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Protecting Florence’s past from future floods
What do Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Raphael, Galileo, Brunelleschi, and Botticelli all have in common? They all, at one point, lived in Florence, Italy. Home to the powerful and beneficent Medici family, this Renaissance city located beside Tuscany’s longest river, the Arno, has long been a wellspring of art and culture. But it’s also…
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RAFTS hydrology in InfoWorks ICM: A free Learning Series to help you transition
XPRAFTS has served the Australian stormwater industry well for over 45 years, and part of its usefulness is that it includes methods recommended by the Australian National Guidelines (most recently revised as ARR2019). Originally developed in the mid-1970s, Rafts as a program was around on MS-DOS in the 1980s. XPRAFTS was rewritten for Windows beginning…
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Colby Manwaring in Forbes: mitigating floods and securing water infrastructure
We were happy to see our own Colby Manwaring appear in a new Forbes article, How Technology Can Mitigate Flooding And Secure Water Infrastructure
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How SEERO analyzes sub-networks inside larger networks with InfoWorks ICM
This week, we’re delighted to be publishing a brand-new case study that features one of our customers in Qatar, SEERO. The story focuses on their work preparing for the FIFA World Cup, which officially kicks off in a matter of weeks, as well as on Qatar’s bold architecture and landscaping plans, which relies heavily on…
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A Stormies Guide to InfoWorks ICM: free learning series
If you’re looking to get started with InfoWorks ICM, we have some good news. We designed a series of videos for stormwater experts that is completely free and open to everyone. This is a great way to quickly learn the details of InfoWorks ICM from someone who knows the app inside and out – one…
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Watch the Water Talk: how to prepare for new California regulations
Our latest Water Talk is in the books – but you can watch it right here. The subject was California’s new general order for sanitary sewer systems, which our own David Totman, who co-hosted the talk, has written about recently. As David Totman points out in the Water Talk, the original general order for California…
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Facing rising floodwaters with advanced hydraulic modeling
It seems that every week, we hear increasingly worse news about flooding: Simply put, increasing temperatures are making extreme flood events happen more frequently. It’s getting wetter – and it’s past time to get prepared. The good news is that water technologies have been growing and evolving over the past 20 years. Forward thinking utilities have…
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The 3 biggest challenges utilities face with their storm, sewer, and flood models
Discover the 3 biggest challenges water utilities face with storm, sewer, and flood modeling and how to solve them.
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MIT Webinar: Building community resilience by reducing sewer overflows and improving flood management
For 92% of the world, the highest extreme climate risk comes from precipitation-related events, with most of those driven by rain. If those numbers sound dire, they don’t brighten up when you factor in the infrastructure decline in the US. Thankfully, there are academic voices doing the difficult work of highlighting the challenges and coming…
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Water Talk: Modeling Basics in InfoWorks ICM
Looking for a quick, basic tutorial for InfoWorks ICM? We have lots of great content on our support portal when you want to tackle every step, but sometimes watching over someone’s shoulder is a great place to start. So grab a source of data – a node, boundary, sub-catchment or whatever you have to start…
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