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1. Introduction: Welcome to the course. This course is about getting started in water
resources management. Using WEP software. Is water evaluation and
planning system toward one of the most powerful software, water resources management. You are interested
in the challenges of the water resources, climatic change, and
the environment. You want to rest it in the
water policy analysis? If the answer is yes, then this course is for you. My name is Emma little tipsy. I am a master graduate water
resources and environment. I worked as a teacher assistant what I thought
hydro informatics lab in Jordan University of
Science and Technology. I also worked as a
research assistant at Helmholtz Center for Environmental
Research in Germany. Let's have a look at the
content of this course. Listen one is an introduction, listened to, I will give
an overview of the week. And listen three, you will learn how to install and activate
the weep software. Listen for, I will explain
the wave structure. Some five examples
of analysis that can be done using the
week will be provided. And listen to x. I will explain the
way modelling steps. And listen and listen. Eight, I will talk about
the web capabilities. And finally, the conclusion. By the end of this course, you will obtain the basics and the fundamental
knowledge to start the water management modelling using the interesting
We software. Let's get started.
2. Overview of WEAP: Welcome to the course. In this lesson, you will
have an overview of the water resources
management using weep. Weep is a shortcut for water evaluation and
planning system. So what is weep? Weep is a user-friendly
software tool that takes an integrated approach
to water resources planning. It is a tool that is used
to build simulation models. Whip is applicable to municipal
and agricultural systems. Single sub-basins are
complex reverts systems. But over, we can address
a wide range of issues. For example, sectoral
demand analysis, water conservation, water rights and
application priorities, groundwater and instream
flow simulations. Is it of what operations, hydrology generation
and energy demands, pollution tracking,
ecosystem requirements, and project
benefit-cost analysis. That was developed in
1988 by this two columns, environment and institutes,
United States center. And it is an
authorized software by many institutions and
organizations worldwide. In the next lesson,
I will show how to install and activate
the web software. Thanks for watching.
3. WEAP Installation and Activation: Hello again. In this lesson, you will
learn how to install and get a free license
of the software. Installing the web software
is very easy process. To download the web software. We go to the web official
website. They are below. Using WEP heading, we
find an icon download. From here we can download
the latest version. After downloading and
installing the week. We just throw out
the whip website. It's shown on the screen. We go to join in. There we provide
some information such as Title, FirstName, LastName, organization,
or university name, user, type, address, city or town, the country,
organization, websites. And most importantly,
describe the purpose of the project for which you
are considering using wave. And here if you are working
on a university project, a master thesis for example. You should mention that
because in this way, you can get approved license. By registering, we can
obtain many advantages, such as a free license in case you are a student or a type of user who work in a non-profit Environmental
Academy organization. Also, on this website, there is a group for
all the users all over the world where they shared their knowledge
and challenges. Now if we press licensing, there are many categories
based on the type of user. For example, non-profit, governmental or
academic organization. One student for use of their research while they are
enrolled at a university, a credit academy institution,
college, university, or a school based in an
industrialized country. Other users, none
consulting license, their users consulting license. Here, what should be done
to get a free license? In case you were a student
in a developing country, you can apply for a license
by taking the second choice. You can apply for a free
licensed by pressing on. Apply for a free license. It is a great if you can take the advantages of free license, then less than a
week, a license, username and registration code will be sent to you via e-mail. Without a license, the
program can work back. Some pictures do not work. For example, you cannot save
your adjustments every time. That is all of today's lesson. The next lesson, I will talk
about the web structure. Thanks for watching.
4. WEAP Structure: Welcome to the course. In this lesson, I will
talk about the structure. Well, the whip structure can be summarized by four main points. First of all, the
basic principle in the whip is the node
link architecture, which connects water
supply to demand sites. The water supplies,
which could be surface water or groundwater, and demand sites, which
could be domestic sites, agricultural sites, and
industrial demand side. Secondly, each
element is assigned a priority and a preference
among available supplies. And here you can determine the order in which
demands are met. For example, if you have
a periodicity to fulfill the demand in a certain location such as the capital city. But a certain cases
such as high priority to drinking water than
agriculture water. You can give this location
higher priority number. Also, you can
determine the order in which sources are used.
