Operational analytics


  • Generate dynamic digital twin hydraulic models with InfoWater Pro and Info360 Insight

    Water distribution utilities around the world are facing a rising number of challenges to maintain and operate their increasingly complex networks on tighter and tighter budgets. In the United States, 6 billion gallons of treated water is lost daily and 30% of water utility budgets for operations and maintenance are spent on energy costs for…


  • Unlock the potential of operations and maintenance with digital transformation [e-book]

    Operations and maintenance (O&M) in water and wastewater management are at a crossroads. Aging infrastructure, regulatory demands, climate uncertainty, and labor shortages create immense challenges for utilities and municipalities alike. In this complex environment, maintaining service levels and system performance is not a simple task. However, the growing influx of data from utility plants and…


  • How GHD created a CCTV + GIS solution for Aqua America with Autodesk and Esri tools

    Aqua Pennsylvania provides water and wastewater services to 32 counties across Pennsylvania and operates more than 50 wastewater systems. They face the same challenges many water utility owners across the globe also face: finding ways to efficiently maximize the management of aging infrastructure. In 2023, they turned to GHD to help them create a system…


  • Everything new in Autodesk’s desktop hydraulic modeling software 2025 releases

    The latest 2025 releases of all of our desktop hydraulic modeling solutions are out, and with them, there are a ton of new features waiting to help you in your workflows and processes. The Autodesk Water team has been hard at work developing solutions to real-world challenges you face in your day-to-day work and implementing…


  • Scaling and sharing domain knowledge inside your water utility with analytic templates

    The workers who provide clean drinking water and the conveyance and treatment of our sewage are critical to maintaining civil infrastructure. They deserve the best technology and tools to make them more productive and collaborative, but they are often hamstrung by organizational limitations. With the right tools, domain experts can grow a knowledge base repository…


  • Water Drops: NEXRAD, inlets, and templates, oh my!

    This release of Water Drops focuses on some key functionality to help improve your workflows: Designing inlets in InfoDrainage We’ve already seen many useful tools in InfoDrainage from previous Water Drops collections. In this video, we continue to built on those skills by taking a deep dive on inlets inside InfoDrainge. More specifically, how inlets should…


  • Creating a data-driven culture in your water utility with low-code and no-code analytics

    Water infrastructure, like treatment plants or networks, can generate lots of data. But is it useful information? How can captured data become actionable knowledge for planning, crisis management, and problem solving across organizations? Data is only useful when experts can interpret and share it so an organization can take action. We dig into new ideas…


  • Turning your data into decisions by creating a data culture inside your water utility

    Download the Autodesk e-book "Building a water data culture: How utilities can use operational analytics to turn data into decisions"


  • Output water-quality reports on demand using Info360 Plant – whenever you need it

    In 2016, an outbreak of campylobacter in the Havelock North community of New Zealand resulted in four deaths, 50+ people hospitalized, and over 8,000 illnesses — affecting about a third of people in the community and surrounding area. The likely culprit was sheep faeces draining into a shallow aquifer after a heavy rainstorm event. Considering…


  • WEFTEC chat: Easier ways to get data into your system

    Models love data. And, therefore, water modelers love data, too. But they sometimes face challenges with getting information into their water system before being able to organize and utilize it.   As Solutions Architect Javier Cantu told WaterOnline’s Angela Godwin at WEFTEC recently, “only around 5-20% of data being collected is being utilized for decision-making…