EPANET
Gov-PublicVerified
The public-domain standard for water distribution modelling — hydraulics and water quality in pressurised networks.
Water Distribution & QualityActiveEPANETWater Distribution Modelling
WNTR
DHS VerifiedActiveSandia/EPA's Python toolkit for water network resilience — EPANET simulation plus disaster scenarios and metrics.
by Sandia National Laboratories / US EPA
- Pricing
- Open Source
- License
- Revised BSD
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Python, EPANET
- Platform
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Install
pip install wntrAbout WNTR
WNTR (Water Network Tool for Resilience) wraps water-distribution modelling in Python with a resilience focus: run EPANET-compatible hydraulics (or its own pressure-dependent solver), then subject the network to earthquakes, pipe breaks, power outages and contamination events, and quantify the consequences with built-in resilience metrics.
Developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the EPA, it has become the de facto research platform for network resilience and a very capable general Python interface to EPANET models — network graphs come out as NetworkX objects, results as pandas, and the whole scientific Python stack is available around it.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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