Customisable decision support service for water management in river basins

Water quality management is inevitably complex, since it involves a number of technical, socio-economic, environmental and political factors with dynamic and interactive features. In planning water quality management, there are uncertainties in many system components and they may affect the overall behavior. It is thus desired that such complexities and uncertainties are effectively addressed, for providing decision support to practical water quality management. This article presents an approach to handle information for a decision support system for water management, aiming multiple objectives, treating heterogeneous factors and considering various affected entities, based on web-services.