The Rasina () is a river in south central Serbia. The long river flows through the Serbian Rasina region, gives its name to the modern Rasina District of Serbia, and flows into the Zapadna Morava near the city of Kruà ¡evac.
Its historical name is Arsen (ÃÂÃÂÃÂõóñ).
The Rasina springs from the southern slopes of the Goàmountain, near the village of Raà ¡ovka, southwest of the most famous Serbian spa, VrnjaÃÂka Banja. The river originally flows to the southeast, around the mountains of à ½eljin and Kopaonik, next to the villages of Mitrovo Polje, Bzenica, Pleà ¡, Jablanica, GrÃÂak, ToskiÃÂi, Budilovina and Milentija. When the Rasina reaches the small town of Brus, it enters the upper Rasina region and continues next to the villages of Trà ¡anovci, Lepenac and Razbojna.
At this point the river reaches the western side of the Veliki Jastrebac mountain, and makes a wide, elbow turn to the north. In this part of the course, the Rasina also makes a southeast border of the AleksandrovaÃÂka à ½upa region. After the villages of Bogià ¡e and Zlatari, the Rasina has been dammed at the village of ÃÂelije, with an artificial lake ÃÂelije.
The lower Rasina region is densely populated (villages of Suvaja, Majdevo, à  titare, Grkljane, à  ogolj, à  avrane, Gornji Stepoà ¡, Bukovica, Donji Stepoà ¡, Lipovac, Malo Golovode, Donje Golovode), with the administrative center of the Rasina District, Kruà ¡evac. In its lower course, the Rasina is followed by a parallel flow of the Pepeljuà ¡a river, which flows into the Zapadna Morava separately. Seven kilometers after Kruà ¡evac, the Rasina flows into the Zapadna Morava at the village of Makreà ¡ane.
The Rasina drains an area of , belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin and it is not navigable.
Reservoir was formed in 1980, when high dam was built. The lake was created as a part of the regulation program of the Velika Morava river, that is, as part of the project that to reduce the amount of sediments which would ultimately reach the Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station and its Lake ÃÂerdap. The usage of the lake water for the Kruà ¡evac waterworks wasn't part of the original project. In 1984, a water treatment plant was built in the village of Majdevo. The plant was reconstructed in 2012 and, due to the increased capacity, the waterworks in the municipalities of ÃÂiÃÂevac and Varvarin were connected to the grid.
The lake was designed to serve for water supply until 2030 due to its serviceable volume decrease, but the soil erosion in the watershed is lessen then the one that had been foreseen and the life span of the lake will be significantly longer.
In May 2019, preliminary examination by the Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia concluded that there is a basis for the legal protection of the lake as a natural monument.