Module SimPrio, priority simulation of water allocation

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First you must carry out the conceptual scheme of the basin to model (Figure 1); that is built adding one to one the elements (contributions, reservoirs, uses, conductions, aquifer, etc.) and introducing their physical and operative characteristics in the Decision Support System  H2O.

This scheme is a simplified representation of the basin or Water Resources Systems (WRS) to study, and that must preserve the most outstanding relationships among the elements of the basin.

The model complexity and its capacity of representing the reality must are balanced: an excessively simple model will give results very far from the reality, without allowing to reproduce the complexity of the problem; while an excessively detailed model will be more complex of using,  will required more time of calculation and bigger quantity of data to run it.

A very important characteristic of the elements is the priority (of supply) that it is used when there is not enough water for all the elements, as allotment approach.

When executing the program, the model SimPrio optimize, for every month, a objective function (FO) linear.  The result determine the simulate assignment (or supply) to the different elements of the WRS.

After the execution, the output files with the optimum values of the variables and the guarantees indicators can be seen (and chart) with the DSS H2O or import with Excel or another similar program.