News & Events

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...

The Bureau of Reclamation hired two MS students from the CEAE Water Resources program as trainees in the Bureau of Reclamation Pathways Program . Elliot Alexander and Conor Felletter will assist Reclamation technical staff stationed at CADSWES with ongoing Colorado River Basin planning studies and will also undertake research for...

Over 100 members of the global RiverWare community shared modeling applications and discussed new and upcoming enhancements. The meeting was held Aug. 23–24, 2016, in Boulder, Colorado.

Two river system operation professionals from Barqi Tojik, the agency that operates the Vakhsh River, and a project manager from Manitoba Hydro International trained at CADSWES, July 25–29, 2016. They arranged a private class to learn how to use RiverWare for operating their system and began to develop a model...