Ordering priorities allow users in Source to specify how shortfalls are prioritised between different demands in Source. Previously, Source tried to shortfall all demands equally within the model, this functionality provides a solution to address situations encountered in water resource models such as the following:
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The current behaviour for sharing shortfalls in Source is maintained as the default behaviour (distribute shortfalls equally). This is reflected as all nodes receiving a priority of 1 initially in the priority table.
Priorities are assigned in levels of 0 to n, with the lower n level having the highest priority
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Scenario | Allow Order | Extract Water | Notes |
1 | True | True | Standard case |
2 | True | False | Just restrict the extraction in the flow phase |
3 | False | True | Water will be extracted independently of the priorities |
4 | False | False | Nothing occurs |
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