Sustainable surface water storage development: measuring economic benefits and ecological and social impacts of reservoir system configurations

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dc.creatorEriyagama, Nishadi
dc.creatorSmakhtin, V.
dc.creatorUdamulla, L.
dc.date2022-01-20
dc.date2022-01-31T20:42:30Z
dc.date2022-01-31T20:42:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:24:49Z
dc.descriptionThis paper illustrates an approach to measuring economic benefits and ecological and social impacts of various configurations of reservoir systems for basin-wide planning. It suggests indicators and examines their behavior under several reservoir arrangement scenarios using two river basins in Sri Lanka as examples. A river regulation index is modified to take into account the volume of flow captured by reservoirs and their placement and type. Indices of connectivity illustrate that the lowest river connectivity in a basin results from a single new reservoir placed on the main stem of a previously unregulated river between the two locations that command 50% and 75% of the basin area. The ratio of the total affected population to the total number of beneficiaries is shown to increase as the cumulative reservoir capacity in a river basin increases. An integrated index comparing the performance of different reservoir system configurations shows that while results differ from basin to basin, the cumulative effects of a large number of small reservoirs may be comparable to those with a few large reservoirs, especially at higher storage capacities.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/117854
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/155049
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceEriyagama, Nishadi; Smakhtin, V.; Udamulla, L. 2022. Sustainable surface water storage development: measuring economic benefits and ecological and social impacts of reservoir system configurations. Water, 14(3):307. (Special issue: Relationship of Energy and Water Resource Availability) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/w14030307]
dc.subjectsurface water
dc.subjectwater storage
dc.subjecteconomic benefits
dc.subjectecological factors
dc.subjectsocial impact
dc.subjectwater reservoirs
dc.subjectriver basins
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectequity
dc.subjectbiochemistry
dc.titleSustainable surface water storage development: measuring economic benefits and ecological and social impacts of reservoir system configurations
dc.typeJournal Article

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