What does this mean? Well, we know that
the water is not available equally in
all water resources. Example, if we have lack of groundwater and availability
of surface water, here it is logical that we use the surface water and make the groundwater as a
second or last option. Here's the Whip, allows the user to manage
that by ordering the water resources
that should be used and prioritizing
the water usage. The third is that the whip is constrained by
link capacities. Here what we mean by
this point is that they pumped water is constrained
by three main elements. Number one is the
availability of water that can be abstracted. Number two, the capacities
and diameters of the buyers convey the water
and the water network. Also, another important point
that should be mentioned here is how far is
the water sources? Is, how far the
water resources is. Because water source means more energy cost and
more carbon emissions. Therefore, the whip is a great tool that
enables the user to control these constraints
for better water management. Last point here is that
linear programming solution optimizes the distribution
of water at each time step. This means that the algorithm of the web uses linear
programming for battle distribution of the water based on our
modelling and inputs. That is all of today's lesson. And next lesson is interesting. I will explain
different examples of analysis in the week. Thanks for watching.
5. Examples of Analysis: Hello again. Today's lesson
is very interesting. In this lesson, I will explain different examples of
analysis in the week. Let's start these examples by
sectorial demand analysis. This is the analysis of the water demand
based on the sector. For example, how much water
does the domestic sector, agricultural sector, the
industrial sector consume? Water conservation, the word
considered the water loss factor in the modeling and the analysis to better manage
and conserve water. Water rights and
allocation priorities. By determining the lack
of water in demand sites, we can determine the water
rights then to reallocate the priorities according to that and to the water sources
characteristics. As I have mentioned in
the previous lesson. Is there a part operations? How much water flowing? And our thesis, reservoirs, which is called
the water balance. Another type of analysis
is hydro power generation. Though it can be linked to
a software called leap to predict the potential
hydro-power energy that can be produced. Pollution tracking and analysis
for the pollutant that producers from the
wastewater treatment plants also can be done using weep. And finally, ecosystem
requirements. And this can be achieved by determining where
the lack of water is and what solutions and recommendations should
be made to our combat. That is off today's lesson. In the next lesson, I will explain the web modelling steps. Thanks for watching.
6. WEAP Modeling Steps: Hello again. In this lesson, I will explain
the web modelling steps. Shown figure illustrates
the procedures are the steps we pass through
to build a web model. The process tip, which
is the study definition, we have a spatial boundary, which is the area of study. Time horizon is the duration
that our model studies. For example, to
build a model for the next 30 years for a
30-year water policy. System components are the
elements in the study area, such as the water resource
and the demand supply. The network configuration
represents how these elements are connected in the network by
drawing a schematic. The second step, which
is current accounts, is the step in which we
enter the available data. We have the study area, the month, which could
be the demand for the domestic or
agricultural demand. What characteristics
such as the capacity and the annual recharge, the
groundwater aquifers. Rivers simulation,
simulation for rivers can be made and
very characteristics. Pollutant generation. Based on the wastewater
treatment plants data, we can determine the
pollutant concentration and the quantity of
the polluted water. Wastewater treatment
plants, we enter a data such as the capacities
and the pollutant loads. Remember that simple
models required only part of this data
and not all of it. After preparing the
study definition and the current account data, we move to the third step, which is the scenarios. Were different scenarios
can be built such as demographic and
economic activity, patterns of water use, pollution generation, water system infrastructure,
hydro-power, and location pricing and
environmental policy, component costs and hydrology. These scenarios will be explained
further when modelling. The last step of the
modelling as the evaluation. Here after running the model, now we can check the
water sufficiency, the ecosystem requirements,
and the pollutant loadings. Also, we can make a sensitivity
analysis by changing a certain parameter in the model and see what could
it change in the results. That is all of today's lesson. The next lesson,
I will talk about the interesting
capabilities of the week. Thanks for watching.
