Introducing reservoir sustainability indexing to investigate reservoir operations and piloting it at the basin of Lake Urmia with sparse data
Reservoir sustainability indexing/estimation is introduced in this paper, capable of handling sparse data.It innovates by interconnecting a set of three variables: estimating Environmental Water Requirements (EWRs) by conceptual rules; estimating Reliability, Resilience poise pads in bulk and Vulnerability (RRV) criteria by using EWRs; and thereby