Hydro International upgrades water resource modelling software to help water companies plan more effectively for extreme drought events

Hydro International’s Data, Insights and Analysis (DIA) experts have given its Hydro-Logic® Aquator version XV a major upgrade, with the aim of helping water companies plan more effectively for drought events.

Able to run complex models of real-world water resource supply networks and systems, the company says the latest version of Hydro-Logic® Aquator is more flexible and includes new features and components.

Based on regulatory guidelines, the updated software has implemented a technique that allows modellers to determine the availability of water supplies during an extreme drought event.  This is the new ‘Enhanced Return Period Deployable Output’ analysis feature within the Analysis Control engine.  It allows users to combine results from multiple scenarios for the estimation of a single return period deployable output (DO). It has been specially designed for the estimation of DO under stochastic scenarios.

A new component has also been added which allows users to set models up to define trigger points for understanding the frequency with which demand saving restrictions may need to be imposed.  The ‘Event Group’ component allows modellers to define a set of conditions that trigger an event.  For example, one or more reservoirs reaching the drought alert curve.

Graph: The blue line shows the reservoir drawing down through the brown, mint, yellow and purple trigger points. Each time a coloured line is crossed, an intervention / restriction is imposed in the model to reduce demand (and thus to protect limited supplies), with this information captured by the Event Group component for estimating the frequency of imposition.

The Event Group can also be used in combination with the ‘Enhanced Return Period Deployable Output’ analysis feature.

The company says its Hydro-Logic® Aquator is ideal for modelling public water supplies, river catchments, lakes and reservoirs, hydropower systems, navigation and canal systems, and irrigation resource management.

To find out more about Hydro-Logic® Aquator visit:  hydro-int.com/aquator

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