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Learn how SEI’s innovative water modelling tool allows researchers and policymakers to advance sustainable and equitable water planning in this informative webinar, recorded 24 January 2024.
SEI’s flagship water modelling tool, WEAP, has surpassed 50 000 users. And it’s turning 35 years old! We celebrated WEAP’s achievements by highlighting how the tool has helped crack water planning puzzles and what the software can do for you in research, policy-making and more.
This interactive webinar was held 24 January 2024.
Watch the recording to hear about user experiences with WEAP and learn how WEAP has informed policymaking and research all over the world with a presentation by SEI’s Jack Sieber. Additionally, a panel of experts working at the frontier of water resources management and policymaking addressed key issues in sustainable and equitable water use.
Speakers include:
Marina Mautner, Scientist, SEI (moderator)
Jack Sieber, Senior Scientist, SEI
Melina Balderrama, Program Coordinator, Bolivia WATCH
Joy Busolo, Senior Climate Change Specialist, World Bank Group
Kamyar Guivetchi, Manager of Division of Planning, California Department of Water Resources (DWR)
David Yates, Scientist in the Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado
Our panellists provided insights from their experiences using WEAP to inform decision-making in protecting water quality and quantity.
Tool / The Water Evaluation and Planning tool (WEAP) provides a comprehensive, flexible and user-friendly framework for policy analysis in water resources planning.
Tool / WEAP proporciona un marco integral, flexible y fácil de usar para el análisis de políticas en la planeación de recursos hídricos.
SEI brief / This brief presents a new plug-in for the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) software to calculate water stress by catchment area.
Feature / Water managers must balance the needs of aquatic habitat and human supply. SEI Scientist Doug Chalmers explains a new approach to help resolve that tension.
Project / SEI is studying the evaporation from the Lower Snake River reservoirs in the northwest United States, as authorities explore removing four dams.
Design and development by Soapbox.