7. WEAP Capabilities – Part 1: Hello again. In this lesson, I will talk
about the wave capabilities. Well, the whip has many
wonderful capabilities. The capability number one is that the easy-to-use interface, which facilitates learning, data import, and
scenario development. As you can see on the screen, the web interface is
very easy to be used. On the top is the menu
bar as any software. Then to the left, there are five main views which represent the
steps of the modelling. We first draw a schematic, then import data after that to run the model
and see the results. And finally, to see more
results of the belt scenarios. The notes view is just for
adding notes when needed. So the first, the View
icon is the web schematic. Schematic is consisted
of three main parts. The first part, spatial
boundary or the study IDA. And here it is
possible to import a GIS file that facilitates
drawing the schematic. The second part of this schematic is the
system components, which can be selected from
the rectangle to the left. These components involve
River, ground water, demand side, transmission link that links the water source
with the demand side. And return flows
that return water to surface water or groundwater
or treatment plants. Because not a 100% of the
water will be consumed. Each component has different
color and sample as shown. The capability number two is that import can be thrown Prius, or the user specified functions. Here in the second
view icon data. The data can be entered
manually or from Excel files, which save a lot of time. By choosing each system
components of the schematic. From the left rectangle, we can see what data
can be entered. Reading from file. Here, as we have mentioned, that data can be
inserted from texts, access or access pi it. Moreover, other tools
that we provide are called building exhibitions
and time series wizard. Using these tools, the data can be interpolated using
different functions, such as the population
growth or to obtain a predicted data using
historical time series data. When choosing H function, we can read a description and an example of this function. The capability
number three is that multiple scenarios can be run and supply it
graphically at one time. As it is shown on
the result icon. All created scenarios
can be shown in one time or better
understanding and combating. Also, the results can be displayed a number of
formats and scales. You can determine which
scenarios and what appears to be home results in
place on the map. Another wonderful
capabilities is that the results can
be shown on the map. From map as shown on the screen. This helps to better understand the results and also to prepare
IT professional reports. Here also, you can determine
what results to be shown. The fourth few icon is
the scenario similar from this menu or detailed results of the scenarios can be shown. February charts can be selected
to five quick overviews. The full capability of the
whip is the use of nodes that allows for internal
documentation of scenarios. The advantage here is that when building a
complicated model, it will be a lot of details. So it would be very
helpful to decrement it, the data, assumptions and how the scenarios
would have felt. This way. Another person
wants to use the model. He can do that and
understand how it was built. From the notes I equal. Or that can be done for
any part of the model. That is all of today's lesson. In the next lesson,
we will continue talking about the
capabilities of the way. Ponder. Thanks for watching.
8. WEAP Capabilities – Part 2: Hello again. In this lesson, I
will continue talking about the interesting
capabilities of the way. The capability number five of the whip is that the hydrology, maybe climate, driven
from gauge data. This means that the data
can be obtained from the climate stations and be
inserted into the wave model. With this regard, there are different periods to represent hydrological data in the WIP, which will be explained in
the advanced whip course. The capability number
six is that the whip involves several internal
modules to choose from. For example,
hydropower generation, financial analysis,
and water quality. As shown on the screen. For the hydro-power, we
can specify capacities, efficiencies, and other
properties of power generation. For the financial analysis, we can specify variables, fixed costs and revenues. Additionally, the water quality, we can specify pollutants, loadings and at the end of the modelling to obtain more
results of the analysis. The last capability
is the ability of linking the two other
models and software. One of these important model is the groundwater flow model, which is called MODFLOW. The mode flow is
specialized for modeling, monitoring, and simulation
the groundwater aquifer. It's another important software that can be linked to
the whip is called leap. And using the software, the hydro power generation and the energy demands
can be obtained. And linking these two
programs are widely used for water energy
and exists studies. That is all of today's
lesson. Thanks for watching.
9. Conclusion and Highlights: Hello again. Here we came to the
end of this course to summarize some important
highlights of the week. First of all, we have is an integrated water
resources planning system. Secondly, this is
a GIS based that has graphical drag
and drop interface. Thirdly, WEP is a
model building tool which creates a variables
and modelling equations. The fourth is that the basic
methodology of the wave is the physical simulation
of demands and supplies. Another important
point is that the wave has a great scenario
management capabilities. And lastly, it can
dynamically be linked to submerge
sheets and other models. I hope that this course
has provided you with the knowledge you
need to get started with the weep and explain how powerful it is for better
water resources management. The next course, we will start modelling by taking
a real example. You'll find this
course valuable. You review will be
highly appreciated. And based on it, the next
course will be uploaded. Thanks for watching and
see you unexplored.