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Flood Games

Flood Games

The importance of games in understanding the complex dynamic processes of water and the stakeholders' demands is increasing.

If you want to know more about the importance of game theory in water management then follow the link: http://www.km.ihe.nl/game/

Shishir Koirala from Nepal , a participant of UNESCO-IHE's Masters course in hydroinformatics has prepared a Water Allocation Game as part of his MSc theis. This game can be played by two players (via Internet). You can chose either to be David (who wants more water for his crop fields) or Peter (who wants more water to run his Flourmill.

Click the link to play: http://www.km.ihe.nl/game/Allocation.html

Andreja Jonoski of UNESCO-IHE developed Aquavoice primarily as a multi-player role play game and can be played over the Internet. Aquavoice has a fact engine component, a judgment engine component and some facilities for negotiation and collaboration. It has been developed for a hypothetical case study, which deals with the problems of lowering groundwater tables due to increased abstractions of groundwater for water supply. More details can be found in Hydroinformatics as Sociotechnology: Promoting Individual Stakeholder Participation by Using Network Distributed Decision Support Systems by Andreja Jonoski, Swets & Zeitlinger B.V. Lisse, the Netherlands .

SPLASH is a game (not from UNESCO-IHE) for simulating integrated water management of river basins.

You play the game in the role of water resources manager that has to deal with a number of conflicting issues in the river basin (Source: http://www.serc.nl/play2learn/)