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WE3 Lab

Water System Planning

Software Packages

Plots showing frequency, intensity, and duration of droughts

FIND (Frequency, INtensity Duration)

Drought Generator

FIND supports precipitation and streamflow synthetic time series generation.

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Overview of the DRIPP tool

DRIPP

Drought Resistant Interscale Portfolio Planning

DRIPP is a generalizable multi-scale framework for optimizing dynamic planning strategies of long-term infrastructure deployment and short-term drought response.

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Map of optimal wastewater-derived fertilizer locations in sub-Saharan Africa

Wastewater-derived Fertilizers

Prioritizing Deployment of

A multicriteria suitability index to describe viability of wastewater-derived fertilizer with district-scale resolution that incorporates population density, soil conditions, sanitation levels, and prices. 

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Datasets

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Secure American Water Supplies

Screening Alternative Water Sources to

A comprehensive, generalizable, and transparent tool for alternative water supply screening in the United States.

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Planning-related Publications

FIND

  • Zaniolo, M., Fletcher, S., & Mauter, M. (2024). FIND: A Synthetic weather generator to control drought Frequency, Intensity, and Duration. Environmental Modelling & Software, 172, 105927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105927 

DRIPP

  • Zaniolo, M., Fletcher, S., & Mauter, M. S. (2023). Multi-scale planning model for robust urban drought response. Environmental Research Letters, 18(5), 054014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acceb5
  • Zaniolo, M., Fletcher, S., & Mauter, M. S. (2024). Quantifying the value of technology and policy innovation in water resource portfolios. Earth's Future, 12(5), e2023EF004167. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF004167 

Wastewater-based Fertilizer

  • Wong, C. A., Lobell, D. B., & Mauter, M. S. (2023). Multicriteria Suitability Index for Prioritizing Early-Stage Deployments of Wastewater-Derived Fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(45), 17588-17597. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c05435
  • Wong, C., Lobell, D. B., & Mauter, M. (2023, December). Urine the Right Place: Prioritizing Deployments of Wastewater-derived Fertilizers in sub-Saharan Africa. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2023, pp. GC12C-04). https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1258145

Citations for Software and Datasets

SAWS

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