Sustainable Water Allocation in Umarkhed Taluka through Optimization of Reservoir Operation in the Wardha Sub-Basin, India

Climate change is causing shifts in seasonal weather patterns and variation in seasonal time scales in India. Factors including uneven distribution of water, faulty agricultural practices and water policies, low prices of farm products, and debt are leading farmers to commit suicide in Umarkhed Taluka of the Yavatmal District. This study aimed to develop a sustainable solution to water scarcity in the surrounding watershed by introducing optimization modeling in reservoir operation. Past studies have conducted different hydrologic analyses to address the water scarcity issue in this region. However, none of the studies incorporated optimization in their models. This study developed an integrated hydrologic and optimization model that can predict the daily reservoir releases for climate change scenarios from 2020 to 2069 based upon Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP-4.5 and RCP-8.5) climate change scenarios from 2020 to 2069. The integrated simulations were able to deliver around 19% more water than the historical discharge at the most downstream station of the Wardha Watershed. The simulated approaches store less water than the actual unoptimized scenario and deliver water when there is a need at the downstream locations. Finally, because the downstream locations of the Wardha Watershed receive more water, a localized storage system can be developed and a transfer method can be utilized to deliver sufficient water to the Umarkhed Taluka. View Full-Text

Keywords: drought; optimization modeling; hydrologic simulation; reservoir release operation

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Haidar, M.A.I.; Che, D.; Mays, L.W. Sustainable Water Allocation in Umarkhed Taluka through Optimization of Reservoir Operation in the Wardha Sub-Basin, India. Water 2022, 14, 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010114

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Haidar MAI, Che D, Mays LW. Sustainable Water Allocation in Umarkhed Taluka through Optimization of Reservoir Operation in the Wardha Sub-Basin, India. Water. 2022; 14(1):114. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010114

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Haidar, Md A.I., Daniel Che, and Larry W. Mays. 2022. "Sustainable Water Allocation in Umarkhed Taluka through Optimization of Reservoir Operation in the Wardha Sub-Basin, India" Water 14, no. 1: 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010114

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Md Atif Ibne Haidar

Md. Atif Haidar is currently a doctoral student at the Ohio State University. He obtained his master degree from Ohio University where he conducted research on optimization/hydrologic modeling of water resources management under climate change.

Daniel Che

Danny Che joined the Department of Civil Engineering at Ohio University in 2016. He teaches courses in water resources engineering and fluid mechanics. Che’s research primarily focuses on using computational optimization models to determine optimal designs of hydraulic structures and operation of water resource infrastructures. Before joining Ohio University, Che worked as a water resources engineer at Atkins North America, Inc., where he specialized in writing Python code for automating high-resolution hydrologic and hydraulics (H&H) model development and simulations. Che has worked on projects for Mohave County, Lake Havasu City, Maricopa County, and Riverside County; the findings of these projects were presented to state and federal agencies in order to determine new flood hazard areas and develop emergency plans in those regions.

Larry W. Mays

Larry W. Mays is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. He earned his B.S. (1970) and M.S. (1971) in civil engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla (now the Missouri School of Science and Technology) and the Ph.D. in water resources engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1976 and has been bestowed the Distinguished Alumnus Award from UIUC. His academic career has spanned over 43 years, first at the University of Texas at Austin 1976 - 1989 and then continuing for the last 30 years at Arizona State University. At the University of Texas at Austin, he served as the Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources, and at Arizona State University, he served as Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department from 1989 to 1996. Awards have included the 2014 ASCE Julian Hinds Award, the 2015 Warren A. Hall Medal from the Universities Council on Water Resources, the 2016 ASCE Ven Te Chow Award, the ASCE Arid Lands Hydraulic Engineering Award, and the 6th Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Surface Water. He has published extensively his research in water resources engineering and has been the author, co-author, or editor of 24 books.

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