Reviving the Dying Giant

1. Introduction
Lena Horlemann, Shahrooz Mohajeri

Part I. The Zayandeh Rud Catchment

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

3. Water Management in the Zayandeh Rud Basin: Past, Present and Future
Mohammad Ali Torfe, Masoud Mirmohammad Sadeghi, Shahrooz Mohajeri

Part II. Developing a Common Understanding of IWRM and Its Requirements

4. Participation in Water Management in Iran
Lena Horlemann, Parisa Jafari Berenji

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

Part III. Current and Future Water Availability and Use

6. Current and Future Agricultural Water Use in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment
Wolf Raber

7. Current and Future Industrial Water Use in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment
Wolf Raber, Shahrooz Mohajeri

8. Water Use for Drinking Water and Reuse of Treated Wastewater
Jörn Heppeler

9. Development of a Water Quality Monitoring System for the Zayandeh Rud River
Thomas Erhard Balling, Homeira Safigholy

10. Obstacles and Opportunities for Iran’s Wastewater Sector Development
Shahrooz Mohajeri, Axel Dierich

11. Vulnerability Analysis of Farmers in the Roodasht Region, Iran
Wolf Raber, Parisa Jafari Berenji, Mohammad Naser Reyhani, Shahrooz Mohajeri, Lena Horlemann

Part IV. Development of Necessary Tools for IWRM and Results

12. Introduction: The Water Management Tool WMT
Michael Kaltofen

13. 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

14. Application of the Hydrological Model SWAT in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment
Monireh Faramarzi, Ali Asghar Besalatpour, Michael Kaltofen

15. Application of the FEFLOW Groundwater Model in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment
Sebastian Sklorz, Michael Kaltofen, Bertram Monninkhoff

16. Application of MIKE Basin in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment
Michael Kaltofen, Fabian Müller, Anna Zabel

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