Author: Elad Salomons

During the WDSA2010 conference, held in Tucson AZ, Lew Rossman gave a sneak peek into the future version of EPANet. It might be called 2.1 or 3.0 and it scheduled to be released probably next year. This will be the last …

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A colleague wanted to convert an EPANet file to an AutoCAD drawing. After having a few issues with the DXF2EPAutility he found anothe program for this task – EPACAD. EPACAD, by the ITAresearch group over at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, is a …

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optiEDS – online, real time, event detection system for water networks. Coming soon…

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When working with hydraulic models, especially of large networks, the user often face a problem when he wants to compare two versions on the model to see what changes were made. The GeoAdvice Model Comparator by GEOAdviceֲ aims to assist in …

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ֲ From maplecroft: A new report evaluating the water security of 165 countries has rated the supply of clean, fresh water to the societies and businesses of 10 nations at “extreme risk.” I don’t have access to the full report so …

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WaterIng is a software research program of the Multidisciplinary Group of Fluid Modelling in Valencia (GMMF):ֲ WaterIng is a software package for water distribution system design and analysis. It offers a multi-objective evolutionary optimization engine based on distributed artificial intelligence …

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During the summer of 2009 a large number of water pipe breaks occurred in Los Angeles. Apparently,ֲ  there were 101 blowouts in the summer of 2009 (July, August and September) compared to 42 in 2008, 49 in 2007 and 48 …

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Tim Hirrel sent me his new product release info for Tdhnet: 3 new hydraulic network modeling products have been released and are now available for download. These products are the latest releases in the Tdhnet line of hydraulic network software …

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Online water demand data, published by EPCOR, show that Canadians have invented a new kind of sport – synchronized toilet flushing. It seems that all the TV viewer of the Olympic gold medal hockey game flushed their toilet at the …

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Following the Battle of the Water Networks (BWN) in 1985 and more recently the Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN) I’m happy to announce the Battle of the Water Calibration Networks (BWCN): The BWCN calls for teams/individuals from academia, …

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