Review of Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources by Joaquin Andreu, Giuseppe Rossi, Federico Vagliasindi, and Alida VelaDrought Management and Planning for Water ResourcesCRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group1-56670-672-6$90

Abstract

The book Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources—edited by Joaquin Andreu, Giuseppe Rossi, Federico Vagliasindi and Alida Vela—summarizes the results of the project “Water Resources Management Under Drought Conditions: Criteria and Tools for Conjunctive Use of Conventional and Marginal Water in Mediterranean Regions” WAMME project . The objective of the book is to present to potential users and the scientific community the results of a number of case studies in representative watersheds of the Mediterranean area. The book consists of nine chapters written by 20 different authors. Chapter 1 discusses the droughts of 1990–1995 and 1998– 2002 in the Jucar Basin in southeastern Spain. Approximately 80% of the water demand in the basin is for irrigation. Chapters 2 to 4 deal with strategies for water management under drought conditions. The second chapter describes guidelines for the reuse of marginal water for agriculture, urban, and industrial use. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with conjunctive use of surface and groundwater and conjunctive use of conventional and marginal waters. Chapter 3 discusses methods for conjunctive water use and compares the different methods. The first part of Chapter 4 discusses the development of an optimization model for