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The River Segura basin, in southeastern Spain, is a semiarid Mediterranean region with a highly developed agriculture. The demand of water far exceeds the renewable surface and ground water resources. Mining of aquifers has been a practice for many years and still continues. There is also an external source of water: the Tagus-Segura interbasin transfer. Proper management is crucial in order to avoid or minimize shortages and conflicts. Systems analysis techniques are being used and a hierarchy of models has been developed to be used as tools for the planning and management of the basin. These include models for operational hydrology, as well as optimization and simulation models. This paper introduces the OPTIRED optimization model and the SGC simulation model. The models have been designed as general models so they can be used for other water resources systems.
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Andreu, J., Capilla, J. (1993). Optimization and Simulation Models Applied to the Segura Water Resources System in Spain. In: Marco, J.B., Harboe, R., Salas, J.D. (eds) Stochastic Hydrology and its Use in Water Resources Systems Simulation and Optimization. NATO ASI Series, vol 237. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1697-8_26
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