Water Utilities
Future-Proof Water Infrastructure
Confidently plan, design, build, operate, and maintain smart and resilient water and wastewater systems.
FEATURED SOLUTIONS
Enhance dam safety with digital twin technology for timely risk assessment, remote monitoring, and efficient data analysis.
Gain actionable insights to help improve water network monitoring, performance, and operational efficiencies.
Advance Digitally To Support Water System Modernization
EMPOWER PEOPLE TO DO MORE WITH LESS
Get visibility to the right data, faster and with pinpoint accuracy. Let the system wade through the data so you can focus on what’s important. Situational context and insights for evidence-driven decisions that make your vital water infrastructure smarter and more resilient, so you can do more with less and better and confidently serve your stakeholders and help make the planet a better place to thrive.
Positive Impact on Water Scarcity
Water is life. Yet so many struggle for clean and affordable water or worry about the effect of droughts and the taps turning off. Plan and design smarter and more resilient water systems faster than ever before, and with complete transparency with all stakeholders. Then optimize the operation and maintenance with powerful AI, analytics, modeling, and simulation for fast and accurate answers when you need them.
Emergency Preparedness and Resilience
Prepare with contingency plans, real-time data, and modeling to mitigate climate event impacts. Assess and forecast flood risk, implement safety programs, and monitor assets for water resources and infrastructure.
Optimizing the Business of Water
From reducing non-revenue water losses to preventing service interruptions and optimizing pump efficiency toward net zero goals, lead your team through the digital transformation. Utilities and engineering consultants can modernize processes and practices in water, wastewater, and stormwater system planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance.
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Water Distribution
Understanding how water infrastructure behaves as a system is important. Easy-to-use decision support puts knowledge at your fingertips to plan for climate change, population growth, operational strategies, and contingency plans.
Water System Planning & Design
Utilities, governments, and engineering firms around the world trust Bentley’s hydraulic and hydrology software to create master plans, support land development projects, design distribution networks faster and with precision, and design and optimize water system expansions. Advanced interoperability, scenario management, and hydraulic simulation and model management are favorites for engineers managing infrastructure with high complexity in a changing environment.
Recommended Software
Capital Planning
For risk-based pipe renewal decisions, you need proof that assets are highest risk and need to be prioritized for replacement. You need evidence that lower priority assets are safe and reliable. Make the best capital planning decisions by first assessing risk scenarios, and calculating likelihood and consequence of failure. Justify your decisions with the evidence based on current data so you can optimize plans and confidently communicate results with stakeholders.
Recommended Software
Water System Operational Monitoring
Analyze, simulate, and predict current system conditions and performance. The digital twin of your distribution network and pumping stations helps you to reduce service interruptions, reduce non-revenue water losses, ensure regulatory compliance, and mitigate risks. Get control of your data to make better decisions faster within a connected data environment.
Recommended Software
FEATURED USER STORIES
Companhia Águas de Joinville (CAJ), Brazil
Drought Contingency Plan
Using the hydraulic model to simulate conditions of drought on 285 kilometers of network pipeline.
Larsen and Toubro, India
Water Supply Scheme (Surface Water Treatment)
L&T designed water supply system to provide safe drinking water to a rural population of over 14 million people across 388 villages.
DC Water
Improved Visibility
A digital twin helps to reduce operational and capital expenditures and reduce non-revenue water loss with improved visibility of data and analytics.
“DC Water is improving operational and financial resilience by implementing a water infrastructure digital twin.”
– Alireza Parhami, P.E., Senior Hydraulic Modeling Lead, DC Water - Wastewater
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Wastewater and Stormwater Collection
Healthy communities, safe and efficient sanitation, reduced energy use, and net-zero carbon emissions. Our stormwater systems are designed to handle intense rainfall and severe weather conditions. Today’s thinking is supported by leading software.
Sewer Network Engineering - Planning & Design
Reduce risks and comply with regulations. Plan, analyze, and design – in 2D or 3D- wastewater and combined sewer systems with hydraulic and hydrology engineering. Get comprehensive scenario and model management, and optimized calibration. Improve capacity and limit sewer overflows. Analyze complex stormwater systems and model effects of rainfall, runoff, gravity, pressure, inlet capture and bypass, ponds, outlet structures, open channels, and culverts. Anything that impacts the sewer system can impact the health of your community. Don’t settle for anything less than the best.
Recommended Software
Sewer Network Operation
Get the complete picture to make fast and accurate decisions. Integrate plant, lift station and hydraulic models, engineering and geospatial data with real-time SCADA. With more instrumentation and IoT sensors, you need to transform your business to operate intelligently and maintain the essential wastewater services of your community. It’s time to create a digital twin of your wastewater and stormwater infrastructure. We can help.
