Designing hydraulic structures

The process of creation and use of hydraulic structures, especially dams, is long, troublesome, painstaking, and costly. What precedes this process is a water utilization design for the hydraulic system or the hydraulic scheme to which the dam, or the hydraulic structure that is to be built, belongs. This phase is highly significant, since the water economies are being set increasingly more complex tasks, caused by increasingly large demands made on water resources as a result of increased consumption of water, reduction of available waters, as well as increased demands in relation to the efficiency of hydraulic systems.