Improved water resources sustainability utilizing multi-time scale streamflow forecasts

0756269 Arumugam该项目有三个主要目标。 第一个是制定一种综合办法，通过结合应用基于气象信息的近期径流预测和基于气候的短期径流预测，促进供水系统的可持续管理。 对于第一个目标，将采取水管理措施，包括水资源保护和对冲，提高用水效率的水合同，河流和生态流量保护和替代水管理计划，包括废水回用。 第二个主要目标是应用和演示两个供水系统的方法，一个服务于北卡罗来纳州水需求快速增长的地区，另一个旨在最大限度地提高水力发电量和保护弗吉尼亚州的生态流量。第三个主要目标是开发一个教学工具，以评估积极的水管理措施和多时间尺度预报对促进可持续水管理的作用，并将其纳入几所大学的本科生/研究生课程。 一项教育推广工作将在北卡罗来纳州两所历史悠久的主要黑人学院的水和环境课程中灌输动态风险管理和可持续性概念。

0756269ArumugamThis project has three major objectives. The first is to develop an integrated approach to promote sustainable management of water supply systems through combined application of both weather information-based near-term streamflow forecasts and climate-based short-term streamflow forecasts. For this first objective, water management measures will be invoked that include water conservation and hedging, water contracts for improving water-use efficiency, in-stream and ecological flow protection and alternative water management plans including wastewater reuse. The second major objective is to apply and demonstrate the approach for two water supply systems, one serving an area experiencing rapid increase in water demand in North Carolina, and another aimed at maximizing hydropower production and preserving ecological flows in Virginia. The third major objective is to develop an instructional tool for assessing the role of proactive water management measures and multi-time scale forecasts to promote sustainable water management and to incorporate it in undergraduate/graduate curricula at several universities. An educational outreach effort will inculcate dynamic risk management and sustainability concepts in water and environmental curricula at two major historically black colleges in North Carolina.