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From Toilet To Tap Paul Rozin  argues  that we need to overcome our disgust with recycled water. He offers Singapore's NEWater as an example of effective marketing:  Four treatment plants throughout the country take sewage, filter it through several membranes, and expose it to ultraviolet light to make it safe to drink. Now 30 percent of the country’s total water demand is met using reclaimed (i.e., recycled) sewage. The program’s success was due in part to a dedicated communications team that conducted a massive public education campaign, which included a TV documentary. But Singapore also made the decision to release the cleaned-up wastewater into reservoirs, where it got re-treated along with regular tap water. This extra step was hygienically redundant but psychologically vital in helping Singaporeans accept NEWater as a fact of life. The above animation was created by primary school students in Singapore.

North Carolina State Capital Chooses Innovyze Smart Water Network Technology to Support Large-Scale Modeling Efforts City of Raleigh Adopts InfoWater and InfoWorks CS Viewer for Greater Efficiency and Productivity Broomfield, Colorado USA,  September 18, 2012  — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today announced that the City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department, N.C., has selected  InfoWater  and  InfoWorks CS Viewer  to meet its complex water and wastewater modeling requirements. With this purchase, the City of Raleigh gains access to the most advanced and comprehensive water distribution and sewer collection system modeling and management applications in the industry. In 2011, Raleigh earned the title of America’s Best City by Business Week and is home to North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Its Public Utilities Department provides water

God Created the World, But the Dutch Created the Netherlands By  Matthew Yglesias  |  Posted  Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, at 10:10 AM ET Horace Dediu's  presentation on the history of Amsterdam  features the amazing land reclamation map above. Utrecht, which is now inland, used to be a port. And Amsterdam is where the ocean used to be. Haarlem is part of the mainland but looks to be located on what was once a barrier island. It's a commonplace of economics that they're not making any more land, but this is a powerful reminder that once upon a time it was actually pretty common for technologically advanced societies to build more land. Leaving that era behind us is probably a good idea (imagine the environmental impact review!), but that only makes it all the more important to try to use the land we do have wisely.

Indoor Plumbing Is an Amazing Invention By  Matthew Yglesias  |  Posted  Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, at 3:25 PM ET A young woman washes her face at a newly built deep water well in 2010 Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images. Robert Gordon has a working paper out making some not-particularly-persuasive,  super-pessimistic, speculative claims about the future of American economic growth  that does include, as an aside, this very persuasive observation about consumer surplus: A thought experiment helps to illustrate the fundamental importance of the inventions of [Industrial Revolution] #2 compared to the subset of [Industrial Revolution] #3 inventions that have occurred since 2002. You are required to make a choice between option A and option B. With option A you are allowed to keep 2002 electronic technology, including your Windows 98 laptop accessing Amazon, and you can keep running water and indoor toilets; but you can’t use anything invented since 2002. Option B is that you get every

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Conferences, User Groups and the Latest Software Releases Agenda Released for Innovyze European User Conference 2012 We are pleased to announce the release of the provisional agenda for this year's conference. Our thanks to the wide range of presenters that have offered papers for the event; we believe this year's conference will be both hugely beneficial and enjoyable for all in attendance. The conference will be made up of two programmes, a combined "Water Supply, Drainage and Flooding" two-day programme (September 19-20) and an "Asset Management" one-day programme (September 20). Keep in touch before, during and after the conference by following us on Twitter @Innovyze #EuroConf View the agenda at the conference website Asia Pacific Conference Showcases Engineering Excellence This week's 2012 Asia Pacific Water and Sewer Systems Modeling Conference brought together world leaders in water and sewer network modeling, network man

How Does Horton Infiltration Work in SWMM 5? by  dickinsonre This sketch summarizes what happens in a SWMM 5 Subcatchment for Horton Infiltration during a storm event: 1.         The event starts out with the potential infiltration rate at the maximum infiltration rate but 2.        Decay starts happening right away and the potential infiltration rate starts decreasing until it reaches the minimum infiltration rate (assuming the storm last long enough), 3.        The actual infiltration rate is the minimum of the rainfall rate or the potential infiltration rate, 4.        Using the Huff distributions for rainfall the runoff does not start happening until the rainfall rate exceeds the potential infiltration rate in these models 5.        The runoff ceases after the rainfall rate becomes less than the current potential infiltration rate later in the storm, 6.        The maximum infiltration volume for Horton caps the storm event infiltration at 10 mm in this example, the infiltration wil

Innovyze Releases InfoWorks ICM Generation V3.0; Continuing to Set the Standard for Smart Integrated Catchment Modeling HEC-RAS Imports, Advanced Water Quality, Improved Results Analysis, and Performance Enhancements Highlight New Features Broomfield, Colorado USA,  August 21, 2012  — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today announced the release of the V3.0 Generation of InfoWorks ICM , a comprehensive urban drainage modeling solution that enables users to work more efficiently and get the reliable information they need to make better design and operational decisions for optimal performance. Since its release,  InfoWorks ICM  has rapidly become the solution of choice for integrated river, sewer and overland flow modeling among utilities, municipalities, local authorities and their consultants around the world.  InfoWorks ICM  V3.0 incorporates many of the features requested by its worldwide customer base—a

