Water Quality and Living at the Bottom of a Bag

In general, water quality tends to deteriorate with water age as disinfectant residual decreases, microbial activity increases, and disinfectant by-products...

We Heard You— Check Out the OpenFlows WaterGEMS Updated Control Editor

How Big is a 6-inch Pipe?

Read Tom Walski’s blog to learn about inner, outer, and nominal pipe diameter and the differences these pipe diameters have...

Garbage In, Garbage Out

The problem was that the people who developed the data underlying the GIS/CAD (I’ll call it GIS in this blog)...

A Fire Too Close

While this story is fictional, it’s inspired by real events. Cases like this can, have, and will happen. The sound...

The Case of the Missing Pump Energy Budget

In This Story Inefficient pumps silently steal from utility budgets  Data reveals clues that pumps won’t confess  Digital tools turn waste into...

OpenFlows CivilStorm: Revolutionizing Road Design with Advanced Hydraulic Analysis

In the ever-evolving world of road infrastructure design, excellence extends far beyond pavement quality and geometric precision. A crucial, often...

System Head Curves in Closed Systems

An important step in selecting pumps is developing the system head curve, which gives the head needed to move various...

Optimal but Stupid

If you pick up most water-related journals these days, it seems as if half the papers are devoted to applying...

Death to Flow Control Valves

Flow control valve (FCV) elements are the most abused elements in WaterGEMS/WaterCAD. If I had my way, I would eliminate...

Lessons From Urban Wildfires: A Bentley Water Expert On Preparing For What’s Next

When Tom Walski was growing up in northeast Pennsylvania, air pollution and contaminated water were evident all around. “It was a...

No Matter What You Call It, Planning sets the Foundation for Success

Before any water utility starts working on detailed plans and specifications―which I’ll refer to as “Design” in this blog―for water...