River Basin Water Resource Integral Management Support System Development

Integral management of water resources in a river basin generally comprises realization of a complex structure of complex water resource and hydroenergetic, as well as social, economic, urban, environmental, transportation, tourist, cultural and other goals. Solution of the issues of integral management of water resources in river basins is in accordance with the actual legislative regulations and the Water Framework Directive of EU (2000/60/EU) and it is a very complex task whose solution calls for application of integrated informatics tools. The subject of research in this project is the integral approach to river basin water resource integral management, which comprises analysis, learning of and analysis of all the components and goals of the complex structure and their interdependencies using existing historical and current data bases, contemporary simulation and optimization models, careful planning and production of appropriate scenarios in order to attain optimal high efficiency strategies. Within research of the integral approach to solving the river basin water resources management issue, a special attention will be paid to the development of the decision making support system. The system will be organized as GIS oriented interactive user environment, inside which RDBM (Relational Database Management) module, simulation and optimization model are dynamically linked. This system will facilitate, for perceived problems in the observed river basin, and for clearly defined goals, creation of alternative scenarios of water resources management, examination of their efficiency, impact on water resources, environment and entire watershed, as well as selection of most favorable management scenarios and definition and development of implementation procedure of selected management strategy.