Explore environmental and development research with SEI’s projects and tools.
The Water Evaluation and Planning tool (WEAP) provides a comprehensive, flexible and user-friendly framework for policy analysis in water resources planning.
Our work aims to transform current decision making around access to water, the greatest risk to global prosperity, and addressing the SDGs.
SEI is designing water allocation models that explicitly represent every water right and assess the impact of in-stream flow requirements on water users.
SEI researchers work throughout California to model complex water systems and explore sustainable management options.
SEI is working with USAID to strengthen water security and foster cooperation among five countries in Central Asia.
SEI is working with the Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ) to help identify robust adaptation options for the water supply system in Quito, Ecuador.
A team led by SEI worked with water managers in California's Yolo County to prepare for implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).