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Activity related keywords
- identification
- screening
- quantification
- selection
- collection
- scenario analysis
- multi-criteria analysis
- cost-benefit analysis
- decision supporting
- technical feasibility testing
- physical modelling
- mathematical modelling
- coding
- benchmarking
- linking
- calibration
- validation
- sensitivity analysis
- responsiveness analysis
- variability analysis
- uncertainty analysis
- statistical analysis
- monitoring
- quality assurance
- database development
- GIS mapping
- designation
- assignment
- delineation
- subdivision
- aggregation
- classification
- differentiation
- variability reduction
- misclassification
- analogous ident
- significance ident
- priority ident
- critical path analysis
- inventorisation
- consultation
- information giving
- awareness raising
- decision making
- planning
- implementation
- announcement
- reporting
- publishment
- evaluation
- revision
- capacity building
- training
- guidance
- best practice demonstration
- participation
- self determination
- management of expectations
- appraising
- expert judgement
- criteria definition
- design
- development
- harmonization
- relevance analysis
- ability analysis
- goal setting
- problem description
- regulation
- consideration
- interpretation
- reframing
- persuasion
- demonstration

Context related keywords
- elements in the water cycle
  - atmosphere
    climate
    precipitation
  - water body types
    surface water
    river
    lakes and reservoirs
    wetlands
    groundwater
    aquifer
    transitional water
    coastal water
    urban drainage system
    floodplain
    artificial water body or heavily modified water body
  - soil
  - ecosystem
- water body characteristic
  - geographical feature
    altitude
    longitude and altitude
    geology
    water body area
    water body geometry
    boundary
    upper and lower boundary
  - hydromorphological features
  - socio-economic feature
  - social system
- water body status
  - water quantity status
    rainfall - runoff
    evapotranspiration
    flow regime (stream discharge, velocity,...)
    tidal regime
    groundwater flow
    groundwater level
    recharge
    flood area, depth, volume
    waves
    water scarcity
  - water quality status
    turbidity
    conductivity
    thermal conditions
    suspended particulate matter
    sediments
    organic pollution and oxygen
    nutrients
    total nitrogen and other nitrogen compounds
    total phosphorous ans other phosphorous compounds
    pesticides
    toxic and hazardous substances
    Heavy metals (arsenic, copper, chromium, zinc, cadmium, lead, mercury and nickel)
    Oil
    Organic hazardous substances (DDT, dioxins,â��)
    Microbiological toxins
    acidifying chemical
    salt
  - morphological status
    river continuity
    river profile
    river bank characteristics
    soil erosion, silting
    amount of wetlands
  - biological status
    algae
    phytoplankton
    benthic invertebrate fauna
    marcophytes (and phytobenthos)
    fish fauna
    habitat
  - ecological status
  - status potential
  - protected area
- reference conditions
  - reference sites
  - indicators
  - criteria
  - objectives
  - gap
  - ratio, EQR
  - paradigm
- stakeholder
  - public
  - water user
    drinking water supply
    industry (incl. power generation)
    agriculture and horticulture
    fisheries and aquaculture
    tourism and leisure
    transport and navigation
    natural land use and forestry
    environmental services
  - water manager, water management
    quantitative surface water management
    hydraulic flow control and regulation (e.g. weirs)
    flood control and protection
    water storage and outflow control (e.g. dams, reservoir management)
    channelisation/straightening
    channel maintenance (incl. dredging)
    transitional and coastal water management
    wastewater management
    groundwater level control
    water related land use planning
    Soil conservation management
    Nature conservation
    Restoration or cutting of floodplains
    Restoration or cutting of wetlands
  - participation procedure
- driving forces or pressures
  - pressure by human activity
  - diffuse pressures
    nutrient loss
    pesticide loss
    sediment loss
  - point pressures
    wastewater disposal
    sediment disposal
    hazardous substances and heavy metals disposal
  - exogenous pressures or future trends
    climate change
    land use trends
    population growth
    industrial development
    baseline scenario
- impact
  - pressure impact
  - socio-economic impact
  - enviromental hazards
- heavy modification or artificial change
  - hydromorphological change
  - physical alteration by human activity
- data
  - availability
  - accessibility
  - monitoring network
    surveillance monitoring network
    operational monitoring network
    investigative monitoring network
  - monitoring program
  - time step
  - knowledge
  - context knowledge
- spatial scale
  - river basin district
  - river basin
  - small elements
- tool
- GIS system
  - reference system
  - metadata
  - feature classes
  - scale
  - positional accuracy
- restoration measures
  - program of measures
  - river basin management plan
    timetable and workplan
    bottlenecks
  - flood risk management plan
- economic cost
  - water service cost
  - resource cost
  - environmental cost
  - disproportionate cost
  - financial implication
  - cost-recovery
- Learning cycle
  - water system percpetion
  - roles
  - mental model
  - Rules, Norms, Codes
  - (technical) infrastructure
- adaptive water management
- water management processes

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