Product(s):	WaterSight
Version(s):	10.00.
Area:	Documentation

Overview

WaterSight offers a comprehensive Capital Planning module that allows the user to prioritize pipes for different actions, such as those more priority for rehabilitation. For the identification of the priority pipes, two different approaches can be applied within the application:

• User driven approach: user is responsible to define the key aspects that can drive pipe prioritization, including the way they should be scored. Scores can be defined based on national regulators guidance or other benchmarking with other utilities, based on some empirical/operator experience, or other internal defined rules.
• Data driven approach: user is responsible to define the key aspects that can drive pipe prioritization, however the solution automatically scores each pipe based on some statistical analysis and linear interpolation methods;

Workflow - How to start

Aspects can be created and scored using flexible and customizable rules or using more automated algorithms as explained above. Those aspects and scores are created against the available dataset that can include  model results statistics or pipe attributes (based on a pipe shapefile). The general workflow includes:

• (1) the definition of the key aspects or criteria (more information in the Likelihood and Consequence of Failure calculation help pages)
• (2) calculating the score for each key aspect (more information in the Likelihood and Consequence of Failure calculation help pages)
• (3) and define a multi-criteria decision ranking system to support pipe prioritization and that should be aligned with the utility strategic goals (more information in the Editing a Cumulative help page)

See also

Likelihood of Failure

Consequence of Failure

Editing a Cumulative

Creating aspects using a data driven approach

Creating aspects with a user driven approach

OpenFlows WaterSight TechNotes and FAQ's