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Water Resource Management Simulator
The Water Resources Management Simulator is an
interactive computer simulator developed for youth
and adult water resources education programs by
Montana State University. Initially developed with
funding from the Bureau of Reclamation and other
agencies in the early 1980's as a large computer-based
interactive graphic display, the simulator has
evolved as technology advanced to a software
system that runs on 386/486/pentium computers.
The goal for the simulation is to place participants in
a decision making role, dealing with real problems
and compromises involved in watershed
management in a "real time", interactive simulation.
The simulator may be operated by a mouse or,
preferably, by audience control units that spread the
decision making over several participant groups who
individually control aspects of the watershed -
reservoir, agricultural water supply, and municipal
water supply, and who find that they must work
together to effectively manage the watershed.
Participants devise and evaluate water management
strategies, and test these via the simulator's actual
water supply and demands data.
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