Recommended Software
Flood Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Simulate flooding in areas due to storm surge, excessive rainfall, infiltration, surface runoff, channel flow, and groundwater flow. Mitigate flood risks in urban, river and coastal areas. Calculate river flow, as well as the extent of flooding, and estimate the flood hazard. Used by the best and now, it’s your turn.
Recommended Software
FEATURED USER STORIES
QUATTRONE & ASSOCIATES
Stormwater Network Design Solution
Using OpenFlows StormCAD saves $10,000 and avoids a potential six-month construction delay.
Primove Infrastructure Development Consultants
Stormwater Masterplan for 11 villages, Pune, India
When faced with coordination and site challenges, Primove realized they need a digital context to manage the large scope of work and determine an optimal network design.
AEGEA
Optimizes Sewerage Network Expansion with SewerGEMS
90 percent coverage expected at 58 percent lower cost with master plan
“Water distribution and wastewater collection systems may not be top of mind for the average person, but they are critical infrastructure for increased urbanization and improved healthy living. According to extensive market research by ARC Advisory Group, Bentley Systems is the global leader for engineering design software for these systems.”
– Ralph Rio, Vice President, Enterprise Software, ARC Advisory Group, June 2022
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Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
Deliver minimal (to zero) energy footprint, zero emissions, 100% water recycling (zero water usage). Today’s best-in-class treatment facilities are at the forefront of environmental impact design.
Interdisciplinary Planning, Design, & Project Delivery
Reduce the time and cost required to design your next water or wastewater treatment plant, leveraging collaborative design and BIM. Increase speed and flexibility with an environment that supports project teams working together online or independently offline. Get a 3D design for piping, HVAC, and mechanical and electrical equipment, with automatic clash detection, version comparison, and issue resolution.
Recommended Software
Operational Intelligence
For improved plant performance, energy efficiency, chemical management, and risk analysis, today, you need operational intelligence. Connect your physical assets to the virtual ones to achieve better operations decisions with advanced analytics, machine learning, simulation, and modeling. Deliver the highest possible performance at the lowest cost.
Recommended Software
Visual Asset Performance Management
With a digital twin of your plant, coupled with risk-based reliability and integrity management strategies, you have asset intelligence at your fingertips for improved decision-making. The digital twin of your plant and pumping stations will help you provide safe, reliable, compliant, risk-free, and cost-efficient operation.
Recommended Software
FEATURED USER STORIES
Cism Consulting
Cachoeira Sewage Treatment Plant, Holambra, São Paulo, Brazil
To expand and improve Holambra’s sanitary sewage system, Cism used a real-time solution from Bentley that could integrate 3D models created by each discipline and provide BIM workflows.
Jacobs
F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center, Gwinnet County, Georgia
To increase the existing flow and treatment capacity, engineers were tasked with designing the complex retrofit project and faced challenges coordinating a remote team, compounded by the limited functionality of existing outdated as-built models.
Brown and Caldwell
Implementing Digital Twins on a Fully Collaborative Project
Engineers faced challenges integrating many disparate design tools, as well as maintaining data application from design through construction, operations, and maintenance.
“Bentley Systems has built several industry-specific reliability software solutions that combine Bentley’s design engineering and asset performance expertise and capabilities to improve maintenance operations and planning across the entire asset lifecycle. This industry focus has helped the company become a leading supplier of reliability software in many major industries including electric power T&D, mining, and water and wastewater,”
– Interpreet Shoker, Senior Analyst, ARC Advisory Group
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Dams
Keeping dams safe means protecting society and the environment. Identify early signs of changing behaviors that can compromise structural integrity. Monitor ground, channel, and surface water flows, and detect structural anomalies prior to impact on performance. All this reduces risks and increases safety.
Dam Monitoring
Aging structures, extreme rainfall events, and seismic activity, can wreak havoc with water resource and utility operations, leaving agencies vulnerable to water supply disruption or worse. Automated dam safety management programs provide state-of-the-art IoT monitoring and operational intelligence for real-time insights and risk mitigation for your portfolio of dams. Visit our Dam Monitoring Page.
Recommended Software
Dam Structures Planning And Design
Today’s complex dam infrastructure requires interdisciplinary collaboration amongst engineering teams across the entire project lifecycle. This integration and information management is enabled through building information modeling (BIM). And visualization helps engineers to explore design alternatives with ease.
Recommended Software
Finite Element Analysis
Stress analysis to assure that dam infrastructures are safe can be done accurately and quickly with finite element analysis programs. Engineers use it to perform comprehensive safety and performance studies where reliability and resilience are critical. Simulate complete behavior of structures to create confidence in designs that are safer and more cost-effective than those merely analyzed to meet prescribed code standards.
