Author(s): Angelos Findikakis
Linked Author(s): Angelos N. Findikakis
Keywords: Hydrolink; droughts; drought risk management; Spain; river basin; Victor Arqued; ecological flow requirements; water reserves; water bodies; public consultation; Morocco; Dalila Loudyi; Zaynab Bouhioui; water supply augmentation; dam construction policy; national water plan; drinking water; irrigation; non-conventional water sources; demand management; water valuation; new technologies; drought forecasting; risk management; China; Yanping Qu; Xuejun Zhang; Xingwang Wang; dynamic drought monitoring; drought assessment; meteorological data; hydrological data; soil moisture; remote sensing data; land use; crops distribution; irrigation areas; weekly drought monitoring maps; drought mitigation; decision making; ecosystem management; agriculture; Angelos Findikakis; Four Major Rivers Restoration Project; FMRRP; Hyoseop Woo; Pierre Y. Julien; Byungman Yoon; Sung-Uk Choi
Abstract:
The present issue of Hydrolink includes articles from three countries with a long history of facing droughts and learning over the years how to manage them. Drought is defined broadly as the condition of “a moisture deficit relative to the average water availability at a given location and season”. Droughts are often categorized as meteorological (prolonged periods of below average precipitation), hydrological (prolonged periods of lower than average streamflows of groundwater availability) and agricultural and ecological droughts (periods of soil moisture deficit during the growing season affecting negatively crop production or ecosystem functions). These three types of droughts are closely related as meteorological droughts causes hydrological droughts, and they both, in combination with high evapotranspiration, contribute to agricultural and ecological droughts.
Year: 2024