This course is 3.5 days long. Here is a draft agenda, with scheduled times for presentations and group sessions. The schedule allows some flexibility in the amount of time spent working on the tutorial exercises.

An email containing detailed information, including how to obtain the required files, will be sent to all registered attendees at least one week before the first day of the course. A hard copy of the training manual will also shipped to each registered attendee. Please be sure to provide the physical address to which you wish the manual be shipped when filling out the registration form.

Prerequisites:The Simulation and the Rulebased Simulation courses.

The Water Accounting course provides an introduction to modeling water ownership, water type, and/or water rights using RiverWare’s Water Accounting solution approach. This will allow you to track both the physical water and the “color” of the water, often called “paper” water. This class requires a basic understanding of the simulation and rulebased simulation techniques.

You will learn how accounting works to model water ownership or type within any basin. We will show you how to run an accounting model and view results. You will convert a pure simulation model into an accounting model by creating accounts, selecting accounting methods, and linking them to represent how water can be transferred throughout the basin. We will explain how to use rulebased simulation to access and set accounting values as necessary in a basin that is driven by ownership or type. The class culminates in an interactive exercise where you learn about the priority date based water rights allocation solver and apply it to a sample basin using the accounting system. Finally, we show you how to debug the system and present additional utilities that you can use to analyze the solution.

This class has been taught for over 10 years by the RiverWare research and development team and has consistently received positive feedback.