Rivers Network

To better understand how these uncertainties affect the complex tasks of water resources management, the Decision Center for a Desert City has been using a water and supply demand model, called WaterSim This model has been implemented for the Central Arizona region and used primarily in four ways: Understand the dynamic nature of managing a complex water supply and demand system for urban regions.

*Explore the effectiveness of various water management policies.

*Explore the uncertainty of regional growth and climate change by understanding the impact different growth and climate change

*scenarios may have on the region’s complex water system and management policies.

*Explore how people make decisions for highly complex problems that are subject to high uncertainty.