Increase in the effectiveness of the recreational use of reservoirs

1. The number of natural water bodies suitable for recreation is decreasing continuously as they are being developed for recreational purposes. Reservoirs are promising objects of water-management construction whose recreational significance will increase contiously as urbanization progresses and the population density increases. 2. In view of the fact that existing reservoirs are still being used insufficiently for recreation and foreseeing a considerable expansion of their number in the future, a systematic search for ways of increasing the effectiveness of the recreational use of reservoirs and the realization of the possibilities are an important and urgent economic and social problem of the present and of the near and remote future. 3. To increase the effectiveness of the recreational use of reservoirs it is necessary to compile a general scheme of the use of inland water bodies, including reservoirs, for recreation and to determine the need for creating special reservoirs for recreation in the future with reservation of the territory for them; to develop local schemes for individual water bodies most useable and promising for immediate development, and also standard designs of special recreational establishments on water; to design recreational systems with consideration of the long-range plan of creation of reservoirs; when designing reservoirs to take into account the possibilities of their recreational use and to develop in advance measures needed for this as a part of the reservoir preparation plans; to conduct water-area-territorial planning in zones of the reservoir and clear-cut zoning of the recreational territories; to investigate the resistance of the landscape and water area to the recreational loads in various natural-climatic zones and to develop an effective mechanism for protecting the recreational territories; to investigate the possibility of increasing the recreational capacity of the landscape and water area by implementing a number of engineering, forestry, organizational, and other measures; to design and implement all measures with consideration of the dynamics of natural phenomena and processes in the shore zone of reservoirs.