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safe yield

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safe yield [′sāf ′yēld]
(civil engineering)
The maximum dependable draft that can be made continuously upon a source of water supply over a given period of time during which the probable driest period, and therefore period of greatest deficiency in water supply, is likely to occur.
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The Formulation of Optimization Problems In groundwater management, the concept of the so called safe yield has been used for several decades by hydrogeologists all over the world to establish the limits of pumpage from a groundwater basin.
Optimal extraction of groundwater in Gaza coastal aquifer by Qahman, Khalid; Larabi, Abdelkader; Ouazar, Driss; Naji, Ahmed; Cheng, Alexander H.-D. / Journal of Water Resource and Protection (JWARP)
Moreover, the spread between corporate borrowing rates and safe yields on Treasury securities has narrowed greatly, indicating more desire for risk, although this spread has not yet returned to its level before the September crisis.
SIGNS OF PROGRESS ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY by James C. Cooper / BusinessWeek
It has a safe yield of almost 5 million gallons a day.
Charlton to get town's water; Agreement helps business, homes by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
 
 
 
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