Water Resources Research Act Program

Details for Project ID CA_2025_PESANTEZ

Managing Peak Water Demand in Water Distribution Systems

Institute: California
Year Established: 2024 Start Date: 2024-09-01 End Date: 2025-08-31
Total Federal Funds: $9,814 Total Non-Federal Funds: $25,602

Principal Investigators: Jorge Pesantez

Project Summary: This research simulates a persuasive game to encourage cooperation and competition among water customers around demand-shifting. This research creates and models a leaderboard using an agent-based modeling approach.