Challenges and Opportunities of Using Models for Optimal use of Water Resources Systems

< p>In many large cities, the rapid pace of increasing water needs from the total resources available in the area on the one hand and the mismatch of peak supply with peak consumption on the other hand, has doubled the need for more accurate planning to meet needs and consumption management. These challenges, along with the occurrence of periods of dehydration and wetting, as well as crises caused by the failure of the supply system, transmission or distribution and widespread pollution in the system, have doubled the need to develop specific policies for monitoring and operation of the system. To achieve the above goal, it is necessary to increase the readiness of the system to deal with critical situations. The multiplicity of effective and influential components of water resources systems and the uncertainties we encounter in the modeling of these systems determine the need to further develop the necessary tools to assist in the decision-making process. Explain the framework of sustainability in water resources management. One of the most important challenges in this framework is to pay attention to uncertainties and the ability to quantify and model them. Among the main causes of uncertainty in water resources can be pointed to the uncertainties of physical, hydrological, water needs, quantitative and qualitative interactions in the flow of water, hypotheses in estimating parameters and calculations, and uncertainties in forecasts.

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Water ، supply policy ، Critical conditions ، Modeling