According to a survey by Xylem American say that “water is the most important service they receive, ahead of electricity, heat, the Internet and cell phones. Among businesses, it ranks second only to electricity. ” Water has for too long been absent from the national …
Author: Elad Salomons
Guest posts – invitation to write on this blog
Hi all, From time to time people send great information to share with the readers of this blog. I have decided to step it up a little and give a try to guest posts. Your content may reach hundreds of reader …
Water is responsible for 12.6% of US energy use
According to a research from the University of Texas titled “Evaluating the energy consumed for water use in the United States“, water is responsible for 12.6% of US energy use: From the abstract: This letter consists of a first-order analysis …
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Matlab wrappers for EPANet and EPANet-MSX
Following the release of the EPANET-RTX real time extension for the EPANET toolkit, Sam Hatchett posted some Matlab wrappers and scripts for various EPANET applications, including MSX (original code by Jim Uber). This release is another open source project under the Open Water …
EPANET-RTX real time extension for the EPANET toolkit
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Homeland Security Research Center announces the open source project for EPANET-RTX. What is EPANET-RTX? RTX (the real-time extension) is the first open-source library to extend the base EPANET hydraulic and water quality simulation functionality …
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WaterNetGen – EPANET extension – pipe sizing
Update: following a comment by Joaquim Sousa, one of the developers of WaterNetGen, I have updated the post since it seems I made a mistake and didn’t use the right settings for the SA method – sorry. A few months …
The Battle of the Water Networks (BWN-II)
During the 14th Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference (WDSA 2012), a new Battle of the Water Networks will be held: The Battle of the Water Networks (BWN-II) is the fourth in a series of “Battle Competitions” dating back to the “Battle of …
Stated NRW (Non-Revenue Water) Rates in Urban Networks
A few months ago, the SWAN forum published a list of stated NRW (Non-Revenue Water) rates in urban networks (pdf file). According to this list there are major cities with non-revenue water rate higher than 30%: Adana Turkey 69.0% Bacolod Philippines …
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How to open EPANet’s help file in Windows 7
Windows 10 user see this post: How to open EPANET’s help file on Windows 10? I get this question from time to time from people who are unable to open the EPANet help file in Windows 7. Actually, the help file …
EDS Challenge: Overview and Some Preliminary Results
I have been participating in the EPA’s Event Detection System Challenge (see phase III) held last year with a tool I developed named optiEDS. During the Water Security Congress earlier this month in Nashville, Katie Umberg of the EPA presented …
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