Fuzzy Rules in Reservoir Management

Reservoirs form a major water resources system and their optimal operation is a very important area of water resource planning and management, as the interrelationship between some of the variables is nonlinear in nature. Con?icting and complementary uses of reservoir storage have to be scienti?cally addressed and managed for the e?cient and e?ective water resources management. Due to the temporal variation of in?ows and multipurpose demands, the task of allocation of available water becomes more complex. The application of system analysis to reservoir system design, operation and management is very important (Biswas, 1976). The evaluation of current operating rules of existing reservoirs or forming operation rules, in case it is absent, is very important to meet the changing demands according to the public needs and objectives. The aim of this paper is to develop a Fuzzy Rule Based (FRB) model for reservoir management.