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Water Management Interest Group

Hydropower plays an important role in the future supply of renewable energy. Climate change can have a profound impact on small and large scale hydroelectric power production. Therefore water managers must be informed of the potential impacts of climate change on their river systems.

What changes can we expect and what impact will these have on hydroelectric power production and the users of the water system? Would water supplies remain as experienced over the past years or will the hydrologic pattern shift or/and change? Will these changes create opportunities or vulnerabilities?

There is a need to foster increased relationships between water managers and the scientific community studying climate change in an attempt to “bridge the gap of uncertainty” and increase our knowledge of changes to regional water supplies.

The goal of this year’s workshop is to bridge the gap between scientists and practitioners studying climate change impacts on short, medium and long term water resource planning. We invite water managers, planners and researchers to come to Montreal, Quebec, October 8-9, 2008 to share their experiences in the challenging field of managing, adapting and projecting regional water supplies.

Topics and Issues:

• Watershed Management/ Water Use Planning
Water Use Management Strategies
Global Flow Management Strategies

• Operational Modeling and Optimization
  Benchmarking and Performance Measurement
  Modeling and Optimization Techniques
  Global Watershed Optimization
  Single Reservoir Optimization
  Multiple Criteria Optimization
  Expert Systems

• Meteorology - Climate
  Variability and Forecasting Evaluations
  Impacts on Watershed Hydrology
  Instrumentation and Communications
  Climate Change

• Hydrology
  Precipitation Forecasting
  Uncontrolled Inflow Forecasting
  Stochastic Hydrology
  Gap Filling and Data Extension
  Regression Techniques
  Statistical Techniques

• Data Acquisition & Techniques
Collection, Validation and Diffusion
GIS

• Hydraulics
  Dam Break and Flood Routing
  Erosion and Sedimentation Transport
  Ramping Rates
  Fish Habitat Issues
  Simulation of Flows and Water Levels
  Hydraulics of Dam Failures
  Physical and Mathematical Modeling

• Ice on Rivers and Reservoirs
Mathematical Modeling of Ice Conditions
Operating Strategies

• Impact Assessment
  Evaluation of the Impact of Flows and Water Levels
  Adaptation to Environmental Requirements
  Mitigation Techniques

Feature Publications:

Behavioural Systems to Guide or Divert Fish at Hydro-Electric Facilities

UPSTREAM FISH PASSAGE

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Mr. Robert Paul Metcalfe has over 30 years of experience in Water Management. During the last ten years he was a manager in the Water Management Services Department where he was accountable for water management studies and technical support, communications with the public, water level gauge operation, hydraulic turbine testing, streamflow metering, data quality control, administration of water leases and hydraulic engineering support for environmental studies. Over the years Robert has been active in many professional organizations. He is on the International St. Lawrence River Board of Control as the Canadian Co-Chair of the Control Board’s Communications Committee and a member of the Working Committee. In addition, Mr. Metcalfe is the Executive Director of the Harshman Fellowships Society and on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Water Resources Association (Ontario Branch).

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