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Thu, 05/26/2011 - 08:52
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Decision support tools introduced for water resources management
VIENTIANE,MAY.(KPL) - A seminar was held yesterday in Vientiane Capital to present and discuss “decision support tools for water resources and river basin management”.
Such tools-Decision Support Systems (DSS)-are a combination of computer models and other techniques which help policy and decision makers understand the problems of water resources in a river basin, as a basis for making better decisions on how to use, allocate and protect water resources.
The meeting was hosted by Mr. Jesper Kjelds of the Danish-based global water & environment institute DHI, in cooperation with Mr. Christophe Muziol of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, and Dr. Andrew Noble of the International Water Management Institute, IWMI, and moderated by DHI Water Policy Adviser Prof. Torkil Jønch Clausen.
Over 40 participants from different ministries and provinces across the country, representatives from the newly formed river basin committees of the Nam Ngum and Nam Theun-Kading, as well as from the Mekong River Commission, discussed with presenters from DHI, IUCN and IWMI on how to develop and use such decisions support system tools in Lao PDR.
The experts showed examples from Asia, including the Mekong region and delta, and from Africa, Latin America and Australia, on how such tools can help improve the management of floods and droughts, which are expected to become more serious in the future as a result of climate change.
They also showed how to use such instruments for better water quality management and environment protection, as well as how to operate dams and reservoirs better and more efficiently for hydropower production, irrigation and flood control.
In a final Panel discussion the Seminar concluded that the future development and management of the water resources of the country should be based on scientific evidence that is made available and easily accessible to decision makers through modern computer based techniques, such as models and decision support systems. In particular the Director-General of the newly formed river basin committee in the Nam Ngum River basin, Mr. Chanthanet Boualapha, and colleagues from the Nam Theun-Kading river basin, participated actively and showed great interest in pursuing the development of such tools for better coordinated management of the dams and reservoirs in these river basins.
Such tools-Decision Support Systems (DSS)-are a combination of computer models and other techniques which help policy and decision makers understand the problems of water resources in a river basin, as a basis for making better decisions on how to use, allocate and protect water resources.
The meeting was hosted by Mr. Jesper Kjelds of the Danish-based global water & environment institute DHI, in cooperation with Mr. Christophe Muziol of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, and Dr. Andrew Noble of the International Water Management Institute, IWMI, and moderated by DHI Water Policy Adviser Prof. Torkil Jønch Clausen.
Over 40 participants from different ministries and provinces across the country, representatives from the newly formed river basin committees of the Nam Ngum and Nam Theun-Kading, as well as from the Mekong River Commission, discussed with presenters from DHI, IUCN and IWMI on how to develop and use such decisions support system tools in Lao PDR.
The experts showed examples from Asia, including the Mekong region and delta, and from Africa, Latin America and Australia, on how such tools can help improve the management of floods and droughts, which are expected to become more serious in the future as a result of climate change.
They also showed how to use such instruments for better water quality management and environment protection, as well as how to operate dams and reservoirs better and more efficiently for hydropower production, irrigation and flood control.
In a final Panel discussion the Seminar concluded that the future development and management of the water resources of the country should be based on scientific evidence that is made available and easily accessible to decision makers through modern computer based techniques, such as models and decision support systems. In particular the Director-General of the newly formed river basin committee in the Nam Ngum River basin, Mr. Chanthanet Boualapha, and colleagues from the Nam Theun-Kading river basin, participated actively and showed great interest in pursuing the development of such tools for better coordinated management of the dams and reservoirs in these river basins.
