Arizonas Largest City Expands Relationship with MWH Soft, Deploying InfoWater Advanced GIS Technology to Support Enterprise-Wide Geospatial Hydraulic Modeling

MWH Soft, Inc., a leading global provider of water resources applications software, today announced that the City of Phoenix Water Services Department, serving the sixth largest and one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, has selected MWH Soft InfoWater Suite for its enterprise GIS hydraulic modeling.

Broomfield, O (PRWEB) September 12, 2004 -- MWH Soft, Inc., a leading global provider of water resources applications software, today announced that the City of Phoenix Water Services Department, serving the sixth largest and one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, has selected MWH Soft InfoWater Suite for its enterprise GIS hydraulic modeling. The utility considered other geospatial modeling software, but ultimately opted to upgrade to multiple licenses of InfoWater Suite ArcGIS-based (ESRI, Redlands, California) technology. The selection underscores MWH Softs market-leading momentum in advanced geospatial infrastructure modeling solutions in North America.

The Phoenix Water Services Department serves a population of more than 1.4 million in a service area of 530 square miles, one of the largest utility service areas in the nation. It operates 6,011 miles of water mains and five treatment plants with a combined capacity of about 630 million gallons per day. The utility will use InfoWater as the basis for developing a comprehensive ArcGIS-based solution for modeling and managing its drinking water infrastructure and optimizing its capital improvement projects.

"Weve been using MWH Soft powerful H2ONET CAD-based technology for the past seven years, and we are delighted that MWH Soft continues to leverage its proven expertise by porting these world-class modeling and optimization capabilities to the rich ArcGIS platform," said Walid A. Alsmadi, P.E., Water and Wastewater Modeling Engineer and Project Manager with the City of Phoenix. "Using InfoWater, we fully expect to see even greater time and cost efficiencies in areas such as engineering, design, planning, GIS and project collaboration."

Unlike competing products, the innovative network modeling technology of the MWH Soft 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 and drawing on the most advanced numerical computation and object-component geospatial 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 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 improvements to achieve optimum performance and regulatory compliance, and meet new security challenges.

"The Phoenix Water Services Department is known nationally for superior GIS, engineering and innovation, so it's no surprise that this progressive utility has chosen the reliability, flexibility, time-saving capabilities, powerful functionality and error-reducing advantages of InfoWater," said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, President and COO of MWH Soft. "The Department has maintained its industry-leading position by continually innovating and setting tighter standards within the industry. Its adoption of InfoWater software represents an investment in many more decades of engineering excellence. MWH Soft is very proud to participate in the utilitys success."

"The increasing number and variety of utilities and consulting engineering companies using this vital technology illustrates how valuable comprehensive network modeling software has become in the waterworks field," said J. Erick Heath, P.E., Vice President of Sales and Client Relations at MWH Soft. "The MWH Soft InfoWater Suite delivers the advanced technology water utility professionals need to get their jobs done faster and more efficiently than ever before, and share mission-critical modeling information to benefit the entire organization, its customers, and its partners."

"This industry faces massive and escalating pressure to deliver high quality water, improve security, maintain reliable operations, maximize savings, and protect public health," said Boulos. "InfoWater is designed to deliver the optimized performance they need to keep pace and meet these tremendous challenges without compromising quality."

MWH Soft, Inc. 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 and GIS enabled products created by MWH Soft, Inc., empower thousands of engineers across the globe to competitively manage, design, and operate highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems. For more information, call MWH Soft, Inc. at (626) 568-6868, or visit www.mwhsoft.com.

J. Erick Heath, P.E.
Vice President of Sales and Client Relations
Erick.Heath@mwhsoft.com
(626) 568-6868
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