**Meet the editor**

Dejan Komatina holds his PhD degree in Civil Engineering with a focus on environmental river engineering. He has over 28 years of national and international experience in the water- and environment-related fields in a wide range of roles—as a university teacher, a scientist, a professional engineer, and a manager of international organizations dealing with water and environmental is-

sues—International Sava River Basin Commission (ISRBC) and the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe. As the first-ever executive secretary of ISRBC for over 11 years, he coordinated the member countries' cooperation in the areas of water management, environment protection, climate change, sustainable waterway transport, and river tourism for the establishment of sustainable management and development of water resources in the major basin of Southeast Europe.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Water Quality and Quantity as Management Inputs 1**

Jean-Jacques Frenette and Ali A. Assani

Lazhar Belkhiri, Ammar Tiri and Lotfi Mouni

**Basin Hydrology 33**

Andrés Muñoz

**Scarce Region 49** Madaka Harold Tumbo

**Section 2 Flood and Drought Management 67**

**Flood Management 69**

Chapter 1 **Seasonal Variation of the Physico-chemical Composition of Ottawa River Waters in the St. Lawrence River 3**

Chapter 2 **Assessment of Heavy Metals Contamination in Groundwater: A Case Study of the South of Setif Area, East Algeria 17**

Chapter 3 **Hydro-Geochemical Water Inputs Identification in Glacierized**

Chapter 4 **Basin Scale Performance of a Distributed Rainfall-Runoff Model Using Uncertainty Modelling Approach in Data**

Chapter 5 **Historical, Hydrological and Hydraulics Studies for Sustainable**

Sapač, Andrej Vidmar and Simon Rusjan

Mitja Brilly, Andrej Kryžanowski, Mojca Šraj, Nejc Bezak, Klaudija

Sebastián Andrés Crespo, Francisco Javier Fernandoy and Ariel
