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Reviving the Dying Giant

Integrated Water Resource Management in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment, Iran

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Editors:
  1. Shahrooz Mohajeri

    1. inter 3 GmbH Institute for Resource Management, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Lena Horlemann

    1. inter 3 GmbH Institute for Resource Management, Berlin, Germany

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  • First book with an interdisciplinary perspective on Iran’s water sector

  • Relevant for scientists and practitioners working on water management in arid countries

  • Shows how technological and non-technological methods can be integrated in a meaningful way

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Lena Horlemann, Shahrooz Mohajeri
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Zayandeh Rud Catchment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Water Resources in Iran and the Reasons for Establishing River Basin Organizations: Review of the First Experience for Zayandeh Rud

      • Mohammad Ebrahimnia, Bahieh Jafari Bibalan
      Pages 11-31

    3. Water Management in the Zayandeh Rud Basin: Past, Present and Future

      • Mohammad Ali Torfe, Masoud Mirmohammad Sadeghi, Shahrooz Mohajeri
      Pages 33-47

  4. Developing a Common Understanding of IWRM and Its Requirements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Participation in Water Management in Iran

      • Lena Horlemann, Parisa Jafari Berenji
      Pages 51-62

    3. Towards a Sustainable Advanced Training Sector in Iran: Analysis of Main Obstacles in the Field of Capacity Development

      • Lena Horlemann
      Pages 63-77

  5. Current and Future Water Availability and Use

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Current and Future Agricultural Water Use in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment

      • Wolf Raber
      Pages 81-94

    3. Current and Future Industrial Water Use in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment

      • Wolf Raber, Shahrooz Mohajeri
      Pages 95-115

    4. Water Use for Drinking Water and Reuse of Treated Wastewater

      • Jörn Heppeler
      Pages 117-133

    5. Development of a Water Quality Monitoring System for the Zayandeh Rud River

      • Thomas Erhard Balling, Homeira Safigholy
      Pages 135-156

    6. Obstacles and Opportunities for Iran’s Wastewater Sector Development

      • Shahrooz Mohajeri, Axel Dierich
      Pages 157-174

    7. Vulnerability Analysis of Farmers in the Roodasht Region, Iran

      • Wolf Raber, Parisa Jafari Berenji, Mohammad Naser Reyhani, Shahrooz Mohajeri, Lena Horlemann
      Pages 175-193

  6. Development of Necessary Tools for IWRM and Results

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Introduction: The Water Management Tool WMT

      • Michael Kaltofen
      Pages 197-199

    3. Climate Change Impacts on Some Hydrological Variables in the Zayandeh-Rud River Basin, Iran

      • Saeid Eslamian, Hamid R. Safavi, Alireza Gohari, Mahdi Sajjadi, Vahid Raghibi, Mohammad Javad Zareian
      Pages 201-217

    4. Application of the Hydrological Model SWAT in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment

      • Monireh Faramarzi, Ali Asghar Besalatpour, Michael Kaltofen
      Pages 219-240

    5. Application of the FEFLOW Groundwater Model in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment

      • Sebastian Sklorz, Michael Kaltofen, Bertram Monninkhoff
      Pages 241-251
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About this book

This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research project that was set up to introduce Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at the Zayandeh Rud, Central Iran’s most important river. As a result of climate change and a missing overall concept for sustainably managing water resources, the river has repeatedly dried up in recent years. Not only has water stress led to severe conflicts among the water using sectors and neighboring provinces, it also threatens important ecosystems in the region. Thus, the joint development of an IWRM concept for the Zayandeh Rud catchment was the main objective of the project. Comprehensive technological and non-technological measures – ranging from wastewater reuse to capacity development – were adjusted to local conditions and implemented in order to initiate an integrated, iterative IWRM process. The design of a technology-based Water Management Tool (WMT) served as the connective link to create trust, cooperation and coordination among the stakeholders and institutions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • inter 3 GmbH Institute for Resource Management, Berlin, Germany

    Shahrooz Mohajeri, Lena Horlemann

About the editors

Dr. Shahrooz Mohajeri is the managing director of the inter 3 Institute for Resource Management in Berlin and the IWRM Zayandeh Rud project leader. Born in Isfahan and educated in Iran and Germany, he is an internationally recognized expert for sustainable resource management with a focus on technological, economic and political feasibility. Dr. Mohajeri has been promoting scientific and business cooperation between Iran and Germany for more than 15 years. He is also a member of the German Water Partnership board and the leader of GWP’s Iran section.

Lena Horlemann is a researcher at the inter 3 Institute for resource management and one of the IWRM Zayandeh Rud project coordinators. She holds a master’s degree in Southeast Asian Studies and Agronomy and her professional background also includes global governance and development cooperation. She has worked on environmental and water management issues for more than 10 years, for example in IWRM projects in Mongolia and now Iran. Her research focuses on social and institutional aspects of IWRM implementation.

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