InfoWater Pro
Commercial
Autodesk's ArcGIS Pro-native distribution modelling — for utilities whose network data lives in Esri.
QGISRed
ActiveA QGIS plugin that turns the free GIS into a water-network modelling environment for EPANET.
by ITA, Universitat Politècnica de València
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- QGIS, EPANET
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
QGIS → Plugins → Manage and Install Plugins → "QGISRed"About QGISRed
QGISRed, from the ITA group at Universitat Politècnica de València, brings distribution-network model building into QGIS: digitise or import networks, manage elevations from DEMs, assign demands, detect topology errors, run EPANET simulations and visualise results — with the model stored as GIS layers throughout.
For small utilities and consultancies that already work in QGIS, it assembles a genuinely free modelling stack (QGIS + QGISRed + EPANET) that covers a surprising share of what commercial GIS-integrated packages charge for.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
Appears in collections
- The EPANET Ecosystem
The public-domain engine and everything built on it — Python, MATLAB, QGIS and the browser.
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Ranked by the topics, categories and workflow stages they share with QGISRed.
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EPANET-MATLAB Toolkit
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Full MATLAB control of the EPANET engine — the standard bridge for control and optimisation research.
OpenFlows WaterGEMS
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Bentley's flagship distribution suite — design, optimisation and criticality on EPANET-compatible hydraulics.
WNTR
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Sandia/EPA's Python toolkit for water network resilience — EPANET simulation plus disaster scenarios and metrics.