What is Urban Developer?
Urban Developer is an integrated urban water cycle modelling (IUWM) tool designed to meet the needs of water professionals facing the challenges of integrated water cycle service planning and assessment arising from the ever-increasing pressures on Australia’s water resources.
Urban Developer is available as a plugin for eWater Source. The Urban Developer Plugin allows urban water cycle modelling to be integrated within Source's whole-of-river-system modelling framework.
Urban Developer Scope
Urban Developer allows exploration of urban water systems in a level of detail and with a degree of flexibility not offered by existing integrated models.
Urban Developer provides the ability to simulate all three urban water cycle service networks (water supply, stormwater, wastewater), ranging in scale from a single allotment up to large clusters or small subdivisions.
Contents
Navigating the User Guide
The Urban Developer Plugin User Guide contains two parts:
- Urban Scenarios: describes how to create, configuration and run an urban water systems model
- Linked River System Scenarios: describes how to integrate an Urban Scenario with Source schematic or catchment Scenarios.
The Urban Developer Plugin User Guide assumes that readers are familiar with the eWater Source modelling framework.
Acknowledgements
This material has been adapted from:
eWater Cooperative Research Centre (2011) Urban Developer User Guide: Urban Developer v1.0.0, eWater Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra, 29 June 2011. ISBN 978-1-921543-40-1