We regularly seek feedback from our users on how we’re doing. In a recent survey, we received excellent scores across the board on our OpenFlows products like OpenFlows Water and OpenFlows Sewer. One individual noted it would be great if Bentley were to “Provide additional training, demos, and webinars.”
What exactly do you get with a 2 ½ inch hydrant outlet? It depends a lot on where you are and when the hydrants were manufactured. There are numerous standard sizes, so you need to be careful, especially if you work on old water systems in the Northeast US.
In those days, a junior engineer could spend an entire day calculating flows and pressures in a pipe network. At the end of the day, he could show it to his supervisor who would say, “I thought we were going to put a 12-inch pipe over there?” The engineer would look at his boss, look at his day’s work, look at his boss, look at his work again, quietly deposit his work into the trash, and make the required adjustment.
The story of the history of water distribution system analysis (WDSA) is pretty fascinating, at least to me. There have been a large number of contributors to where we are today in water distribution modeling.
We are a water innovation explosion. When planning your water distribution strategy, it should be easy. We recommend starting with digital twin modeling.
It isn’t necessary to explain that customers expect safe, reliable, and affordable water, that distribution systems are a critical link in providing service, that buried and aging infrastructure is a challenge to manage, and that many utilities in the US struggle due to lack of enough funding. These issues are reviewed continually by the water industry to assess what should be done.
with advances in SCADA and digital twins, we are doing a much better job collecting data on pump performance. But what is the best metric for judging pump efficiency?
TSA – Tecnologia em Saneamento Ambiental (which translates to Technology in Environmental Sanitation in English) has a passion for the betterment of the communities they serve. TSA’s headquarters are in Porto Alegre, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, but they also work on projects that support cities across the southernmost part of the state. This family-owned business focuses on designing resilient and efficient water and wastewater networks. Engineers José Vilmar Viegas and Matheus Viegas —a father-son team—and a handful of other employees work hard to bring a better quality of life to underserved communities. Their goal is to design water infrastructure that will grant access to water and sanitation services and improve water networks. These projects are key to social and economic development and that is what drives José Vilmar and Mathues to do this work. Connected Data Brings Real-World Impact In Brazil, the most vulnerable communities lack access to water and sanitation systems. Many people live along rivers where raw sewage is dumped and are exposed to it daily. They also deal with intermittent water services that do not meet potability standards. TSA knows that by designing reliable, effective, and efficient sustainable sewage networks, they
Just as there are classics in literature like Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, there are classic works in water and wastewater.
There is no doubt about it, the world is going digital, and the water industry is going along with it. I’m on board with the trend as it is generally making our lives a little better.