought vulnerability based on severity of drought events at annual time steps. This study is applied to rainfall monthly records for the period (1970–2010) for 16 rainfall stations located in the Wadi Mina basin. The annual SPI series trends of 16 stations in the basin for the period 1970–2010 have been analyzed using the linear regression, Mann–Kendall test and the Sen’s slope estimator. The results showed that the SPI was able to detect historical (several wet periods and several dry periods) droughts of 1982/83, 1983/84, 1989/90, 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2004/05 and 2006/07. However, the wet years were observed in 1971/72, 1972/73, 1995/96, 2008/09 and 2009/10. 6 out of 16 stations had significant decreasing precipitation trends (at 95% confidence), whereas no stations had significant increasing precipitation trends. Measures on how to ameliorate and mitigate the effects of droughts, especially the dominant intensity types on the people, community and environment were suggested.
Keyswords: Drought; Trends; SPI; Mina basin; Algeria