History and Acknowledgements

History

WEAP was created in 1988, with the aim to be a flexible, integrated, and transparent planning tool for evaluating the sustainability of current water demand and supply patterns and exploring alternative long-range scenarios.

The first major application of WEAP was in the Aral Sea region in 1989 with the sponsorship of the newly formed Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). SEI continued to support the development of WEAP through its US Center which was established in 1989 and hosted by the Tellus Institute until 2006.

Over the years WEAP has been applied in many countries and river basins. The software has been transferred to water planners throughout the world.

Credits

The development and distribution of the WEAP software is managed by Jack Sieber of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

WEAP was conceived by Paul Raskin, President of Tellus Institute, and developed under his supervision until 2001.

Many have contributed to the development and application of WEAP since its inception.

Funding

Many organizations have generously contributed major funding for the development of WEAP. We gratefully acknowledge:

And to the many users of WEAP who have contributed to WEAP development by purchasing WEAP licenses.

Translation

Language translations have been generously contributed by:

• Albanian: Eng. Dritan Gorica
• Amharic: Mr. Alemayehu Zewdie Asrat
• Arabic: Dr. Rafik Al-Sakkaf, Wael Seif, Dr. Khalid Hassan Ali Siddig, Dr. Rani Fouad, Eng. Mahmoud Ghajiah, Dr. Abbas Al-Omari
• Bengali: Mr. Pradip Sengupta
• Chinese: Ms. jiao wang, Wendi Jiang, Ms. Yang Yang, Dr. Guoyi Han, Ms. Ying Li, Mr. Changbin Li, Mr. Daohan Huang, Mr. Jianing Zhao
• Dutch: Ellen Hermans, Dr. Peter Droogers
• Farsi: Dr. Hossein Babazadeh, Dr. Mehdi Mirzaee, Dr. Mahmood Sadat Noori, Mr. Behzad Sharif, Eng. Mina Gholizadeh, Mr. Behzad Jamali, Mr. Alireza Rezaei, Mr. Seyed Siavash Bassam
• French: Ms. Sarah Wingfield, Ms. Ehssan Meknassi, Mr. Keita Mamady Kobélé, Mr. Sylvain Hermon, Ms. Anne Hereford, Mrs. Doreen Brown Salazar, Ms. Stephanie Galaitsi
• German: Mr. Markus Huber
• Greek: Miss Paraskevi Karka, Dr. Spyros Michas
• Hindi: Mr. Ajay Bhave
• Indonesian: Mrs. Anna Ida Sunaryo, Mr. Yulianto Suteja
• Italian: Eng. Stefano Fatone, Ms. Floriana Maria Renna, Ms. Livia Peiser
• Khmer (Cambodian): Mr. MONG Marith, Ms. Mariny Chheang
• Korean: Dr. Si-Jung CHOI, Dong-Ryul Lee
• Lithuanian: Dr. Edvinas Stonevicius
• Malagasy: Ms. RAKOTONDRABE felaniaina
• Malaysian: Dr. Mohd Aminur Rashid Mohd Amiruddin Arumugam
• Myanmar: Mr. Zaw Win Aung
• Nepali: Eng. Sanjeeb Rajbhandari
• Portuguese: Miss Vanda Lira, Dr. Joy Ingrid Themen, Dr. Lineu Rodrigues, Prof. Luciano Fleischfresser, Eng. Kamila Jessie Sammarro Silva, Prof. Guilherme Marques, Eng. Camilla Hellen Peixoto de Lima, Miss Marcela Palhares
• Romanian: Eng. Ramona Maria Rusu
• Russian: Mrs. Denis Sorokin, Prof. Sobir Navruzov, Andre Savitsky
• Spanish: Mr. Julio Sandoval, Mrs. Gladis Celmi, Dr. Marisa Escobar, Eng. Angelica Maria Moncada Aguirre, Sebastian Vicuna, Ms. Stephanie Galaitsi, Ms. Anne Hereford, Ms. Laura Forni, Mr. Ramiro Vega
• Swedish: Dr. Louise Karlberg
• Thai: Mr. Thumapong Naowvabutra, Dr. Chayanis Krittasudthacheewa, Miss Orn-uma Polpanich, Dr. Yutthana Phankamolsil
• Turkish: Ms. Hasret Sahin, Dr. Baris Yilmaz, Dr. Cem Polat Cetinkaya, Dr. Gokhan Cuceloglu, Ms. Sura Atmaca
• Urdu: Dr. Muhammad Tousif Bhatti, Mr. Syed Mubbashir Muneer Shah
• Vietnamese: Mr. NGUYEN NGOC HA, Mr. Toan Pham Phuoc, Dr. Phan Thi Thanh Hang, Eng. Cam Linh Lai, Ms. Nguyen Thuy Dung, Mr. Minh Nguyen Duc, Ms. Thuy Thuy, Ms. Ha Thi Thu Nguyen