Resilience Quantification and Risk Management of Water Resources Systems

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Water resources are crucial to the sustainable development of our societies. Recently, water related hazards have been imposing unprecedented demands on our infrastructure, jeopardizing public safety, and hampering economic growth. The catastrophic floods in Alberta in 2013 forced the evacuation of over 100,000 people, and the damage losses and recovery costs are projected to exceed CAD $6 billion. California has been facing severe drought since 2012, and, in 2015, it incurred an economic impact of USD $2.7 billion and 21,000 job losses. The prediction and management of water related hazards are facing various challenges arising from numerous sources of uncertainties and interconnected complexities, such as random precipitation events, stochastic flow processes, imprecise estimates of system parameters, and fuzzy information in decision making processes. These uncertainties can lead to difficulties in quantifying resilience and thus, identifying reliable risk management strategies.