Allocation of small reservoirs as a key of development in insular areas

Abstract

Water is known to be a critical resource for people, for life and business. For this reason, the exploitation is an important factor for progress and development and requires a set of actions in order to be able to manage this natural resource in a sustainable way. This paper describes a methodology for exploitation of water resources by creating small mountainous and upland reservoirs. The modeling performed using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the SWAT hydrologic model and by using Reservoir Simulation software. Andros Island was chosen as the case study area of this project and the process includes the hydrologic analysis and then assessing the runoff (through the water model SWAT for 100 years simulation) in a particular river catchment, the Afrouses catchment. In two different selected locations of the basin investigated the feasibility of building a dam, with the simultaneous creation of a water reservoir, based on the failure rates of abstraction fixed volume of water annually.