Bristol Water has provided clean, fresh drinking water to its customers since 1846. Today, Bristol Water serves over 1 million people in the city of Bristol and surrounding areas in the west of England. As part of its business plan, Bristol Water undertook its largest-ever program of customer engagement by inviting customers to participate in…
Customer stories
Bristol Water has proudly provided clean, fresh drinking water to its customers since 1846. They currently supply over 1 million people daily across an area of around 2,400 square kilometres in Bristol and surrounding parts of Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire. Their focus isn’t on wastewater, but of course they must still deal with the challenges…
Customer stories
This year, Autodesk University was packed with great discussions on the latest developments in and advancements made to technology built for the water industry. We’ve collected the best of these talks from AU, which you can watch at your leisure. These presentations and classes include helpful documents you can download to follow along or take…
Events
Andrea Tavera, a former University of Oklahoma graduate student, used Autodesk drainage design software to promote LID-based, green infrastructure design in hopes of resolving Oklahoma’s two greatest drainage challenges caused by stormwater runoff: excessive flooding and pollution. Efficient drainage design A master’s student, Andrea Tavera focused her thesis on the evaluation of Low Impact Development…
Drainage design
During drought, water loss becomes even more important for utilities and consultancies to track and mitigate the impact. Learn how.
Operational analytics
Dekalb County’s water professionals take their approach to rainfall management seriously, and they attribute their success to a unique approach that uses a Groundwater Infiltration Model (GIM) in InfoWorks ICM. For this project, Dekalb Watershed Management partnered with Jacobs Engineering to calibrate the wet weather flows in Dekalb County’s collection system model. Sometimes rainfall is…
Customer stories
Discover the 3 biggest challenges water utilities face with storm, sewer, and flood modeling and how to solve them.
Storm, sewer, flood
We host a new Water Talk every fortnight, and it was a relief to take a break from talking for a change and let our friend Susan Knepper from OHM Advisors tell their story during this most recent one. She went over past emergency scenarios and how the folks at OHM Advisors responded. It was…
Water Talks
Water utilities that haven’t yet gone fully digital face numerous challenges when monitoring and managing water: ambiguous or disorganized operations management, poor information and data management, and – of course – maintenance issues. These issues compound when there is a limited budget for maintenance. If you find that you continually run up against the problem…
Asset management
Do you have a goal to further develop your strategy for pipe inspection, condition evaluation, risk assessment, capital investment, or implementation planning? We have an asset management solution for every utility to help collaborative asset teams deliver actionable asset condition and risk planning in the cloud, enabling more productivity from the field to the office.…
Asset management