Development of the Methodology for Assessing the Availability of Rural Areas with River Flow Resources and Its Application

Abstract

The article presents a methodology for assessing the provision of territories with river fl ow resources and considers the application of the methodology on the example of Inzhavinsky municipal district of the Tambov Region. A step-by-step algorithm of working with the methodology is proposed, and a classifi cation of territories by the degree of river fl ow resources provision is created. The purpose of the study is to develop an actual methodology for assessing the provision of rural areas with river fl ow resources on the basis of modern data. Materials and methods. Analysis and generalisation of primary data of hydrological yearbooks on water discharge were carried out by methods of mathematical statistics, cartographic and linear interpolation. Results and discussion. Based on the studied Russian and foreign experience of water availability assessment, the author's original methodology for assessing the availability of river fl ow resources in the territories was proposed. The methodology consists of 12 consecutive stages. The classifi cation of territories by the degree of river fl ow resource endowment was created, including 4 types of river fl ow resource endowment. Conclusions. The authors have applied the methodology for assessing the provision of rural areas with river fl ow resources on the example of the Tambov Region. The methodology is a sequential algorithm of actions from the initial stage of digitisation of primary measurement data and calculations of river runoff to the fi nal stage − compilation of a map of river runoff resource availability of territories. According to the classifi cation of territories according to the degree of river fl ow resource availability in the year of 75 % availability within the Inzhavinsky district of the Tambov Region, given in the article as an example, the territories belonging to the zones of extremely low, very low, low, high and very high-water availability are marked.