Broomfield, Colorado USA, September 20, 2007 — MWH Soft, a leading global provider of environmental and water resources applications software, today announced that Rand Water, South Africa, has chosen industry-leading InfoWater Suite as its standard water modeling solution. The utility plans to dramatically raise productivity and efficiency by using InfoWater to rapidly develop optimal capital improvement and operational strategies designed to minimize costs while enhancing system reliability, integrity, operation, management and performance. The resultant savings on operating budgets and capital expenditures will be used to fund other service enhancements.
Established in 1903 as a humble water utility servicing the gold rush in Johannesburg, Rand Water is now the largest bulk water utility in Africa and one of the largest in the world. It provides bulk potable water via 3,000 kilometers of pipeline infrastructure to more than 12 million people in Gauteng, parts of Mpumalanga, Free State and North West province — an area that spans 18,000 square kilometers.
Rand Water’s selection followed an extensive in-depth evaluation of leading CAD and GIS-based water modeling software packages. The firm also retained the services of GIMS Pty Ltd/Water-MIS, a leading utility solutions and GIS provider in Midrand, South Africa and Southern Africa, to assist in the evaluation.
“For a long time, we’ve been looking for a true engineering GIS modeling solution that can handle complex technical requirements without being complex to use,” said Allan Ressman, project consultant and hydraulic modeling specialist for GIMS Pty Ltd/Water-MIS. “A careful and in-depth evaluation of the network modeling products on the market confirmed that InfoWater has unquestionably raised the bar and set the standard for seamless GIS integration, intuitiveness and innovation, providing numerous technical, financial and organizational advantages and benefits for users worldwide.
InfoWater combines ease of use with powerful modeling functions and the ability to manage network models ranging from small to very large and complex. The productivity, time and efficiency gains produced by the geocentric modeling capabilities of InfoWater and ArcGIS are exponential and greatly speed up accurate model development and calibration. These advantages allow the user to carry out the sophisticated demand management that is so critical to determining sound and economical system improvements for modifying, upgrading and rehabilitating existing water distribution systems. We found InfoWater to be superior in terms of value and capability as well as savings for our clients. The product’s engineering technical support and documentation are of the highest caliber we found among its competitors. The overall strength of the company and superior customer satisfaction rate were also critical to our decision.”
The decision validates the experience of utilities worldwide who are discovering that MWH Soft geospatial technology is the fastest, most reliable and comprehensive, easiest-to-use GIS-centric modeling and management system in the mid-price range. These enterprises are concluding that MWH Soft products clearly offer broader functionality and a superior solution compared with competitive software. The choice further underscores the undisputed standing of
InfoWater Suite
as the industry’s premier geoengineering tool for modeling, optimizing, managing and securing hydraulic infrastructure systems.
Unlike competing products, the innovative network modeling technology of the InfoWater geospatial software suite addresses every facet of utility infrastructure management, optimization and protection — delivering the highest rate of return in the industry. Built atop ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA) and drawing on the most advanced numerical computation and genetic algorithms optimization technologies, it effortlessly reads GIS datasets; corrects network topology problems and data flaws; extracts pertinent modeling information; and automatically constructs, skeletonizes, loads, calibrates and generates optimized design, rehabilitation and pump scheduling solutions with astounding speed. The result is performance modeling that sets new levels of scalability, reliability, functionality and flexibility within the powerful ArcGIS environment. Using these advanced tools, utilities can easily simulate and evaluate various conditions, pinpoint system deficiencies, and determine the most cost-effective physical and operational improvements to maximize efficiency, achieve optimum performance and regulatory compliance, meet new security challenges, and enable more reliable operations.
“Our InfoWater software ranks as the fastest, most practical, comprehensive and accurate GIS-based water distribution modeling and optimization solution ever created for water engineers,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, President and Chief Operating Officer of MWH Soft. “It enables water utilities worldwide to move to a higher level of productivity and efficiency in several ways, helping them to manage their energy consumption more effectively; improve overall infrastructure operations; and quickly determine effective and economical design, rehabilitation, replacement, expansion, and enhancement solutions for maximum performance.
“We’re very proud to know that many of the world’s largest and best-run utility companies rely on our solutions to help them meet their corporate and strategic goals and achieve world-class performance at breakthrough cost savings. MWH Soft is honored to partner with these organizations and provide them with superior, easy-to-use technologies that help them serve their communities even more successfully. Rand Water’s decision to standardize on InfoWater is a strong endorsement of the software’s power and our ability to serve the world’s most demanding engineering environments. We are proud to be a key contributor to their success.”
About MWH Soft
MWH Soft is a leading global provider of technical and infrastructure software and professional solutions designed to meet the technological needs of utilities, government industries, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include the majority of the largest North American cities and ENR top design firms. The multifaceted, state-of-the-art CAD, GIS and Internet enabled products created by MWH Soft empower thousands of engineers across the globe to competitively plan, manage, design, protect, maintain and operate highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems. For more information, call MWH Soft at (626) 568-6868, or visit www.mwhsoft.com.
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