Use Cases

Arbitrating a dry-season shortage across municipal, agricultural, and industrial demand

Decision support for allocating scarce basin water across competing sectors during drought conditions

Aerial view of a river basin feeding irrigation canals toward farmland with a city on the horizon

USE CASE / WATER

Published product metrics

Sector allocation latency

< 10 s

Resource conservation

+15%

Demand forecast horizon

48 h

These figures match the published metrics on the Predictim WIOP product page — this walkthrough is a composite scenario, not a specific engagement.

The challenge

Decision support for allocating scarce basin water across competing sectors during drought conditions

Segment: River-basin water allocation

Basin managers typically track reservoir levels, off-take points, and seasonal demand in spreadsheets built for a normal year, not a shortage. When a dry season cuts expected inflow, there's no systematic way to weigh ecological flow minimums against competing municipal, agricultural, and industrial demand, or to see the consequence of a reservoir release decision before making it. Allocation calls end up made reactively, sector by sector, rather than as one balanced plan.

The approach

How the deployment was structured

One map of the basin

Predictim WIOP puts river basins, aquifers, reservoirs, and every sector off-take point on a single interactive map, replacing scattered spreadsheets with one live picture of availability.

Demand forecast ahead of the decision

A 48-hour demand forecast across irrigation, industrial, and urban consumption — adjusted for weather — gives managers lead time instead of reacting to yesterday's numbers.

Shortage arbitrage, not fixed schedules

Under scarcity, allocation plans are computed to balance ecological flow minimums against social and economic priority, rather than falling back on a normal-year schedule that no longer fits.

Reservoir and pump orchestration

Release and pump schedules are coordinated to protect safety-stock volumes while minimising electricity cost under dynamic tariffs.

What changed

The value shows up specifically when the normal-year schedule stops working: instead of adjudicating each sector's request in isolation, a basin authority can see the full-basin trade-off and commit to one allocation plan with a forecast horizon ahead of it.

Product used