Idaho's Third Largest City Chooses MWH Soft Advanced Geospatial Technology

Comprehensive Evaluation Confirms Superiority of InfoWater and InfoSewer ArcGIS-Centric Modeling Solutions for Water Distribution and Sewer Collection Systems

Broomfield, Colorado USA, December 8, 2004 - MWH Soft, Inc., a leading global provider of water resources applications software, today announced that the City of Idaho Falls, the state of Idaho's third largest city, has chosen MWH Soft's InfoWater and InfoSewer software as the foundation for developing a comprehensive ArcGIS-centric (ESRI, Redlands, CA) solution for modeling and managing its drinking water infrastructure and sanitary sewer collection system. The selection substantiates MWH Soft's leadership position in geospatial hydraulic infrastructure management in the North American market.

The City of Idaho Falls' decision to standardize on InfoWater and InfoSewer technology followed an in-depth survey and evaluation of GIS-based modeling software packages. The process included presentations by software vendor representatives to key decision makers from the City's public utilities department. The accelerated adoption rate of MWH Soft geospatial technology reflects a powerful trend among water and wastewater utilities and progressive engineering firms toward choosing MWH Soft products for their unparalleled GIS integration capabilities, interoperability, ease of use, and comprehensive set of solutions.

Built atop ArcGIS with native geodatabase support, InfoWater and InfoSewer offer a single comprehensive, GIS-centric solution for analyzing and managing the most complex water distribution and sewer collections systems. A seamlessly integrated geospatial framework applies GIS intelligence to engineering-accurate information, coupled with the most advanced numerical computation, genetic algorithm optimization and object-component geospatial technologies in the marketplace. The resulting centralized, multi-function system enables world-record performance, scalability, reliability, functionality and flexibility within the powerful ArcGIS environment, completely eliminating the need for inefficient, unreliable data synchronization, synching schemes, or middlelink interfaces required by other software. These factors and more translate to increased productivity, reduced costs, greater efficiency, and improved designs - giving water and wastewater utilities a clear competitive advantage.

"Increasingly, water and wastewater utilities and engineering organizations worldwide are relying on MWH Soft superior geospatial technology in deploying rigorous, high performance GIS-centric modeling and optimization systems," said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, President and COO of MWH Soft. "No other solution offers such a powerful combination of functionality, GIS integration, speed, stability, and ease of use for better decision making and more economical operations. Our company is committed to helping our industry shift to this new GIS-centric hydraulic infrastructure modeling and management paradigm."

"MWH Soft offers the most comprehensive selection of ArcGIS-centric hydraulic modeling and management solutions in the water and wastewater industries," said J. Erick Heath, P.E., Vice President of Sales and Client Relations at MWH Soft. "These critical tools are designed to help our customers do their jobs better, faster and at less cost. We're proud to know that our InfoWater and InfoSewer solutions will be helping the City of Idaho Falls build a foundation for success in the decades to come."

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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