This is my first time in my life to participate this exciting competition. I am so lucky to have a chance to work with my two unbelievably amazing teammates - Nick Grabon, and Sunil Upadhyay – two great “physicists”.
From them, I learned a lot of things: Nick, who shows me how to critically construct the model; Sunil, who makes everything well-organized. Thank you,all!
Problem
PROBLEM B: Water, Water, Everywhere
Fresh water is the limiting constraint for development in much of the world. Build a mathematical model for determining an effective, feasible, and cost-efficient water strategy for 2013 to meet the projected water needs of [pick one country from the list below] in 2025, and identify the best water strategy. In particular, your mathematical model must address storage and movement; de-salinization; and conservation. If possible, use your model to discuss the economic, physical, and environmental implications of your strategy. Provide a non-technical position paper to governmental leadership outlining your approach, its feasibility and costs, and why it is the “best water strategy choice.”
Countries: United States, China, Russia, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia
During this contest, I am mainly in charge of the model implementation and simulation interpretation, including data visualization, and data interpretation.
Please email me if you are interested in the actual program implementation. I used Python to do all this fancy stuff.
You can download our paper here