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  • The effect of intesification on hydrological evaluation of the environmental impacts and mitigation measures in hydropower production sector
    Humar, Nina, gradbeništvo, 1975- ; Kryžanowski, Andrej
    Climate change affects not only the individual and the social environment, but also nature and its biodiversity. In recent decades, we face more and more often the phenomenon of hydrological ... extremes. Slovenia is being affected by hydrological events of exceptional proportions (droughts, floods, sleet, storms) almost every year. The exchange of drought and flood events has become almost constant, and the intensity of extremes is increasing. The damage caused by extreme events increases in proportion to the intensification of hydrological extremes. It is necessary to take action and reverse the trend of increasing damage Although the concentration of precipitation in the form of extreme events on the annual amount of precipitation does not seem to be such a steep increase at first glance, further analysis already shows drastic differences. Climate change, which is reflected in increasing deviations, does not predict a bright scenario for Slovenia and most of Europe, so when planning the use of water resources, it will be necessary to strive for their rational and sustainable development to serve both people and nature. Given the uneven distribution of rainfall over the year, the mere protection of water resources, without proper management and investment in water conservation and regulation of watercourses, will no longer be possible. Construction of reservoirs and dams that will help regulate water quantities and redistribute them over the year, so that in the future we can provide not only drinking water, process water, irrigation water and groundwater enrichment, but also conditions for biodiversity conservation, is an inevitable fact. In the paper we will try to illustrate how crucial the reservoirs are for the future.
    Source: Proceedings (Str. 21-30)
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2020
    Language - slovenian
    COBISS.SI-ID - 51404035