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Luna Leopold: words of water wisdom
From time to time, we like to collect our favorite quotes, sayings, and statistics about water and share them with readers. Today we’re celebrating one of the pioneers of hydrology: Luna Leopold. What strikes us about this quote, which Leopold wrote over half a century ago, is not just that it feels true but also…
Sustainability
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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…
Storm, sewer, flood
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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…
Storm, sewer, flood
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New release: InfoWorks WS Pro 2023.1
The newly released InfoWorks WS Pro 2023.1 provides hydraulic modelers with more accurate pump configuration and selection, cross-version compability, and enhanced water demand reporting. We have several updates that we hope will make hydraulic modeling faster and easier for you. System head curve analysis System head curves are designed to help InfoWorks WS Pro users…
Product news
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Words of Water Wisdom: Rainbows
From time to time, we like to collect our favorite quotes, sayings, and statistics about water and share them with readers. Today we’re celebrating a phenomenon that can’t happen unless water is present – the rainbow. We wondered: What, exactly, are the conditions that need to be present for a rainbow to form? Besides water,…
Sustainability
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Water Talk replay: Elevate your water operations with powerful data analytics
In our last Water Talk, Elevate Your Water Operations with Powerful Data Analytics, we talked about how you can use Info360 Insight to turn your live or uploaded data into analytics and really use it to drive your decision-making process. Want to be notified when new Water Talks are available? Sign up here to attend in person or subscribe to…
Water Talks
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Getting started with Info360 Asset: a new video playlist
Info360 Asset is our cloud-based application that helps asset practitioners at utilities and municipalities better manage costly inspection data, use historical and current condition data to monitor and assess condition and performance of their assets, and build models of likelihood of failure (LoF) and consequence of failure (CoF) for renewal prioritization planning. We’re always adding…
Asset management
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Why water professionals should attend Autodesk University 2022
Autodesk University, or “AU” as many people have come to call it after its 20+ year history, is where connection happens. Industry leaders and makers come together to exchange ideas and tackle the biggest challenges we face head on. For the first time in person, water professionals will have more opportunities than at any AU…
Events
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How Dekalb County changed their modeling approach to more accurately model RDII
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
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Watch the Water Talk: The advantages of using GIS data within your model
Our most recent Water Talk delves into InfoWater Pro Allocator, an app within InfoWater Pro that automates junction node demand allocation. If you’ve never used it – or never heard of it – it can be a huge time saver. You can load up a GIS data set that you might already have on hand like…
Water Talks