Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its mark on the water industry, powering intelligent operations using machine learning to optimize resource use and operational budgets for organizations.
Water Talks
After much debate, delay, compromise, and – finally – voting, the US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) was passed. This $1.2 trillion act comes not a moment too soon. For years, organizations like ASCE have graded the US infrastructure as a ‘D’ (currently a notch up at C-) and have estimated more than $4.5…
Commentary
InfoDrainage 2021.6 is the sixth installment of new and improved features being brought to the water industry this year, and our development team has just implemented updates that include a few requested features. Premium Tier license First, we’ve launched our Premium Tier license, which offers the ability to demonstrate overland flow paths for exceedance events…
Drainage design
Since the Clean Water Act/Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, the federal government has actively supported wet infrastructure investment through various means, including the recently passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). This new bill, and its section 914, centers on authorizing and creating programs to support drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects. The…
Commentary
We’ve just launched a public beta for Info360 Asset, our software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that was released at the beginning of the year. Info360 Asset helps asset management practitioners review, store, and manage all inspection data effectively, assess condition conveniently, and determine risks accurately, all from a single cloud-based platform. It also provides non-technical stakeholders with an easy-to-understand…
Product news
We have seen the same mistakes made over and over. We have designed and built the InfoWorks ICM and WSPro Workgroup architecture so that you don’t have to make these same mistakes again. 1. Your model is not purpose-driven The first mistake is embarking on a project without a clear purpose. That purpose could be…
Storm, sewer, flood
When a pipe bursts, how do you find the critical pipes?
Water distribution
Summary We often get asked about troubleshooting models. Here is the best advice we’ve collected from speaking to customers in-depth – here’s what we recommend you do when you need to understand what went wrong. To begin with, troubleshooting a problematic, non-convergent model can be avoided by following best practices, providing sensible and well thought…
Drainage design