BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ISTANBUL   Gurdal Kanat1, Mehmet Emin Birpinar1, Ahmet Demir2 1Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY   2Yildiz Technical University, Environmental Engineering Department, 34349 Besiktas, Istanbul, TURKEY kanat@yildiz.edu.tr In recent years, mainly due to densely urbanization and migration to the cities, the cost of […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   A PARTITIONING METHODOLOGY FOR IDENTIFICATION OF HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS IN REGIONAL FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS   Bhagabat Prasad Parida University of Botswana, Private Bag UB 00704, Gaborone, BOTSWANA paridab@mopipi.ub.bw Flood has been one of the world’s greatest disasters with the highest public profile. Even in spite of extensive […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   WATERSHED REGULATION AND MANAGEMENT OF METROPOLITAN CITY OF ISTANBUL   Ahmet Demir, Mehmet Emin Birpinar, Gürdal Kanat Yýldýz Technical University, Istanbul, TURKEY kanat@yildiz.edu.tr Istanbul is one of the world’s most important cities in terms of history, culture, trade and tourism. Annual population increase is approximately 400.000. […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   A NEW APPROACH TO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR WATER RESOURCES DECISION SUPPORT   Slobodan P. Simonovic The University of Western Ontario Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering London, Ontario, CANADA N6A 5B9 simonovic@uwo.ca Information for water resources management exists in many forms and is not always widely […]

  BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   EMPOWERMENT OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS IN COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION: LAKE PEIPSI (ESTONIA-RUSSIA) CASE STUDY   Margit Säre Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation Aleksandri 9, 51004 Tartu, ESTONIA margit@ctc.ee Last decade has been for decision makers an intensive period for exploring new directions […]