Book Description

The River Basin Model which is a man-machine simulation model, used primarily to replicate the interactions taking place, within a real or hypothetical area, between the local water system and the full range of economic, social, and governmental activities of that area. It is a water resource model representing supply of, demand for, and quality of water, but it is also a labor market model, a land use and assessment model, and several more; it is a model of an entire regional system with water a subsystem realistically interacting with all the other major subsystems; the output from the operating programs of the computer package illustrate the impact that the water system has on such phenomena as housing selection, employment, and government budgetary activity. Model users are given control over all the resources of the local area being represented.