Sustainable Surface Water Storage Development Pathways and Acceptable Limits for River Basins

Eriyagama, Nishadi, Smakhtin, Vladimir and Udamulla, Lakshika, (2021). Sustainable Surface Water Storage Development Pathways and Acceptable Limits for River Basins. Water, 13(5), 645-645

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    Author Eriyagama, Nishadi
    Smakhtin, Vladimir
    Udamulla, Lakshika
    Title Sustainable Surface Water Storage Development Pathways and Acceptable Limits for River Basins
    Appearing in Water
    Volume 13
    Issue No. 5
    Publication Date 2021-02-28
    Place of Publication Basel
    Publisher MDPI
    Start page 645
    End page 645
    Language eng
    Abstract This paper addresses the questions of acceptable upper limits for storage development and how best to deploy storage capacity in the long-term planning of built surface water storage in river basins. Storage-yield curves are used to establish sustainable storage development pathways and limits for a basin under a range of environmental flow release scenarios. Optimal storage distribution at a sub-basin level, which complies with an identified storage development pathway, can also be estimated. Two new indices are introduced—Water Supply Sustainability and Environmental Flow Sustainability—to help decide which pathways and management strategies are the most appropriate for a basin. Average pathways and conservative and maximum storage limits are illustrated for two example basins. Conservative and maximum withdrawal limits from storage are in the range of 45–50% and 60–65% of the mean annual runoff. The approach can compare the current level of basin storage with an identified pathway and indicate which parts of a basin are over- or under-exploited. A global storage–yield–reliability relationship may also be developed using statistics of annual basin precipitation to facilitate water resource planning in ungauged basins.
    Copyright Holder MDPI
    Copyright Year 2021
    Copyright type Creative commons
    DOI 10.3390/w1305
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