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Several people from CADSWES went to the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, December 11–15, 2017. Tim Magee presented "Optimizing Water Use and Hydropower Production in Operational Reservoir System Scheduling with RiverWare" on Thursday 12/14 at 9:45 am. Edith Zagona is co-author. They are also co-authors with Measrainsey Meng...

“ Cooperative filling approaches for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ” by Kevin G. Wheeler, Mohammed Basheer, Zelalem T. Mekonnen, Sami O. Eltoum, Azeb Mersha, Gamal M. Abdo, Edith A. Zagona, Jim W. Hall & Simon J. Dadson was awarded the 2016 Water International Best Paper Award by the International...

Edie Zagona and Mitch Clement provided a five-day training class, “Advanced River Basin Planning Using RiverWare,” to 32 water resources modelers from various regions and agencies in India. The class was hosted by the Water Resources Dept., Government of Rajasthan in Jaipur, and was funded by the World Bank Hydrology...

Edie Zagona and Mitch Clement provided a five-day class, “Advanced River Basin Planning Using RiverWare,” to 30 water resources modelers from multiple regions and agencies in India. The class, held January 30–February 3, 2017, in Ahmedabad, was funded by the World Bank Hydrology Program. The training was well received, and...

CADSWES hosted its annual R&D Sponsor Meeting with Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Authority that reports on the accomplishments of the R&D activities in FY2016 and discusses the R&D priorities for the current and coming year. The meeting was held February 16, 2017 at...

CADSWES is the home of RiverWare , and a new release is now available. RiverWare version 7.0 is the latest release and can be downloaded from the RiverWare website for our current users. If you are interested in more information about RiverWare or making a purchase, please contact us. Some...

The Mahaweli Water Security Investment Program (MWSIP) of the Ministry of Mahaweli Development & Environment in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is going to be using RiverWare to manage their new water balance model that Lahmeyer International has begun developing for them. David Neumann went to Colombo, Sri Lanka, in December, 2016,...

Tim Magee and Mitch Clement attended the Centre for Energy Advancement through Innovation (CEATI) Hydropower Workshop: “ Optimizing Hydropower Operations – Mathematical Modelling Tools .” Tim gave a presentation, “ RiverWare Optimization ” and participated in a presentation with TVA and Riverside Technology, Inc., “ The Challenges of System-Wide Operations...

Tim Magee attended the workshop “ Understanding the Water-Energy Nexus: Integrated Water and Power System Modelling ” organized jointly by the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) on September 28–29, 2016 at the Joint Research Centre’s Laboratories in Ispra, Italy. The two-day event focused on sharing scenarios, case...

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a nonprofit federal power marketing administration based in the Pacific Northwest. As of September 13, 2016, they have successfully operationalized the HERMES IT infrastructure system, officially used for modeling the Federal Columbia River Power System . RiverWare is the modeling tool used in this system...