Abstract
Drought occurs more frequently in non-urban area where artificial water supply systems are not well equipped than in urban area where artificial water supply systems are well equipped, and occurs the first in such non-urban communities. In this study a drought index which can be applied to determine actual drought conditions on a daily basis at a region where artificial water supply systems are not well equipped is proposed. The proposed drought index is calculated on a basic local government basis using the standard precipitation index, the real-time available amount of water supply and water demand. It is applied at 164 basic local government regions during the period from 1980 to 2012. As a result, it is shown that the index can reproduce well major historical drought events. Hence, the drought index proposed in this study is expected to be well applied for determining real-time drought conditions in communities where artificial water supply systems are not well equipped.
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