RiverWare
Training: Water Accounting
Colorado River
  April 14–17, 2025 (Mon–Thu)
Registration closes 4/8 (after midnight MST, 4/7), or after 25 registrations.
  Register before midnight 3/30 and pay $1,200. Register between 3/31–4/7 and pay $1,350.
  REGISTRATION
General Information
 

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.

Course Description
 

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.

Information and Logistics
 
Tuition
Class size is limited, so register as soon as possible. You are confirmed as soon as your payment is received. Class fee is $1200. A late fee of $150 is added for registrations submitted after March 30. about student discounts.
Registration Cancelation Policy
  Registrations can be transferred to another person or to another class. Refunds are possible only if the registration is cancelled more than 10 days before the start date of the class. Any refund will have a 5% administration fee charged against it.
Credit Cards and Security
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Notifications and Questions
 

Please to let us know of your intention to register. Although we are unable to hold space without your registration and payment information, knowledge of your intention will allow us to alert you when the class is filling and your registration/paperwork is yet to arrive.

Also if you wish to schedule a special session, be notified of upcoming classes, be placed on a waiting list, or if you have questions about the class, accommodations, travel, student rates, etc.

 
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