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Climate-environment-water: integrated and non-integrated approaches to reservoir operation

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Integrated water planning and management face multiple challenges, among which are the competing interests of several water-using sectors and changing climatic trends. This paper presents integrated and non-integrated climate-environment-water approaches for reservoir operation, illustrated with Karkhe reservoir, Iran. Reservoir operation objectives are meeting municipal, environmental, and agricultural water demands. Results show the integrated approach, which relies on multi-objective optimization of municipal, environmental, and agricultural water supply, improves the municipal, environmental, and agricultural objectives by 70, 32, and 65% compared with the objectives’ values achieved with the non-integrated approach, which implements a standard operating policy.

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This research received financial support from the National Elites Foundation and Iran’s National Science Foundation (INSF).

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  1. Department of Irrigation & Reclamation Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Tehran, Iran

    Elahe Fallah-Mehdipour & Omid Bozorg-Haddad

  2. National Elites Foundation, Tehran, Iran

    Elahe Fallah-Mehdipour

  3. Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93016-4060, USA

    Hugo A. Loáiciga

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Fallah-Mehdipour, E., Bozorg-Haddad, O. & Loáiciga, H.A. Climate-environment-water: integrated and non-integrated approaches to reservoir operation. Environ Monit Assess 192, 60 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-8039-2

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