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Efficient Water Management is an important factor for regional development and requires a set of actions in order to manage water resources in a sustainable way. This paper describes a methodology of water resources exploitation, with the potential of creating small mountainous and upland reservoirs. This can be done with the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), while using the SWAT hydrological modeling and Reservoir Simulation software. Andros Island was chosen as the study area. This project involves the hydrologic analysis and the assessment of runoff (using SWAT model for a 100 years simulation in the Afrouses basin). In two different selected sites, the feasibility of constructing a dam with the simultaneous creation of a reservoir based on annual failure rates of deliverability of certain volume of water is investigated.
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Kalogeropoulos, K., Chalkias, C., Pissias, E., Karalis, S. (2011). Application of the SWAT model for the investigation of reservoirs creation. In: Lambrakis, N., Stournaras, G., Katsanou, K. (eds) Advances in the Research of Aquatic Environment. Environmental Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24076-8_9
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