On the role of Hydrological balancing in lake basin management

Management of water resources in complex environmental systems including lakes or reservoir, requires advanced hydrological modelling to forecast main state parameters (levels, volumes, temperature, pollution level, …) and impacts of human activities on the natural context. In this work an opensource computational model is applied and tested in a typical Italian lake environment, the Bolsena lake, where surface flows, deep flows, direct losses from the lake surface, the lake regulation volume, and anthropic uses (drawing from and discharging into the lake) are jointly involved.