Evaluating RiverWare’s® Ability To Simulate Colorado’s Water Right Systems (2019-2020)

In 2019-2020 Precision conducted a Colorado Water Conservation Board grant-funded study evaluating RiverWare’s® simulation of water rights and comparing it to that of the CDSS StateMod surface water system modeling platform. This was accomplished by developing a RiverWare® model that simulates the water rights system of Colorado’s White River basin, and by analyzing and comparing its simulation process and results against the existing StateMod model of the same basin. Overall, RiverWare® was found to be able to simulate the allocation of available flow by water rights and other associated operations, in a very similar, if not identical, manner to StateMod.