A web-based water resources management information system for participatory problem solving.

摘要: Within the EU funded INCO-MPC international research project OPTIMA (http://www. ess. co. at/OPTIMA) a set of dynamic simulation models have been integrated with data bases, GIS, a rule-based expert system, and optimisation tools for the description of water resources management problems at the river basin scale. The fully web-based water resources management information system is being applied to several river basins ranging from 240 to 18,000 km2 in size around the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean: case studies include the Dhiarizos in Cyprus, the Gediz in Turkey, the Zarqa in Jordan, the Lower Litani in Lebanon, the Wadi Zeimar/Alexander river in Palestine and Israel, the Melian in Tunisia and the Martil in Morocco. All these river systems are characterised by varying levels of water scarcity, allocation conflicts, and pollution problems.The system integrates a cascade of models, embedded in a …