Key issues for determining the exploitable water resources in a Mediterranean river basin

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 503-504, Issue , 2015, Pages 319-328

  Pedro Monzonís, María ^a   Ferrer, Javier ^b   Solera, Abel ^a   Estrela, Teodoro ^b   Paredes Arquiola, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b Jucar River Basin Authority of Spanish Ministry of Agriculture   (Spain)

Author keywords

Exploitable water resource; Jucar River Basin; Water accounts; Water availability; Water resource systems

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; RESOURCE VALUATION; RIVERS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATERSHEDS;

HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MEDITERRANEAN RIVERS; RELIABILITY CRITERION; RIVER BASINS; UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES; WASTEWATER REUSE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE SYSTEMS;

WATER CONSERVATION;

POLICY MAKING; RIVER BASIN; STAKEHOLDER; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; DESALINATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPLOITABLE WATER RESOURCE; HYDROLOGY; RELIABILITY; RIVER BASIN; SATISFACTION; SIMULATION; SPAIN; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIVER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

JUCAR BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIVERS; SPAIN; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84909636832     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.042     Document Type: Article

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