Keywords: reservoir, water management complex, optimization criterion, irrigation, controlling floods, water user

// Мелиорация. – 2016. – №2(76).– С. 52—61

In this article along with overall optimization algorithm of water utilization system in small rivers, the conditions for application of the proposed criterion, the composition of the required input data are included and the impact of the major factors in the selection of optimal solutions is analyzed, i.e. to determine the optimal capacity of the reservoir and the area of irrigated land.