Study on Water Regulation of Yong’an River Basin Based on Ecological Flow Guarantee

Abstract

Water resources are the necessary guarantee to support the development of human society and one of the most important resources to maintain the health and stability of the ecological environment. With the gradual increase of China’s population and the gradual increase of water consumption for industry, life and agriculture, the water consumption for ecological environment can not be met. As a result, some rivers have dried up, biological habitat has been lost and species diversity has been reduced. Therefore, how to ensure the river ecological flow is a very urgent problem to be solved. This paper selects Yong’an River Basin as the research object. Yong’an river is a mountainous river with the characteristics of uneven distribution of natural runoff throughout the year and seasonal water shortage. At present, the ecological flow demand of the river has not been considered in the reservoir operation. In this paper, four different scheduling schemes are set up according to the two constraints of ecological base flow and target ecological flow. Finally, the reservoir group operation scheme with better water supply assurance rate and ecological flow assurance rate is determined.