prioritizing sub-watersheds flooding intensity for structural damaging flood control and managing

nowadays multicriteria decision making (mcdm) methods are a useful tool for investigating natural resources and toaddress problems related to hydro systems. the goal of this research was to assess the daliri standardization method(dsm) to prioritize and make selections for application to mcdm. and to compare the dsm method with the utilityadditive (uta) method. the (dsm) method, unlike the (uta) method, lines up choices without incorporating adecision-maker. moreover, by conditioned weights, linear or exponential functions, the choices partial additive function isformulated in the lingo program and finally, the total additive function is used to make priorities among the choices. inthis study, 47 sub-watersheds in eastern khurasan province were evaluated according to 25-year return periods for flood,lag time and fatal-cost damage. results of the (dsm) method were accompanied by all multi-component goals in subbasinsbased on real data. the utility function of each method was compared with data relating to the kan river northwestof tehran, and comparison showed that 80 percent of the results were the same, so the dsm method can be considered asmore logical and sensible than the uta method. this evaluation was made without consideration of site variation, so itcan be used effectively in watershed flood management to prevent investment in low priority sub-basins.