Water Resources Update

Universities Council on Water Resources

Issue No. 103: Spring, 1996

Risk Analysis for Water Resources

Table of Contents

Foreword                             1

Risk Game by Paul Slovic                                                                    2

The Role of Risk Analysis in Water Resources Engineering by Larry W. Mays                                 8

Uncertainty and Reliability Analysis in Water Resources Engineering by Yeou-Koung Tung         13

Uncertainty in Water Distribution Network Modeling by Kevin Lansey                 22

The Use of Risk Analysis by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by David A. Moser                    27

The Risk Management Dilemma of Climate change by Keith Harrington                         35

Challenges to Using Ecological Risk Assessment to Implement Ecosystem Management

by Robert T. Lackey        46