Water resources are under growing pressure globally. Sustainable water management requires an understanding of how much water is available, where it is stored and used, and how future developments may impact availability. Understanding this requires investment in data, models, and experts. These investments are labour intensive, with considerable effort spent in three main areas: collecting and transforming data; building, calibrating, running and maintaining models; and developing required reports and visualisations. We present Basin Futures, a cloud-based product developed to lower this initial effort by providing pre-integrated data; a template model structure that makes some simplifying assumptions for speed; easy setup of new scenarios; a scalable data processing and simulation architecture; and delivery through a web browser. The case studies and results presented show the product is quick to learn, fast in execution, and provides an easy way to explore water resource development scenarios for river basin management and planning.

全球水资源压力越来越大。可持续的水管理要求了解可用的水量，存储和使用的位置以及未来的发展将如何影响可用量。理解这一点需要对数据，模型和专家进行投资。这些投资是劳动密集型的，在以下三个主要领域投入了大量精力：收集和转换数据；以及 建立，校准，运行和维护模型；并开发所需的报告和可视化效果。我们介绍了Basin Futures，这是一种基于云的产品，旨在通过提供预先集成的数据来减少这种最初的努力。模板模型结构，对速度做了一些简化的假设；轻松设置新方案；可扩展的数据处理和仿真架构；并通过网络浏览器进行投放。