World's Third-Largest Water Company Deploys MWH Soft InfoWater to Optimize Capital and Operational Expenditures

Thames Water Implements InfoWater Suite to Achieve New Level of Water Infrastructure Management Efficiency

Broomfield, Colorado USA, November 10, 2004 - MWH Soft, a leading global provider of water resources applications software, today announced that Thames Water, the UK's largest water utility, has deployed multiple licenses of InfoWater Suite advanced geospatial technology. Thames Water will use InfoWater as the basis for developing a comprehensive modeling solution for maximizing the operational efficiency of its drinking water infrastructure and optimizing its capital improvement projects, enabling the utility to save costs and fund other service enhancements. The selection further underscores the undisputed standing of InfoWater Suite as the industry's premier geoengineering tool for modeling, optimizing, managing and securing hydraulic infrastructure systems.

The utility plans to dramatically raise productivity and efficiency by using InfoWater to rapidly develop optimal capital improvement and operational strategies that minimize costs while enhancing system reliability, integrity, and performance. RWE Thames Water, the world's third largest water utility based in Reading, serves in excess of 70 million customers in 20 countries as part of the RWE Group, a leading global provider of energy, gas, water and recycling products and services.

Unlike competing products, the innovative network modeling technology of the MWH Soft geospatial software suite addresses every facet of utility infrastructure management, optimization and protection - delivering the highest rate of return in the industry. Built atop ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA) and drawing on the most advanced numerical computation and genetic algorithms optimization technologies, it effortlessly reads GIS datasets; corrects network topology problems and data flaws; extracts pertinent modeling information; and automatically constructs, skeletonizes, loads, calibrates and generates optimized design, rehabilitation and pump scheduling solutions with astounding speed. The result is performance modeling that sets new levels of scalability, reliability, functionality and flexibility within the powerful ArcGIS environment. Using these advanced tools, utilities can easily simulate and evaluate various conditions, pinpoint system deficiencies, and determine the most cost-effective physical and operational improvements to maximize efficiency, achieve optimum performance and regulatory compliance, meet new security challenges, and enable more reliable operations.

"The powerful and unique genetic-algorithms optimization modules within InfoWater Suite are enabling us to achieve maximum savings in both capital and operational expenditure for our extensive UK-based water distribution system supplying over 7 million people, including the City of London," said Rob Casey, Network Analysis Manager for Thames Water and a leading European figure in hydraulic modeling. "The superior system improvement alternatives InfoWater identifies will help us enhance our quality of service. Over the long term, these tools will also reveal opportunities to operate and manage far more reliably and cost-effectively, forge closer ties with our customers, and help justify future endeavors."

"Our InfoWater software enables water utilities worldwide to move to a higher level of productivity and efficiency by helping them manage their energy consumption more effectively, improve overall operations, and quickly determine effective and economical design, rehabilitation, replacement, expansion, and enhancement solutions for maximum performance," said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, President and COO of MWH Soft. "It ranks as the fastest, most practical, comprehensive and accurate GIS-based water distribution optimization solution ever created for water engineers. We're very proud to know that MWH Soft solutions are in place at many of the world's largest and best-run utility companies, helping them meet their corporate and strategic goals and achieve world-class performance at breakthrough cost savings."

About MWH Soft 

MWH Soft is a leading global provider of technical and infrastructure software and professional solutions designed to meet the technological needs of utilities, government industries, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include the majority of the largest North American cities and ENR top design firms. The multifaceted, state-of-the-art CAD and GIS enabled products created by MWH Soft, empower thousands of engineers across the globe to competitively manage, design, and operate highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems. 

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