Monitoring and Evaluation

According to the Global Water Partnership, a strong monitoring and evaluation system has the potential to ensure that an IWRM strategy meets its main objective of fostering positive change, and also that the strategy can adapt to evolving needs and conditions. Resources available in this sub-theme include examples of performance indicators, technical methods of hydraulic monitoring, handbooks for appraisal of management systems, and other resources that support the wide variety of approaches for monitoring and evaluating water resources.

Monitoring and Evaluation Resources

G-WADI & Climate Impacts on Water Resources

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This resource leverages World Bank Climate Change Impacts on Water and consumptive water loss (ET) for other WB regions and extends satellite precipitation and other measurements for water availability and drought assessment.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Global

Remote Sensing of Global Croplands and Their Water Use for Food Security in the Twenty-First Century

Publication date:
June 6, 2012
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS currently has a global working group on "Remote Sensing of Global Croplands and Their Water Use for Food Security in the Twenty-first Century." Thenkabail, USGS, and PI are collaborating on first remote sensing global irrigated rainfed croplands areas. USGS is currently developing...Read more

Near Real Time Flood and Landslide Monitoring, Prediction & Mapping

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The resource provides real-time global estimation of floods and landslides through use of satellite rainfall and hydrological models and algorithms running routinely, and same day mapping of flooded areas through automated analysis of MODIS data. It has potential for improvement in products through...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Global

Invasive Mussel Detection and Monitoring Program for Reclamation Reservoirs

Publication date:
June 1, 2012
U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Reclamation
"Invasive Mussel Detection and Monitoring Program for Reclamation Reservoirs" is a fact sheet that describes an invasive quagga and zebra mussel detection and monitoring program. This fact sheet outlines the threat, the goal and the program. Specific water testing details are also...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States

Clemente Lab

Publication date:
January 1, 2013
Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska
DWFI faculty fellow Tom Clemente's laboratory site with research and publications linksRead more

California's Water Footprint

Pacific Institute
This report analyzes the state's water footprint, that is the amount of water required to produce the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the beverages we drink, and the other goods on which we rely. Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States

Water Prism Volume 1

Publication date:
January 1, 2012
Electric Power Research Institute
The report includes a high level summary of the conceptual design of Water Prism, and walks the reader through the major steps of a Water Prism analysis. The report explains in detail the calculations for free flowing rivers, impoundments and rivers below impoundments, and groundwater. The report...Read more

Water Prism, Volume 2: Prototype Applications

Publication date:
January 1, 2013
Electric Power Research Institute
Water Prism is a decision support system (DSS) that evaluates alternative management plans to obtain water resource sustainability at the regional, watershed, or local levels. It considers surface, ground, and impoundment waters and all water-using sectors (industrial, agricultural, municipal,...Read more

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