Broadly understood agricultural-arrangement works are a tool for the implementation of multifunctional rural areas development. These works are defined as a set of integrated technical, organizational and legal procedures, taking into account the natural, economic, legal and social conditions, aimed at adapting the spatial structure of the area to the needs of its sustainable development, including new organization of agricultural production space. These may be activities in the field of water resources management, the purpose of which is to minimize the occurrence of extreme water-related phenomena – droughts and floods. However, it should be emphasized that these works are multidimensional. In addition to their positive impact on water resources, they create favourable conditions for the development of biological diversity, maintaining cultural landscape or limiting pollution to water. However, such activities may be properly planned and carried out in the course of the agricultural-arrangement works only when it is possible to identify and determine the elements that affect the circulation of water in rural space.