Recommended Software
FEATURED USER STORIES
HDR
Diablo Dam Digital Twin Modeling
The 2017 overtopping of the dam in Oroville, California resulted in the evacuation of more than 180,000 people.
Underground Pumping Station
Water Supply to 1.5 Million Residents
By using Bentley’s collaborative 3D modeling applications, they reduced design errors by 95% and saved CNY 10 million.
AEGEA
Optimizes Sewerage Network Expansion with SewerGEMS
90 percent coverage expected at 58 percent lower cost with master plan
“What’s inspiring to me is that the digital twin provides more access to high-fidelity imagery and data. The dam is safer, and the ability to get data is safe and efficient.”
– Carlos Femmer, Associate Vice President/Data Acquisition Cross Sector Director, HDR
Water Distribution
Understanding how water infrastructure behaves as a system is important. Easy-to-use decision support puts knowledge at your fingertips to plan for climate change, population growth, operational strategies, and contingency plans.
Water System Planning & Design
Utilities, governments, and engineering firms around the world trust Bentley’s hydraulic and hydrology software to create master plans, support land development projects, design distribution networks faster and with precision, and design and optimize water system expansions. Advanced interoperability, scenario management, and hydraulic simulation and model management are favorites for engineers managing infrastructure with high complexity in a changing environment.
Recommended Software
Capital Planning
For risk-based pipe renewal decisions, you need proof that assets are highest risk and need to be prioritized for replacement. You need evidence that lower priority assets are safe and reliable. Make the best capital planning decisions by first assessing risk scenarios, and calculating likelihood and consequence of failure. Justify your decisions with the evidence based on current data so you can optimize plans and confidently communicate results with stakeholders.
Recommended Software
Water System Operational Monitoring
Analyze, simulate, and predict current system conditions and performance. The digital twin of your distribution network and pumping stations helps you to reduce service interruptions, reduce non-revenue water losses, ensure regulatory compliance, and mitigate risks. Get control of your data to make better decisions faster within a connected data environment.
Recommended Software
FEATURED USER STORIES
Companhia Águas de Joinville (CAJ), Brazil
Drought Contingency Plan
Using the hydraulic model to simulate conditions of drought on 285 kilometers of network pipeline.
Larsen and Toubro, India
Water Supply Scheme (Surface Water Treatment)
L&T designed water supply system to provide safe drinking water to a rural population of over 14 million people across 388 villages.
DC Water
Improved Visibility
A digital twin helps to reduce operational and capital expenditures and reduce non-revenue water loss with improved visibility of data and analytics.
“DC Water is improving operational and financial resilience by implementing a water infrastructure digital twin.”
Wastewater and Stormwater Collection
Healthy communities, safe and efficient sanitation, reduced energy use, and net-zero carbon emissions. Our stormwater systems are designed to handle intense rainfall and severe weather conditions. Today’s thinking is supported by leading software.
Sewer Network Engineering - Planning & Design
Reduce risks and comply with regulations. Plan, analyze, and design – in 2D or 3D- wastewater and combined sewer systems with hydraulic and hydrology engineering. Get comprehensive scenario and model management, and optimized calibration. Improve capacity and limit sewer overflows. Analyze complex stormwater systems and model effects of rainfall, runoff, gravity, pressure, inlet capture and bypass, ponds, outlet structures, open channels, and culverts. Anything that impacts the sewer system can impact the health of your community. Don’t settle for anything less than the best.
Recommended Software
Sewer Network Operation
Get the complete picture to make fast and accurate decisions. Integrate plant, lift station and hydraulic models, engineering and geospatial data with real-time SCADA. With more instrumentation and IoT sensors, you need to transform your business to operate intelligently and maintain the essential wastewater services of your community. It’s time to create a digital twin of your wastewater and stormwater infrastructure. We can help.
Recommended Software
Flood Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Simulate flooding in areas due to storm surge, excessive rainfall, infiltration, surface runoff, channel flow, and groundwater flow. Mitigate flood risks in urban, river and coastal areas. Calculate river flow, as well as the extent of flooding, and estimate the flood hazard. Used by the best and now, it’s your turn.
Recommended Software
FEATURED USER STORIES
QUATTRONE & ASSOCIATES
Stormwater Network Design Solution
Using OpenFlows StormCAD saves $10,000 and avoids a potential six-month construction delay.
Primove Infrastructure Development Consultants
Stormwater Masterplan for 11 villages, Pune, India
When faced with coordination and site challenges, Primove realized they need a digital context to manage the large scope of work and determine an optimal network design.
AEGEA
Optimizes Sewerage Network Expansion with SewerGEMS
90 percent coverage expected at 58 percent lower cost with master plan
“Water distribution and wastewater collection systems may not be top of mind for the average person, but they are critical infrastructure for increased urbanization and improved healthy living. According to extensive market research by ARC Advisory Group, Bentley Systems is the global leader for engineering design software for these systems.”