Learning To Think by Zoë Pollock on The Dish August 16,2012 Verlyn Klinkenborg's  advice  to young writers: Before you learn to write well, to trust yourself as a writer, you will have to learn to be patient in the presence of your own thoughts. You’ll learn that making sentences in your head will elicit thoughts you didn’t know you could have. Thinking patiently will yield far better sentences than you thought you could make. I’m repeatedly asked how I write, what my “process” is. My answer is simple: I think patiently, trying out sentences in my head. That is the root of it. What happens on paper or at the keyboard is only distantly connected. The virtue of working this way is that circumstances — time, place, tools — make no difference whatsoever. All I need is my head. All I need is the moments I have.

Subject:    SWMM 5 Weir RTC Rules SWMM 5 Weir RTC Rules by  dickinsonre Subject:    SWMM 5 Weir RTC Rules This example SWMM 5 model closes a weir based on the depth at the upstream node of the Weir every 0.25 feet.  You can see the effect of the RTC rules using a Scatter plot of Weir Flow versus Weir Depth in SWMM 5 (Figure 1).   The Weir flows normally every 0.25 feet but shuts down three times using these rules which set the Weir Setting to 0.0 RULE Weir100 IF Node  WeirNode Depth > 1.75 AND Node WeirNode Depth < 2.0 THEN WEIR WEIR Setting = 0.0 Priority 2 RULE Weir101 IF Node  WeirNode Depth > 2.25 AND Node WeirNode Depth < 2.5 THEN WEIR WEIR Setting = 0.0 Priority 2 RULE Weir102 IF Node  WeirNode Depth > 2.75 AND Node WeirNode Depth < 3.0 THEN WEIR WEIR Setting = 0.0 Priority 2 RULE Weir103 IF Node  WeirNode Depth > 3.25 AND Node WeirNode Depth < 3.5 THEN WEIR WEIR Setting = 0.0 Priority 2 RULE Weir104 IF Node  WeirNode Depth > 3.75 AND Node WeirNode Dept

Via   http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/what_trees_mean_to_communities.html If you’re interested in the subject of the community benefits of trees, you can get additional information from the websites of the  National Arbor Day Foundation  and the US Forest Service .  Among the tidbits I learned on one or the other of those two sites are these: The net cooling effect of a young, healthy tree is equivalent to ten room-size air conditioners operating 20 hours a day. If you plant a tree today on the west side of your home, in 5 years your energy bills should be 3 percent less. In 15 years the savings will be nearly 12 percent. One acre of forest absorbs six tons of carbon dioxide and puts out four tons of oxygen.  A number of studies have shown that real estate agents and home buyers assign between 10 and 23 percent of the value of a residence to the trees on the property. Surgery patients who could see a grove of deciduous trees recuperated faster and required less pain-k

Fifty Years of Watershed Modeling – Past, Present and Future September 24-26, 2012 Boulder, Colorado On behalf of Engineering Conferences International and the conference chairs,  Anthony S. Donigian, Jr.  (AQUA TERRA Consultants), and Richard Field  (US Environmental Protection Agency/ORD [retired], Michael J. Baker Jr., Inc.), it is my pleasure to extend this invitation to you to participate in  Fifty Years of Watershed Modeling – Past, Present and Future  to be held September 24-26, 2012 at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research – Center Green Campus) in Boulder, Colorado. Continuous Simulation using SWMM 5 LID and Groundwater Features in a Linked 1D/2D Network using InfoSWMM 2D for a 50 Year Period has been accepted for  Poster Presentation  at the forthcoming conference  Fifty Years of Watershed Modeling: Past, Present and Future  to be held September 24-26, 2012 at  National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR – Center Green Campus) in Boulder, Colorado.

Huff Distribution SWMM 5 Model by  dickinsonre via Blogger  http://www.swmm5.net/2013/08/ huff-distribution-swmm-5- model.html

Innovyze Releases IWLive Generation V3.0; Continuing to Set the Standard for Real-Time Smart Water Network Modeling, Operation and Security New Version Improves SCADA Connectivity, Hydraulic Modeling Accuracy, and Speeds Implementation Times Broomfield, Colorado USA,  August 14, 2012  — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced the worldwide release of the V3.0 Generation of  IWLive  for real-time water distribution hydraulic and water quality modeling, monitoring, forecasting and SCADA integration. The release, incorporating features requested by utilities on three continents using  IWLive , gives water utilities more power in real-time business analytics and optimization and moves their hydraulic modeling and simulation applications from planning and design to operation and control. It also underscores the Innovyze technology leadership position in the water industry for delivering pioneering smar