Aquarius: A Water Allocation Model
A model for optimizing water allocation based on economic demand functions, called Aquarius, has been developed in cooperation with scientists at Colorado State University. Version 97 was released in 1997 along with its description in the RM-GTR-299 publication. Since then the model it has been improved and expanded. The latest version is available at this web site.
Brown, Thomas C. Gustavo E. Diaz, and Oli G. B. Sveinsson. 2002. Planning Water Allocation in River Basins--Aquarius: A System's Approach. Proceedings of 2nd Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Subcommittee on Hydrology of the Advisory Committee on Water Information, July 28-August 1. Las Vegas, NV.
Diaz, Gustavo E., Thomas C. Brown, and Oli Sveinsson. 2000. Aquarius: A Modeling System for River Basin Water Alloction. General Technical Report RM-GTR-299-revised, Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 172 p.
Introductory material, Contents, Executive Summary, and Chapter 1 (729 KB PDF file)
Chapters 2 and 3 (1.9 MB PDF file)
Chapter 4 (633 KB PDF file)
Chapter 5 (1.1 MB PDF file)
Chapter 6 (493 KB PDF file)
Chapters 7 and 8 (1.1 MB PDF file)
Chapter 8 has not yet been updated to reflect the latest software version.
Appendices (682 KB PDF file)
Diaz, Gustavo E. and Thomas C. Brown. 1997. AQUARIUS: A General Model for Efficient Water Allocation in River Basins. Proceedings of 27th Congress of the International Association for Hydraulic Research, Theme A: Managing Water: Coping with Scarcity and Abundance. August 10-15, San Francisco, CA. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York. pp. 405-410.
Diaz, Gustavo E. and Thomas C. Brown. 1997. Aquarius: An Object-Oriented Model for Efficient Allocation of Water in River Basins. Proceedings of AWRA/UCOWR Symposium Water Resources Education, Training, and Practice: Opportunities for the Next Century. June 29-July 3, Keystone, CO. Edited by John J. Warwick, pp. 835-844.
Diaz, G.E., T.C. Brown, V. Gudanti, and H.O. Sharif. 1996. AQUARIUS: An object-oriented model for the economically efficient allocation of water in river basins. Proceedings of the sixteenth Annual American Geophysical Union Hydrology Days, April 1996, Colorado State University, H. Morel-Seytoux, editor, pp. 111-117.
Diaz, Gustavo E., Thomas C. Brown, and Hubert J. Morel-Seytoux. 1992. The Marginal Economic Value of Streamflows: A Systems Approach. Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Twelfth Annual Hydrology Days, March 31-April 3, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO. Edited by Hubert J. Morel-Seytoux. Hydrology Days Publications. Atherton, CA. 419 pp.