Smart Water Management and Sustainable Water Supply Technology under Climate Change Conditions in Korea |
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학술지명 Climate Change Modeling in Central Asia Workshop
저자 강신욱,박진혁,장수형
발표일 2019-05-16
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K-water is a water-specialized public company since its founding in 1967, and has realized the ICT-based smart water management by way of Korean-type integrated water resources, which has taken account of changes in water management conditions such as climate change, to increase and diversify the value of water, enriching nature and humankind. Especially, multi-purpose dams in Korea were built many places for protection from water related disasters such as floods and droughts since the early 1970s. Currently, those dams cover 72% of nation’s water storage, 36% of water supply and 95% of flood control capacity. Recently, many multi-purpose dams have not satisfied the water demand due to the lack of precipitation amounts. Furthermore, the spatial and temporal precipitation patterns are significantly diverse over the regions and seasons, and there is no guarantee that the current reservoir operation rules work to ensure the water demand for the future climate change conditions which would accelerate the spatio-temporal variation of precipitation. To this end, K-water has developed and applied an intelligent water management technologies covering all aspects from water supply infrastructures to the production and distribution of water resources, digital data to manage water scientifically, ICT system to process information in real-time and high-tech skills and equipment to use big data skillfully. Also, the optimal reservoir operation rules for multi-purpose dam were revised to preserve water demand toward the future. In this presentation, it is briefly introduced the business fields categorized based on the concept of Water Circle, Water Value and Water Platform of K-water. Water Circle out of business fields is ICT-based smart water management technologies by engaging in entire water circulation processes, and will also briefly introduce the concept and methodology of reservoir operation rules for sustainable water supply on multi-purpose dams considering climate change conditions as a non-structural measure for drought risk management. |