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The Great Drinking Water Rip-Off

March 12, 2024

No, I’m not talking about the water that your utility provides to your house through your facet (in addition to providing you with fire protection in..

2D or not 2D–Choosing the Best Type of Simulation in OpenFlows

March 1, 2024

We have made significant improvements to OpenFlows. The introduction of the new 2D solver allows for a more comprehensive analysis of urban flooding..

Grandpa, what was it like in the early days of modeling?

February 28, 2024

One of my favorite topics is the history of modeling. I talk about it whenever I can find someone who is willing to listen. Bentley’s podcast series,..

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Before There Was SCADA

February 9, 2024

Pretty much every water and wastewater system these days of any size has a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system. We just take them..

Is Your Pressure Data Any Good?

January 23, 2024

You get a pressure reading of 62 psi. What does that mean? Is it:

New Water Distribution Model Calibration Handbook Has the Answers

January 8, 2024

When I started working in water distribution system modeling, building a model, and getting it to run was so difficult and time-consuming that..

How to Conduct Pump Energy Studies

December 14, 2023

I’ve given quite a few presentations on saving energy in pumping. Recently, I’ve been working with Eric Dole from Garver on the chapter on pumping..

How Do You Decide Where to Put Isolation Valves? - Conclusion

November 30, 2023

I didn’t get much response to the question I posed in a recent blog about the best placement of isolation valves. Either readers thought the question..

The R Words – Reliability, Resilience, Redundancy, R…

November 13, 2023

We all know the meanings of the R words listed in the title of this blog (at least we think we do). In everyday speech, however, we use them somewhat..

How Do You Decide Where to Put Isolation Valves?

October 27, 2023

Last year, I wrote a blog on “How many valves are enough?” I’m following up on that now with a quick survey on how engineers decide on where to put..