Design yield of a storage reservoir is kept _______________
(a) higher than its firm or safe yield
(b) lower than its firm or safe yield
(c) equal to its firm or safe yield
(d) higher or lower than the firm yield depending upon the designer’s intuition
The question was posed to me in an international level competition.
This interesting question is from Reservoir Capacity Determination Using Hydrograph and Mass-curve topic in portion Reservoirs and Dam Reservoirs Planning of Irrigation Engineering