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EPANET-RTX real time extension for the EPANET toolkit

The United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Homeland Security Research Center announces the open source project for EPANET-RTX.  What is EPANET-RTX? RTX (the real-time extension) is the first open-source library to extend the base EPANET hydraulic and water quality simulation functionality

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WaterNetGen – EPANET extension – pipe sizing

Update: following a comment by Joaquim Sousa, one of the developers of WaterNetGen, I have updated the post since it seems I made a mistake and didn’t use the right settings for the SA method – sorry. A few months

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The Battle of the Water Networks (BWN-II)

During the 14th Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference (WDSA 2012), a new Battle of the Water Networks will be held: The Battle of the Water Networks (BWN-II) is the fourth in a series of “Battle Competitions” dating back to the “Battle of

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Stated NRW (Non-Revenue Water) Rates in Urban Networks

A few months ago, the SWAN forum published a list of stated NRW (Non-Revenue Water) rates in urban networks (pdf file). According to this list there are major cities with non-revenue water rate higher than 30%:  Adana Turkey 69.0% Bacolod Philippines

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How to open EPANet’s help file in Windows 7

I get this question from time to time from people who are unable to open the EPANet help file in Windows 7. Actually, the help file may not open also on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2.

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Identify the datasets contest – the results

About a month I asked my readers to identify data-sets of digital and analog inputs of two sensors I connected to an iobridge  IO-204 Monitor and Control Module. I offered a prize of 100$ to the first correct answer. I got a few

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100$ identify the datasets contest

THE CONTEST IS OVER – resualts are here Some time ago I reported the water pressure at my house connection. It was around 9 bars! Ever since I was looking for a way to monitor the water pressure and also

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EPANet Plus – improved map export to DXF

Baoyu Zhuang added a few functions to the EPANet GUI to allow more options while exporting a map to the DXF format. The USEPA version of EPANet allows the user to export a map to DXF using the File->Export->Map form:

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What is in the picture?

What do you see? The answer, posted on 27-01-2011 is at the end of the post A free copy of EPANet will be awarded to everyone who submits an answer Have you seen the pictures of the dry Niagara Falls? Update 15/01/2011:

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The future of EPANet

EPANet 3 is due sometime next year and it will probably be the last version supported by the US EPA. Last year, a proposal was made at the 2009 EWRI conference in Kansas City to establish an Open Source Project for EPANet.

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