constraints and change in reservoir management Opportunities

Changing hydrologic, economic, social and environmental conditions have focused attention on the opportunities for changing reservoir management. Such change can occur in three areas. First, there are opportunities to change the way the reservoir stores and controls water. Second, there are opportunities to change the purposes served. And third, the value of the water and the criteria by which reservoir benefits and costs are computed may have changed. Associated with each change are a variety of factors that should be considered. Drawing upon experience with reservoir management of the Missouri and Columbia River systems and reservoirs in California, Texas and other regions, we offer these reflections on the task of changing reservoir management.

Opportunities, constraints and change in reservoir management Conference Paper