About - WaterStrategy

USE CASES

Vulnerability & resilience

Vulnerability, risk and resilience analysis across your whole water resource system.

Stress-test your system against the conditions that matter most, before they happen.

Run long historic and stochastic inflow sequences to see when and where the system fails
Track reliability, resilience and vulnerability: how often shortfalls occur, how long they last and how severe they get
See how risk is shared across users: public supply, agriculture, energy and the environment

Intervention appraisal

Assess and optimize interventions — new infrastructure and policies — in water resource systems.

Test new infrastructure, operating rules and policies in the same digital twin, on a like-for-like basis.

Model supply- and demand-side options, from new reservoirs and transfers to demand management, and switch them on or off
Compare cost, yield and environmental performance side by side
Use EBSD and many-objective optimisation to find least-cost and best-performing portfolios

Climate adaptation

Climate change impact assessments and adaptation studies, evaluated against multiple futures.

Plan for a range of plausible futures rather than a single forecast.

Bring climate and hydrological projections into your model as scenarios
Combine them with demand growth and policy change to explore wide uncertainty
Identify robust, adaptive plans that stay effective as conditions change

FEATURES

Secure & shareable

Maintain and share models and their results in a secure and controlled way.

Keep models, data and results in one controlled, cloud-hosted place.

Nothing to install: work from any browser
Control who can view, edit or run each model and project
Share results and dashboards with stakeholders without handing over the underlying model

One common interface

Host operational and strategic planning tools together in a single, common interface.

Operational and strategic tools live side by side, built on the same data.

Pywr, EBSD and bespoke tools hosted in one platform
Map-based network building, data management, scenario runs and results in one workflow
A single source of truth, so every team works from the same system description

Advanced decisions

Apply advanced decision-making methods to compare options on the metrics that matter.

Move from single answers to a clear view of the trade-offs.

Many-objective evolutionary optimisation (MOEA) searches thousands of options for you
Interactive trade-off views show what you gain and give up between cost, reliability and environment
Transparent, repeatable evidence to support regulators, boards and stakeholders

MODELS & TOOLS

Different models and tools on one platform.

WaterStrategy allows to build, maintain, run, visualize, and share a range of models.

DEFAULT MODEL

Pywr

Leading open-source water resource system simulator. Build detailed, accurate, maintainable models for operational and infrastructure investment scenario analysis. Pywr is the default WaterStrategy model.

Learn about Pywr →

SUPPLY–DEMAND

EBSD

An aggregate annual supply-demand balance tool for least-cost water supply planning. If your utility uses safe yield or deployable output concepts, this UK industry-leading model is for you.

About EBSD guidelines →

BESPOKE