Introduction

1. Introduction Water Resources Planning and Management Daene C. McKinney www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/mckinney/teaching/ce385d-wrpm.html

2. Course Objectives • Introduction to • Water resource systems • Planning, design, and operation • Application of • Economic principles (Cost – Benefit and Microeconomic analysis) • Operations research (linear and nonlinear optimization, and simulation modeling) to various water resource allocation problems

3. Course Outcomes • Students should be able to • Develop and solve various types of water resources planning and management (WRPM) models • Understand the advantages and limitations of modeling methods and algorithms used in WRPM • Understand and appreciate how models can be used in WRPM • Understand and critically evaluate WRPM literature

4. Course Topics • Planning and Management: • Institutional objectives and constraints • Alternative identification and evaluation • Modeling advantages and limitations • Economic Analysis: • Cost-benefit and microeconomic analysis • Modeling: • Application of models, solution methods • Integrated River Basin Planning

5. Housekeeping • Text • Loucks, Daniel P. and Eelco van Beek, Water Resources Systems Planning and Management: An Introduction to Methods, Models and Applications, (online) • Various readings (online) • Homework • Mix of Book-type and Computer-type problems • Exams • 2 exams, No makeups, No final • Grading • Exams (1) 25% each • Homework 25% • Project: 50% • A 92-100%A- 89-91%B+ 86-88% B 82-85%B- 79-81%

6. Projects • Work in teams on real, complex WRPM issues of current interest • Teams make oral presentations of results and deliver final report • Purposes • Enable you to explore in-depth an aspect of WRPM • Provide experience in: • Investigating • Writing • Oral reporting • Teamwork