WaterSums software has been inspired by several years spent by its lead developer as a professional engineer working for a large water authority in Australia. Some calculations with water networks are simple and easy to understand while others are fiendishly difficult. WaterSums is intended to reliably handle the simple computations as well as the complex; to provide visualization of scenarios that help us better understand the underlying laws of nature.

Technical background

WaterSums software aspires to being a reliable and accurate water analysis software tool. It attempts to pull together the best freely available water network analysis tools, through thorough integration and extension where necessary, to provide a single easy to use program that can be relied on to give good results. User interfaces are vital and WaterSums strives to provide powerful tools that are simple to learn and a pleasure to use.

To make rapid development easier, WaterSums uses the Microsoft .NET framework integrated with various open source and other tools for steady state and transient analysis of water networks, coordinate transformation, database access and image manipulation.

Prerequisites

1. Microsoft .NET Framework version 2
2. Adobe SVG Viewer version 3.0.2 or 3.0.3
3. Internet Explorer version 6 or better
4. Windows 2000 or XP

Please note that great care has been taken to ensure that no open source software has been used without due acknowledgment and in accordance with the licence under which it is published. If anybody has any questions about such licence details, please ask. Various building blocks developed by others have been used in WaterSums.