Carrying capacity and sustainability appraisals on regional water supply systems under climate change.

Abstract

This study aims to appraise the carrying capacity and sustainability of four water supply systems which are inthe same watershed under climate change. An integrated assessment tool, TaiWAP, which integrates the common procedures of impact assessment of climate change, i.e., downscaling, weather generation, hydrological model, and interface for linking system dyna mics model, is used to evaluate the sustainability of regional water resources systems. The GWLF physical model is used to simulate surface water processes and Vensim (a specialized software tool) is used in a