– Ralph Rio, Vice President, Enterprise Software, ARC Advisory Group, June 2022
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
Deliver minimal (to zero) energy footprint, zero emissions, 100% water recycling (zero water usage). Today’s best-in-class treatment facilities are at the forefront of environmental impact design.
Interdisciplinary Planning, Design, & Project Delivery
Reduce the time and cost required to design your next water or wastewater treatment plant, leveraging collaborative design and BIM. Increase speed and flexibility with an environment that supports project teams working together online or independently offline. Get a 3D design for piping, HVAC, and mechanical and electrical equipment, with automatic clash detection, version comparison, and issue resolution.
Recommended Software
Operational Intelligence
For improved plant performance, energy efficiency, chemical management, and risk analysis, today, you need operational intelligence. Connect your physical assets to the virtual ones to achieve better operations decisions with advanced analytics, machine learning, simulation, and modeling. Deliver the highest possible performance at the lowest cost.
Recommended Software
Visual Asset Performance Management
With a digital twin of your plant, coupled with risk-based reliability and integrity management strategies, you have asset intelligence at your fingertips for improved decision-making. The digital twin of your plant and pumping stations will help you provide safe, reliable, compliant, risk-free, and cost-efficient operation.
Recommended Software
FEATURED USER STORIES
Cism Consulting
Cachoeira Sewage Treatment Plant, Holambra, São Paulo, Brazil
To expand and improve Holambra’s sanitary sewage system, Cism used a real-time solution from Bentley that could integrate 3D models created by each discipline and provide BIM workflows.
Jacobs
F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center, Gwinnet County, Georgia
To increase the existing flow and treatment capacity, engineers were tasked with designing the complex retrofit project and faced challenges coordinating a remote team, compounded by the limited functionality of existing outdated as-built models.
Brown and Caldwell
Implementing Digital Twins on a Fully Collaborative Project
Engineers faced challenges integrating many disparate design tools, as well as maintaining data application from design through construction, operations, and maintenance.
“Bentley Systems has built several industry-specific reliability software solutions that combine Bentley’s design engineering and asset performance expertise and capabilities to improve maintenance operations and planning across the entire asset lifecycle. This industry focus has helped the company become a leading supplier of reliability software in many major industries including electric power T&D, mining, and water and wastewater,”
– Interpreet Shoker, Senior Analyst, ARC Advisory Group
Dams
Keeping dams safe means protecting society and the environment. Identify early signs of changing behaviors that can compromise structural integrity. Monitor ground, channel, and surface water flows, and detect structural anomalies prior to impact on performance. All this reduces risks and increases safety.
Dam Monitoring
Aging structures, extreme rainfall events, and seismic activity, can wreak havoc with water resource and utility operations, leaving agencies vulnerable to water supply disruption or worse. Automated dam safety management programs provide state-of-the-art IoT monitoring and operational intelligence for real-time insights and risk mitigation for your portfolio of dams. Visit our Dam Monitoring Page.
Recommended Software
Dam Structures Planning And Design
Today’s complex dam infrastructure requires interdisciplinary collaboration amongst engineering teams across the entire project lifecycle. This integration and information management is enabled through building information modeling (BIM). And visualization helps engineers to explore design alternatives with ease.
Recommended Software
Finite Element Analysis
Stress analysis to assure that dam infrastructures are safe can be done accurately and quickly with finite element analysis programs. Engineers use it to perform comprehensive safety and performance studies where reliability and resilience are critical. Simulate complete behavior of structures to create confidence in designs that are safer and more cost-effective than those merely analyzed to meet prescribed code standards.
Recommended Software
FEATURED USER STORIES
HDR
Diablo Dam Digital Twin Modeling
The 2017 overtopping of the dam in Oroville, California resulted in the evacuation of more than 180,000 people.
Underground Pumping Station
Water Supply to 1.5 Million Residents
By using Bentley’s collaborative 3D modeling applications, they reduced design errors by 95% and saved CNY 10 million.
AEGEA
Optimizes Sewerage Network Expansion with SewerGEMS
90 percent coverage expected at 58 percent lower cost with master plan
“What’s inspiring to me is that the digital twin provides more access to high-fidelity imagery and data. The dam is safer, and the ability to get data is safe and efficient.”
– Carlos Femmer, Associate Vice President/Data Acquisition Cross Sector Director, HDR
“Bentley software produced a digital twin model of the city’s water supply, wastewater, stormwater and bathing water systems, to forecast flooding and water quality issues, thereby improving city response and resilience.”
Pedro Vieira, IT and Innovation Director, Águas e Energia do Porto
