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..
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..
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,..
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..
January 23, 2024
You get a pressure reading of 62 psi. What does that mean? Is it:
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..
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..
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..
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..
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..