Elad Salomons
The Battle of the Water Calibration Networks (BWCN)
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, consulting firms, and utilities to propose a calibration methodology and apply it to a real water [...]
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, [...]
Water pressure at my home connection
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American colleague regarding the maximum water pressure at home connections. He was amazed to hear that the water pressure at my house is about 9 bars. To show him I was not mistaken I connected a pressure gauge in my garden and took a few [...]
WDSA 2010 – first call for papers
The University of Arizona and the Technion are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis conference (WDSA 2010) to be held September 12-15, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona. (WDSA2010.org)
Milestone
Date
First Call for Papers
November 1, 2009
Second Call for Papers
December 1, 2009
Abstracts Due
February 1, 2010
Decision on Abstracts
March 1, 2010
Full Papers Due
May 1, 2010
Preliminary WDSA2010 Program
June 1, [...]
A few quick links
The American Museum of Natural History in New-York has an exhibition called Water: H2O = Life.
The same museum show an animation of the story of the New-York water system.
Liquid Assets:
Liquid Assets, a ninety-minute documentary, tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: water, wastewater, and stormwater. These systems — some in the ground for more than [...]
Two large deals in the water simulation software world
In the past two week two large deals were made in the water simulation software market. The first one is the joining of MWH Soft and Wallingford Software:
MWH Soft, based in Broomfield, Colorado, U.S. and Wallingford Software, based in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K. are both leading providers of hydraulic modeling software to water and wastewater [...]
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 [...]
Make water not war
Stanley Weiss in an editorial in the New York Times wonders if the next war in the Middel East will be over water and not land? He is one of the believers that the water crisis in the Middle Ease can be solved with a large carrier bring water from Turkey to the region.
Weiss [...]
The Water Channel TV
The Water Channel TV is a dedicated web-based video channel on water. It caters to a large audience, making a large amount of video material available in support of many initiatives.
From the wb site:
TheWaterChannel brings together several strands: insights in today’s water challenges, multimedia expertise and a passion for better water management and better water services for [...]