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River Basin Planning

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The demands on rivers increasingly

satisfy

exceed

environmental priorities.

planning includes developing various

resulting in over abstraction, water

The aim of strategic basin planning is

scenarios

quality issues, floodplain alteration

not

set

ranging from basin scale to sub

and habitat destruction. These failures

objectives, but to choose from a series

watershed level for assessment of

are usually the consequence of poor

of

water resource and water balance

decision-making,

objectives

their

natural

management

capabilities,

inadequate
and

social,

just

economic

to meet

possible

externally

water

those

and

management

that

will

best

conditions. Our expertise in Basin

of

hydrological

model,

under virgin and developed state. Our

inappropriate

contribute to a range of competing

planning. Effective basin planning is

economic, social and ecological goals.

central to sustainable management of

An integrated model basin scale

river. Water stands at the centre of the

model can be a reference from which

challenges

around

food

security,

changes

economic

development,

energy

strategies can be assessed. The

generation and climate change. Under

reference baseline includes a range of

these conditions, basin plans need to

conditions

infrastructure

Rainfall-runoff modeling

recognize and be aligned with broader

such as dams, entitlements and water

River basin modeling

economic development and planning

sharing

Water Quality with point and

objectives. In this context, strategic

environmental flow rules, etc. that

non-point

basin

affect

modeling

planning

is

coherent

to

water

including

rules,

and

based

hydrological

modeling

Water data collection and

analysis

Hydro

meteorological

observation and monitoring

water

source

pollution

Sedimentation modeling

managing basin water resources and

development models can be used to

Catchment Treatment Area

their users in order to identify and

understand

approach

to

The

rules,

GIS

without-

multidisciplinary

management.

management

operating

hydrology

services are:

how the

Basin

river

systems may operate under natural

Plan

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Crop water assessment and

irrigation efficiency

Scenario Analysis

Climate change

Best Management Practices

Optimization plan for multiple

reservoir in a basin

Simulate the use of irrigation

and land use scenarios

Optimized

water

allocation

strategies

Training and capacity building