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Optimum design of small reservoirs (tanks)
Author(s) -
Helweg Otto J.,
Sharma Prem N.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr019i004p00881
Subject(s) - capital investment , construct (python library) , investment (military) , optimal design , irrigation , civil engineering , water resource management , environmental science , engineering , computer science , business , ecology , finance , machine learning , politics , political science , law , biology , programming language
Small reservoirs, called tanks, are a part of traditional water harvesting methods in the semiarid tropics of India and many other countries. Though considerable investment is being planned to construct more of them, no investigation has taken place to discover the most efficient design of these tanks. This paper proposes a nonlinear optimization model to design these tanks. It is, in a sense, ‘appropriate technology’ because a traditional approach is combined with newer techniques to improve irrigation systems without capital intensive or high technology construction methods.