Retraction Note: Water Resources Management (2020) 34:3257-3277 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-020-02611-7

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article because the work reported overlaps with that published previously (Forootan Danesh et al. 2015; Forootan et al. 2018) in Persian. This article is therefore redundant. Mahtab Forootan Danesh, Mohammad Reza Dahmardeh Ghaleno and Ercan Kahya disagree with this retraction. Ehsan Alvandi and Sarita Gajbhiye Meshram have not responded to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.