• Water management categorisation and segmentation
• Water losses and unrecoverables at the flow and system levels
• Macro, meso and micro levels of water management
• Four types of policy in water management
In summary, this book highlights a theory that serves as a solid foundation for a
comprehensive, systemic and water-centric management approach. It integrates two
performance principles essential for sustainable water use systems, namely, equity
and efficiency. It decreases the policy space for decision making encountered by
water managers and facilitates advancing towards a reasonable and fair solution
because of the bounded rationality inherent in its development. In combining
the distributive and aggregative principles, the approach is at once transparent due
to an autonomous structure, stakeholder enabler through learning, and technology
promoter for gathering water data. These features are possible owing to the robust
and comprehensive terminology that advances a unifying language for all types of
water use systems, such as urban, agriculture and industry. Consequently, if a
reader finds a statement less true, I suggest focusing on the words because each
term has a concise meaning, requiring higher attention in reading the book.
Guimarães, Portugal
April 2020
Naim Haie
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• Water losses and unrecoverables at the flow and system levels
• Macro, meso and micro levels of water management
• Four types of policy in water management
In summary, this book highlights a theory that serves as a solid foundation for a
comprehensive, systemic and water-centric management approach. It integrates two
performance principles essential for sustainable water use systems, namely, equity
and efficiency. It decreases the policy space for decision making encountered by
water managers and facilitates advancing towards a reasonable and fair solution
because of the bounded rationality inherent in its development. In combining
the distributive and aggregative principles, the approach is at once transparent due
to an autonomous structure, stakeholder enabler through learning, and technology
promoter for gathering water data. These features are possible owing to the robust
and comprehensive terminology that advances a unifying language for all types of
water use systems, such as urban, agriculture and industry. Consequently, if a
reader finds a statement less true, I suggest focusing on the words because each
term has a concise meaning, requiring higher attention in reading the book.
Guimarães, Portugal
April 2020
Naim Haie
viii
Preface