RiverWare Training

RiverWare training classes continue in an instructor-led online format via Zoom. Attendees are sent meeting information after registering.

Held in-person at CADSWES. For users who want to use rule logic to drive modeling solutions. Prerequisite is: Introduction to Simulation.

Held in-person at CADSWES. For users who want to use the optimization solver to determine best solutions for defined objectives. Prerequisite is: Rulebased Simulation.

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...

Mitch Clement traveled to Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in Portland, OR to teach a three-day customized RiverWare training session September 19–21. BPA uses RiverWare for real-time hourly scheduling of their 10 large projects on the Columbia and Snake Rivers to meet hydropower and flow objectives and short-term optimization to maximize...

David Neumann of CADSWES traveled to Colombo, Sri Lanka, to continue teaching RiverWare to the Mahaweli Water Security Investment Program (MWSIP) of the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment. The workshop, held July 31–August 11, 2017, included the Rulebased Simulation training class material as well as user support to help...

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...

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,...

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...