A History of Water Distribution: Bentley’s Tom Walski takes you back in time to learn how water distribution technology has evolved to provide us with clean and sufficient water today. As published in Journal AWWA, Vol. 98, No. 3 (March …
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EPA Releases Tool to Help Small Drinking Water Systems
EPA has released a new tool for small water utilities trying to balance the demands for quality water with their financial ability to deliver. The tool is part of an overall program to protect public health, support small water systems …
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Optimizing Pumping Systems Article
With pumping systems accounting for about 20% of the world’s energy usage, a great potential for cost and energy savings exists within such systems. Unfortunately, pumping system design engineers work in an environment where budget and schedule constraints limit their …
Finding Direction for Your Distribution Flushing Program
An article by the Safe Drinking Water Trust: Distribution system flushing programs have been around for a long, long time. In a nutshell, these programs provide systems with an organized way to clean out the rust and other sediments that …
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Darwin Designer team won honorable mention for the ג€Humiesג€ Award
The Human-Competitive Awards, the ג€Humiesג€, are awarded to techniques of genetic and evolutionary computation that are competitive with the work of creative and inventive humans. The Darwin Designer team, from Haestad Methods, won an honorable mention this year for their …
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Battle Of The Sensors – Initial announcement
Here is a message from Dr. Avi Ostfeld: Dear Colleagues, On May 26, 2005 I have issued a call to this list on a “Battle of the Sensors” exercise as part of the planned Special Issue of the Journal of …
Implementing an Energy Management System for Distribution Pumping
Derceto, Inc. were one of the exhibitors at the AWWA Annual Conference (ACE05) in San Francisco in June. The company released an article titled: “Implementing an Energy Management System for Distribution Pumping“. Here are a few words taken from the …
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EPANET Toolkit adaption to GNU/Linux
Manuel Lֳ³pez-Ibֳ¡ֳ±ez, currently at the School of the Built Environment of Napier University in Edinburgh (UK), adapted the EPANET Toolkit version 2.00.10 to GNU/Linux. A number of new features were added: Calculation of pump switches Saves time of day (in …
Battle of the Sensors
Following the cal for the Special JWRPM Issue on Drinking Water Distribution Systems Security, Avi Ostfeld sent the information regarding the “Battle of the Sensors”: Dear Colleagues, Following my announcement of yesterday on a Special Issue of the Journal of …
Special JWRPM Issue on Drinking Water Distribution Systems Security
The following call was received form Dr. Avi Ostfeld: Dear Colleagues, Following the EWRI conference in Anchorage, Alaska, May 15-19, 2005, and the growing interest in water distribution systems security, a special issue of the Journal of Water Resources Planning …
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