WaterCAD is a complete geographic information management system for your water utility in a cost-effective package that saves you money each time you use it. Analyze water quality, determine fire flow requirements, calibrate large distribution networks and more with WaterCAD's powerful hydraulic analysis tools.

WaterCAD is a sophisticated tool that enables engineers and decision makers to analyze and manage distribution networks with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency.

Modeling Environment

Building the Pipe Network
With WaterCAD, you can build your network from scratch by using simple drag-and-drop layout tools or by leveraging existing data sources to drastically streamline the model development process.

Automatically convert existing CAD lines and polylines into intelligent hydraulic elements by using the sophisticated polyline-to-pipe tools, seamlessly connect directly to GIS systems or databases, or quickly import files from other modeling packages.

Enhance your Productivity
• Learn WaterCAD in minutes with the interactive tutorials.
• Perform bulk edits and statistical analyses through the customizable FlexTablesTM.
• Customize your element labeling for the entire network.
• Quickly navigate your network with aerial viewing tools and dynamic pan and zoom, and identify topological errors using the Drawing Review tool.
• Model with confidence with unlimited undo and redo.
• Streamline data entry by setting default element characteristics using prototypes.
• Cut, copy, and paste information to or from other Windows applications.
• Use FlexUnits to dynamically customize units, decimal display precision, and number format.
• Edit data and dynamically view results with QuickEdit.
• Develop persistent selection sets of pipe reaches and store them for later use.

Design, Analyze, & Operate

Fire Flow Analysis
Determining water availability for fire protection needs is vital to a water utility. With WaterCAD, you have the automated tools to quickly and accurately establish acceptability of service throughout your water network and assess the ability of the system to provide adequate protection against fires.

Create detailed fire flow scenarios to evaluate the actual response of your system to critical events.

Unidirectional Flushing
Establish the appropriate sequence of valves and hydrants to manipulate in order to flush all or portions of the system with clean water.

Valve Modeling
Easily command complete control over pressure and flow with flexible valve configurations including pressure reducing, pressure sustaining, pressure breaking, flow control, and throttle control valves.

Use the general-purpose valve to simulate reduced pressure backflow preventers, well drawdown behavior, turbines, or any other device or situation with a unique headloss flow relationship.

Pump Simulation
With WaterCAD, you can handle a wide range of pumping configurations from the simplest to the most complex, even for systems with variable speed pumps and rule-based controls.

System Head Curves
Leveraging the power of the system head curve, rule-based controls, variable-speed pumping, and energy cost analysis features, WaterCAD provides the complete pump modeling solution from initial design and pump selection, to the optimization of operational inefficiencies and development and costing of effective control strategies.
Leakage & Sprinkler Modeling NEW


Use Flow Emitters to model fire sprinklers, irrigation systems, leakage, or any other situation in which the node demand varies in proportion to the pressure at the emitter node.