Author(s)

J.R. Hansford

Abstract

Ever-increasing demands for water, coupled with more stringent environmental constraints, make the tasks of designers of water development schemes more and more difficult, especially in areas where resources are scarce. With increasing multiplicity of reservoirs in a water supply system, operational decisions as to how much water can be drawn from which source become more and more complex. Stochastic analysis of reservoir operation using short term inflow sequences provides the information the operators need to make risk-based decisions as to how much water can be released, and from which reservoir, so as to ensure that the supply system will not fail. Elaborate models, such as the Acres Reservoir Simulation Program (ARSP), can be used to simulate the performance of highly complex water resource systems comprising of reservoirs in series and/or in parallel and with demands randomly distributed thr

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