The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has developed a state water plan, introduced by Governor Harris, which calls for the state to construct 12 regional reservoirs in north Georgia and to fund design and construction for approximately 30 local reservoirs. The 1989 Georgia General...

The Water Resources Development Act of 1986(WRDA 86), Public Law 99-662, established new rules for the cost sharing of Federally authorized water resources projects. For the first time, sponsors are required to sharein the cost of feasibility studies to ensure that dwindling Federal dollars are...

The feedback based integrated assessment model ANEMI represents the society-biosphereclimate- economy-energy system of the earth and biosphere. The development of ANEMI model is done using the system dynamics simulation approach that (a) allows understanding and modeling of complex global change...

Paper presented at The Seventh International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE) hosted by the College of Engineering at Drexel Univeristy on September 10-13, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference theme was IT in the Field of HydroSciences. It included several...

Water managers increasingly are faced with the challenge of building public or stakeholder support for resource management strategies. Building support requires raising stakeholder awareness of resource problems and understanding about the consequences of different policy options. One approach...

Water Resource (WR) management problems with a multiperiod feature are associated to mathematical optimization models that handle thousandss of constraints and variables depending on the level of adherence required to reach a significant representation of the system. Moreover these problems are...

This publication provides detailed documentation of the load forecast scenarios and assumptions used in preparing BPA's 1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (the Study). This is one of two technical appendices to the Study; the other appendix details the utility-specific loads and...