FRIEND 2002-Regional Hydrology: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice

The fourth FRIEND conference (Cape Town, South Africa, 2002) demonstrated how advances in hydrology can be used for the development of integrated river basin management. Examples illustrate the incorporation of research results into operational hydrology and water resources planning. (1) Hydrological Data - policy, international rivers, databases, real time, dissemination; (2) Managing Hydrological Risk - floods, surface/groundwater droughts; (3) Water Scarcity - overexploitation and poverty reduction; (4) Sustaining Water-related Ecosystems - definitions, methodology; and (5) Continental Hydrology - regimes, water sharing, teleconnections, snow, ice, international basins.

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• Ground water
• Surface water
• Snow and ice hydrology
• Drought and desertification
• Runoff modelling
• Watershed
• Remote sensing
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• Water resources and management
• Ecohydrology/hydro-ecology
• Erosion and sediment
• Tracer hydrology