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Policy Analysis
In recent years there has been increasing interest in a more integrated approach to water resources planning and management. This interest has arisen from increasing competition for finite water resources among numerous different water use demands.
Hydrosphere has played a leading role in several high-profile studies where integrated resources planning has been a central theme. Hydrosphere and its antecedents have more than 35 years' experience applying public policy analysis, resource economics, institutional analysis and innovative analytical techniques to water resources.
- Simulation of historical and hypothetical hydrologic conditions
- Linear and non-linear programming for basin-wide economic optimization under constrained water supply
- Application of Markov processes to evaluate hypothetical water supply scenarios
- Benefit-cost studies of water supply and hydroelectric projects
- Market-based approaches to water-quality management
- Risk analysis
- Regional economic and environmental impacts of water supply projects and finance
- Selection, design and evaluation of water rate structures
- Water demand estimation, forecasting and management
- Assessment of attitudes regarding water supply risk and reliability
- Evaluation of statutory changes for increasing water use efficiency
- Water marketing facilitation
- Analysis of coordinated operations of traditionally separate systems
We offer water resources policy makers both a familiarity with the relevant institutional settings and a full complement of planning tools, including:
Choices among policy options are likely to be broad, the diversity of implications which must be considered great, the potential for conflict intense, and the institutional setting which must be understood complex. Hydrosphere is widely regarded as having an excellent grasp of these issues. We provide our clients with the most appropriate and powerful techniques for the problem at hand.