The nofdp IDSS (Nature Oriented Flood Damage Prevention, Information and Decision Support System) is an open source application for the interactive development of flood risk strategies and 1D hydrodynamic flood simulation. Additionalֲ modules for ecological and spatial analysis, multi criteria evaluation, …
Author: Elad Salomons
ESRI’s Resource Center for Water Utilities Management
ESRI web site includes a section named The Resource Center for Water Utilities Management: The web site is for the ArcGIS water, wastewater, and stormwater utility community. It provides useful templates and best practice information enabling you to implement ArcGIS …
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EPANet and Matlab
A visitor that came to this blog from Demetriosֲ Eliades’sֲ web site reminded me of the EPANet and Matlab issue. About 3 years ago I was busy preparing for the Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN). A few people …
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A Step-by-Step Guide to EPANET 2.0 Simulations
Robert E. Pitt is a Professor at the University of Alabama. For his Urban Water Systems and Water Resources Engineering courses he wrote a Step-by-Step Guide to EPANET 2.0 Simulations. The guide starts with creating a new project, adding elements, …
Poisoned Waters – video
From FrontLine: More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, iconic American waterways like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are in perilous condition and facing new sources of contamination. With polluted runoff still flowing in from industry, agriculture …
Who owns the rain or is it illegal to harvest rainwater?
The Los-Angeles Times has a interesting write up about water rights in Colorado: Every time it rains here, Kris Holstrom knowingly breaks the law. Holstrom’s violation is the fancifully painted 55-gallon buckets underneath the gutters of her farmhouse on a …
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BackSense – contamination source detection software
BackSense is new methodology to identify the possible sources location and time frame of a contamination that may cause the trigger of a set of water quality sensors that are part of an Early Contamination Warning System (ECWS). The basic …
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Free online Water Management Summit – A full day of interactive webcasts
A free online water management summit will be held on April 21st 2009, starting on 7pm: This summit features presentations by scientists, academics, and business leaders addressing the increasingly important issue of water management. For businesses, efficiency will cut costs …
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Flammable Water
Some time ago a heard a talk by a safety specialist who recommended not to shower when an electric water heater is turned on. Well, so folks over at Ft. Lupton, Colo. are showering with the lights off. Its for …
Flow Calc – Open Channel Flow hydraulic calculations
Flow Calc is a commercialֲ ֲ computer software program designed to calculate common Open Channel Flow hydraulic characteristics using only the methods of the Manning’s Equation for regular and irregular channel geometries for steady uniform flow including circular and elliptical pipes. …
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