Reviving the Dying Giant: Integrated Water Resource Management in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment, Iran

Introduction.- Part I: The Zayandeh Rud Catchment.- Water Resources in Iran and the Reasons for Establishing River Basin Organizations.- Water Management in the Zayandeh Rud Basin.- Part II: Developing a Common Understanding of IWRM and its Requirements.- Participation in Water Management in Iran.- Towards a Sustainable Advanced Training Sector in Iran.- Part III: Current and Future Water Availability and Use.- Current and Future Agricultural Water Use in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment.- Current and Future Industrial Water Use in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment.- Water Use for Drinking Water and Reuse of Treated Wastewater.- Development of a Water Quality Monitoring Sys-tem for the Zayandeh Rud River.- Obstacles and Opportunities for Iran's Wastewater Sector Development.- Vulnerability Analysis of Farmers in the Roodasht Region, Iran.- Part IV: Development of Necessary Tools for IWRM and Results.- Introduction: The Water Management Tool WMT.- Climate Change Impacts on Some Hydrological Variables in the Zayandeh-Rud River Basin, Iran.- Application of the Hydrological Model SWAT in the Zayandeh Rud catchment.- Application of the FEFLOW Groundwater Model in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment.- Application of MIKE Basin in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment.