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 same time during breaks in the game.
via: Pat’s Papers
Synchronized toilet flushing
Excel to EPANet
Oliver Diaz sent me a link to an Excel addon he wrote to convert Excel data to the INP file of EPANet. In addition, it can export excel data to AutoCAD by generating a dxf file. Points with coordinates X, Y, Z from an excel sheet can be exported to a dxf file as points, [...]
EPANet and Matlab
A visitor that came to this blog from Demetrios Eliades’s web site reminded me of the EPANet and Matlab issue. About 3 years ago I was busy preparing for the Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN). A few people helped me test and debug the software utilities for the battle. One of them was Philip Jonkergouw from [...]
Excel to EPANet
Oliver Diaz sent me a link to an Excel addon he wrote to convert Excel data to the INP file of EPANet. In addition, it can export excel data to AutoCAD by generating a dxf file. Points with coordinates X, Y, Z from an excel sheet can be exported to a dxf file as points, [...]
nofdp IDSS
The nofdp IDSS (Nature Oriented Flood Damage Prevention, Information and Decision Support System) is an open source application for the interactive development of flood risk strategies and 1D hydrodynamic flood simulation. Additional modules for ecological and spatial analysis, multi criteria evaluation, flood risk maps, flood frequency, flood duration and communication are included.
watch video, download source code.
xpswmm
XPSWMM by xpsoftwareis said to be complete software package for modeling stormwater and wastewater flows and pollutants. It may be used by scientists, engineers and resource and asset managers to simulate natural rainfall-runoff processes and the performance of engineered systems that manage our water resources.
xpswmm is used to develop link-node and spatially distributed models that are applied to [...]
ESRI’s Resource Center for Water Utilities Management
ESRI web site includes a section named The Resource Center for Water Utilities Management:
The web site is for the ArcGIS water, wastewater, and stormwater utility community. It provides useful templates and best practice information enabling you to implement ArcGIS to manage your water utility information, perform your daily operations, and support your long term planning.
An [...]
Book: Water Resources Systems Planning and Management
This new book by Daniel P. Loucks and Eelco van Beek (UNESCO PUBLISHING) will be out soon at your near by store. In the meanwhile it can be downloaded free from Delft Hydraulics ftp.
The size of the file is about 400MB so before you go ahead with the download, look at this file here to [...]
Comprehensive Handbook on Water Quality Analysis for Distribution Systems
New book from MWH Soft: Comprehensive Handbook on Water Quality Analysis for Distribution Systems By Kevin E. Lansey and Paul F. Boulos.
Safe drinking water is essential to life. While effective water treatment is imperative, the distribution system itself represents the final barrier in safeguarding water quality and plays a critical role in protecting a nation’s [...]
Bluebox Event Detection System – under the hood
In the past year I have seen a few press releases by WhiteWater Security (WWS) regarding their WaterWall product:
WaterWall™ is a revolutionary end-to-end water security management system, designed to give decision-makers and water security operators an unprecedented level of decision-making confidence in the event of a water crisis. From prevention and detection to intelligent response [...]
Tap water pollution in north China
More and more reports regarding the tap water pollution in north china are showing up. It is reported that thousands are sicking medical help.
Water supply to Chifeng’s new city centre, a 17-square km area with 58,000 people, was contaminated by an overflow of rainwater last week and test results showed an excessively high count of [...]