TY - JFULL AU - Afshin Jahangirzadeh and Shatirah Akib and Babak Kamali and Sadia Rahman PY - 2012/1/ TI - Optimal Water Allocation: Sustainable Management of Dam Reservoir T2 - International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering SP - 748 EP - 751 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8992 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 72, 2012 N2 - Scarcity of water resources and huge costs of establishing new hydraulic installations necessitate optimal exploitation from existing reservoirs. Sustainable management and efficient exploitation from existing finite water resources are important factors in water resource management, particularly in the periods of water insufficiency and in dry regions, and on account of competitive allocations in the view of exploitation management. This study aims to minimize reservoir water release from a determined rate of demand. A numerical model for water optimal exploitation has been developed using GAMS introduced by the World Bank and applied to the case of Meijaran dam, northern Iran. The results indicate that this model can optimize the function of reservoir exploitation while required water for lower parts of the region will be supplied. Further, allocating optimal water from reservoir, the optimal rate of water allocated to any group of the users were specified to increase benefits in curve dam exploitation. ER -