- Title
- Implementing uncertainty analysis in water resources assessment and planning
- Creator
- Hughes, Denis A, Mohobane, T, Mallory, S
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438281
- Identifier
- vital:73448
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-4312-0629-2
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/2056-1-14.pdf
- Description
- The main objective of the project was to contribute to the incorporation of uncer-tainty assessments in practical water resource decision-making in South Africa. There are three main components to this objective. The first is the quantification of realistic levels of uncertainty that are as low as possible given the available infor-mation (reducing uncertainty). The second is the availability of tools to implement uncertainty analysis across the broad spectrum of data analysis and modelling plat-forms that form part of practical water resources assessment (including hydrologi-cal and water resources yield models). The third relates to the issue of using uncer-tain information in the process of making decisions about the design, development or operation of water resources systems. The latter includes social, political and economic uncertainties as well as the hydrological uncertainties that are directly addressed in this report. None of these are independent and all are associated with the fundamental issue that all of the role players should understand the key con-cepts of uncertainty and that virtually all of the information we use to make deci-sions is uncertain. One of the major challenges in this project as well as the previous WRC-supported project on uncertainty methods, was the lack of understanding of some of the key issues, or a lack of appreciation of the importance of uncertainty in all water resources decision-making.
- Format
- 119 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Hughes, D., Mohobane, T. and Mallory, S., 2015. Implementing uncertainty analysis in water resources assessment and planning (No. 2056/1, p. 14). WRC Report
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