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RiverWare
In today's highly competitive water resources setting, managers of river and reservoir systems are frequently confronted with difficult operational and planning decisions. Increasing demands for limited water resources lead to intense debate and scrutiny of technical analyses, conclusions and decisions based on those analyses. It is critical that policy makers have reliable tools to evaluate operational policies both thoroughly and efficiently.
RiverWare™ is a reservoir and river basin simulation and optimization modeling environment ideal for evaluating operational policy, system optimization, water accounting, water rights administration, and long-term resource planning. RiverWare is a customizable modeling environment in which the user creates a basin network model and selects appropriate methods for simulating the physical processes on each basin feature. Operating policies are expressed via rules that are interpreted during the simulation process. Its user-friendly interface and data processing and graphical output utilities simplify communicating technical information to stakeholders.
For more than 20 years, Hydrosphere has worked with clients to develop river basin models to analyze dozens of basins throughout the United States. The RiverWare team at Hydrosphere has applied RiverWare to a variety of water resource management issues including:
- Operational policy and water supply planning
- Interstate compact compliance
- Water rights administration and litigation
- Conjunctive use of surface and groundwater resources
- Water accounting
- NEPA / EIS activities
- Climate change and water supply forecasting (uncertainty and risk assessments)
- System efficiency
Our RiverWare clients include:
- US Bureau of Reclamation
Basin: Colorado River and its tributaries (western U.S.) - Lower Colorado River Authority
Basin: Colorado River (Texas) - New Mexico Office of the State Engineer and Interstate Stream Commission
Basin: Pecos River and Rio Grande (New Mexico) - Consortium of Colorado state agencies and stakeholders
Basin: Colorado River and its tributaries (Colorado) - Tarrant
Regional Water District
Basin: Trinity River (Texas) - El Dorado Irrigation
District
Basin: South Fork American River (California)
RiverWare was developed by the Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems at the University of Colorado under joint sponsorship by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.