News & Events

All of us at CADSWES congratulate Mitch Clement on passing the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Professions and Occupations competency exam. He has earned his Professional Engineer (PE) license. The exam was held in Denver on April 13, and the official license was issued June 13, 2018. Well Done!

Three CADSWES hydropower researchers attended HydroVision International in Charlotte North Carolina, June 26 - 28. Considered to be the largest worldwide hydropower event of the year, HydroVision provides a week of informative hydropower focused meetings, technical presentations and perspectives on the role of hydropower in the evolving water energy nexus...

Mitch Clement attended the 2nd International Meeting on Decision Support Processes for Participatory Water Management: Building Capacities in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, in Valencia, Spain on April 17-19. The conference was hosted by the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia and co-organized by Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de...

Five modelers from the Ministry of Mahaweli Development & Environment in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and their stakeholder water users attended a one-week “Advanced River System Modeling with RiverWare” customized training session, February 26–March 2, 2018, at CADSWES. Also in attendance was a consultant from Lahmeyer International, who has been building...

Over 150 representatives from organizations in the U.S. and abroad shared innovative RiverWare models and applications, learned of upcoming enhancements and discussed their technical needs. The meeting was held Feb. 1–2, 2018, in Boulder, Colorado.

RiverWare version 7.2 is available to download Some of the highlights of this new release include: New Slot Viewer for easy viewing of multiple series slots. New RPL Viewer for improved usability of RPL editor dialogs. Enhanced Script Dashboard progress indicators. A new Slot Set utility that allows you to...

Two journal articles were recently published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), one in the Journal of Water Resources and Planning and Management: “Development and Implementation of an Optimization Model for Hydropower and Total Dissolved Gas in the Mid-Columbia River System” Witt, Adam, T. Magee, K. Stewart, B Hadjerioua,...

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...