Water Simulation Packages (WSP)

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 see the introduction to the book.

Book contents:

• Water Resources Planning and Management: An Overview
• Water Resource Systems Modelling: Its Role in Planning and Management
• Modelling Methods for Evaluating Alternatives
• Optimization Methods
• Fuzzy Optimization
• Data-Based Models
• Concepts in Probability, Statistics and Stochastic Modelling
• Modelling Uncertainty
• Model Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis
• Performance Criteria
• River Basin Planning Models
• Water Quality Modelling and Prediction
• Urban Water Systems
• A Synopsis

If you decide that you want to download the files please drop me a note and I will send you the ftp information. I do not publish it here to avoid security risks.

Update: Eelco van Beek, one of the books authors updated me that they had to close the FTP-site because hackers got hold of it. The good news is that now the book can be ordered from the web-site of UNESCO-Publishing (20% off the regular price if you order by the end of April 2006 - €40). The book can be also downloaded, as one file or a set of smaller files, from Delft web-site.

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 health, stimulating its economic growth and prosperity, and quenching its thirst.

Modeling and analysis of water quality in distribution systems is vital in giving engineers a better understanding of the dynamics of water quality variations, the complex processes taking place in the distribution system environment, and the ways in which these factors impact system performance and safety. Comprehensive Handbook on Water Quality Analysis for Distribution Systems brings together the theoretical and practical information needed to conduct these crucial water quality simulations in pipes, at junctions, within reservoirs and tanks, and in complex networks. It provides a comprehensive overview of distribution system water quality modeling, from steady state equilibrium to more sophisticated dynamic analysis techniques and reaction kinetics, encompassing transformations that occur in the bulk water phase, at the pipe wall, and within storage facilities. Mastery of these analyses will lead not only to better understanding of the factors affecting water quality degradation in drinking water distribution systems, but to enhanced management, design, operation, protection, rehabilitation, and maintenance of those systems - resulting in safer water for everyone.

Available through the MWHSoft Bookstore.

This book announcement was received from Kevin Lansey:

Comprehensive Water Distribution Systems Analysis Handbook for Engineers and Planners
By Paul Boulos, Kevin Lansey and Bryan Karney

This comprehensive 584-page instructional textbook covers everything students, professional engineers, managers, modelers, health department officials, government agencies, consultants, researchers and GIS professionals need to know about how to reliably construct, load, and calibrate systems and use rigorous network models to optimize system planning, design, and complex operational activities. Topics range from in-depth coverage of basic network flow theory and dynamic water quality assessment to sophisticated transient flow and pressure calculations.

Available through the AWWA or from the MWHSoft Bookstore.

Frank Fisl, from Watercom Engineering, announced a book auction at the company web site:

We are presently auctioning off our remaining book inventory with prices starting as low as $1. You may place your bids before the auction ends on July 19. The books are sorted by category, i.e. General Sciences, Geology, Hydraulics, Hydrology, Pollution Control, Technology and Water Management.

For more information see the auction page.

From Haestad Press’ online books:

Advanced Water Distribution Modeling and Management builds on Haestad Press’ best-selling Water Distribution Modeling book. Addressing the modeling process from data collection to application, Advanced Water Distribution Modeling & Management includes all the material from the best-selling Water Distribution Modeling book plus many additional topics.

See the book online here.

See it on Amazon

Published by the World Health Organization (WHO):

Safe Piped Water addresses the factors affecting the presence and growth of micro-organisms in piped networks as well as the practices of water supply organisations that can directly or indirectly influence their presence and growth. The book shows that there are often public health reasons for adopting a more proactive approach to many of the traditional practices used in designing, operating and maintaining distribution networks, and to modifying the composition of the water that is fed into those networks.

Specific topics covered include:

• The microbiology of piped distribution systems and public health
• Composition of treated waters to minimize potential for microbiological changes
• Design and operation of distribution networks
• Planned maintenance and survey of distribution systems
• Precautions during construction and repairs
• Small animals in drinking water distribution systems
• Risk management for distribution systems

The information and conclusions contained in Safe Drinking Water are intended for policy makers and those responsible for formulating ‘Water Safety Plans’ for the supply of drinking-water. The book is also highly relevant to engineers and scientists who are responsible for water supply planning, operations and monitoring.

Full document and more information are available at the WHO web site.

“Water Supply Systems Security” by Larry Mays (editor) is actually a collection of articles covering a wide area of the security issue. This book deals with vulnerability assessment, cyber threats, early warning systems, security hardware, reliability, remote monitoring and more. About half of the 18 chapters in the book were written by people from the academia while the other by engineers and private consultants. This makes the book a nice blend between theory and practice.

Two chapters were of special interest. The first, “Cyber Threats and IT/SCADA Systems Vulnerability”, gives an overview of water utilities computer systems and their vulnerability, typical attack scenarios and methods for mitigating such attacks. The second, “Reconstruction Historical Contamination Events”, describes historical events and the way these events were modeled.

For more information see this book’s listing at Amazon.com