Developed by The Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) in Boulder, Colorado, in collaboration with the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, RiverWare® is a mature modeling environment applicable to detailed studies in operation policy, optimization of power, water accounting, and operational decision making in short- or long-term timeframes. With many built-in features and customizable functionality, RiverWare® is used to model, analyze, forecast, and operate complex river and reservoir systems and the effects of potential water regulations. RiverWare® has three modes of operation, basic simulation, rule-based simulation, and optimization, and offers many utilities for development, calibration, and analysis, including data management interfacing, plotting, and solution tracking.

Riverside Technology, inc. (RTi) has expertise in RiverWare® applications for diverse river and reservoir systems, and has developed procedures and tools to pre-process and format data imported into RiverWare®. One of the largest and most complex RiverWare® applications was developed by RTi for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to assess the impact of various reservoir operating policies at critical locations. RTi's RiverWare® projects also include assisting water managers with the interpretation of model results, and with the implementation of operating policies based on analyses using specifically designed post-processing solutions.

Partial system from RiverWare® implementation for TVA