Delta Hydro

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Water Distribution Network Modelling Software

Distribution-system models answer pressure, demand, fire-flow and water-age questions across thousands of pipes. This page indexes the engines, wrappers and resilience toolkits used for distribution modelling — most of them free and scriptable.

EPANET

Gov-PublicVerified

The public-domain standard for water distribution modelling — hydraulics and water quality in pressurised networks.

Water Distribution & QualityActiveEPANETWater Distribution Modelling

Full MATLAB control of the EPANET engine — the standard bridge for control and optimisation research.

Water Distribution & QualityActiveEPANETWater Distribution Modelling

InfoWater Pro

Commercial

Autodesk's ArcGIS Pro-native distribution modelling — for utilities whose network data lives in Esri.

Water Distribution & QualityActiveWater Distribution ModellingPipe Network Analysis

MIKE+

Commercial

DHI's unified platform for rivers, urban drainage and distribution networks — successor to MIKE 11/MIKE URBAN.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveRiver ModellingSewer Modelling

Bentley's flagship distribution suite — design, optimisation and criticality on EPANET-compatible hydraulics.

Water Distribution & QualityActiveWater Distribution ModellingPipe Network Analysis

QGISRed

Open Source

A QGIS plugin that turns the free GIS into a water-network modelling environment for EPANET.

Water Distribution & QualityActiveEPANETQGIS Hydrology

WNTR

Open SourceVerified

Sandia/EPA's Python toolkit for water network resilience — EPANET simulation plus disaster scenarios and metrics.

Water Distribution & QualityActiveEPANETWater Distribution Modelling

epanet-js

Freemium

EPANET in the browser — build, import and run distribution models on a map with zero installation.

Water Distribution & QualityActiveEPANETWater Distribution Modelling