The State Water Project / Central Valley Project is a huge and complicated system of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, pumps, and canals that brings water from Northern California to the agriculture of the Central Valley and and the urban regions of Southern California.  The Department of Water Resources and the Bureau of Land Management have constructed an equally huge and complicated network model of the system, and mixed integer linear programming techniques are used to optimize deliveries to the clients (water districts and water agencies). The CALSIM-II model, and the corresponding software system, is also used to predict future deliveries of state water to the various agencies. In this project  we try to understand both the model and the software, try it out on some smaller artificial systems, investigate various forms of stability and error propagation, and evaluate the software as a predictive tool.

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