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Dear Utility Management Professional:

At MWH Soft, we're always seeking out new ways to enhance your business by sharing our information, knowledge and experience. Now I'm pleased to introduce you to the latest example of that effort: our new quarterly publication, Modeler's Bulletin™.

Modeler's Bulletin™ has been designed to give you a fast, clear-cut view of how MWH Soft products can make your business more efficient and profitable. We'll also give you a look at how fellow utility professionals around the world are using MWH Soft tools to plan better systems, improve operations, maximize resources and save money.

Modeler's Bulletin™ will also feature advance information on our newest releases … invaluable tips on getting the most from your MWH Soft products … heads-up notice of upcoming events and important developments in our field … and more.

At MWH Soft, we've earned our leadership position in the industry by listening to you and understanding how your system - and your business - work. In this new publication, as in all our undertakings, we value your opinion and welcome your comments.

Very truly yours,

Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D

Volume 8 Features:

MWH Soft Expands its "Club MWH Soft" Membership Benefits
Membership in Club MWH Soft offers significant new compelling benefits to subscribers worldwide.

Feature Focus: Network Review and Fix Tool
Discover how to quickly identify and automatically correct any hydraulic network topology/connectivity problems and data flaws that may arise from digitizing a model or building it using pre-existing GIS and CAD datasets.

MWH Soft 5^th Annual Users Meetings in Australia and New Zealand Bring Together Leading Consulting Firms and Progressive Utilities to Explore the Latest Industry and Technology Trends - Huge Success!
The Fifth Annual Users Meetings in Australia and New Zealand received great reviews from participants. Attendance was at capacity with a remarkable group of professionals including water utility engineers, consultants, managers, operators, and GIS/IT specialists came to share their knowledge and experience.

Product Showcase - H₂ONET Makes History with New World Modeling Performance Record For Denver Water
Read how Denver Water has built and calibrated a detailed 136,377 all-pipe hydraulic model from GIS to improve modeling accuracy and optimize decision making.

Client Showcase - Modeling in Action
Discover how Eastern Municipal Water District has used H₂OMAP to develop one of the industry's most comprehensive Water Facilities Master Plans.

Customer Solutions - H₂OMAP Water and Sewer Surpass All Expectations
Find out how H₂OMAP Water and Sewer set the record for speed of successful enterprise GIS modeling at Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities.

New Product Spotlight: InfoSWMM for ArcGIS Poised to Dominate Municipal Stormwater Management
InfoSWMM merges GIS and advanced hydraulic, hydrologic and water quality modeling and is the world's first true ArcGIS-centric municipal stormwater management software.

New Software Release: MWH Soft and Avtex Enable World's First Real-Time Modeling and Alert Solution
Companies' interoperable solutions provide an unprecedented emergency response and notification solution that helps water utilities save lives and property, shorten response time, effectively manage disasters, improve customer satisfaction, and save money.

Prestigious Civil Engineering Schools Integrate MWH Soft Technology into Curriculum
Top ranked Clarkson University and Colorado State University are training their undergraduate students in advanced hydraulic infrastructure modeling.

New Books from MWH Soft Press
MWH Soft publishing division, MWH Soft Press, released two state-of-the-art references on water and sewer systems modeling and management.

MWH Soft and AWWA Signs Strategic Book Reseller Agreement
MWH Soft's premier "Comprehensive Water Distribution Systems Analysis Handbook For Engineers and Planners" now available at AWWA bookstore.

2004 MWH Soft Academic Awards for Achievement in Water Resources Engineering Education
Seven prominent academics received in 2004 the prestigious MWH Soft Excellence in Engineering Education Award in recognition of their outstanding contributions to water resources engineering education.

Prestigious Student Scholarship Program Goes Live to Honor Outstanding Engineering Projects
New student scholarship program recognizes important engineering projects in the field of water resources engineering.

Welcoming New Business Partners
A warm welcome to the many progressive engineering and technology firms that have recently joined our elite Business Partner Program.

MWH Soft in The News - MWH Soft President Paul Boulos Elected to Serve on National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Water Science and Technology Committee
Learn how the National Academy of Sciences is working with the USEPA to improve the nation's water supply and protect public health.

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In our upcoming bulletins, our Engineering Department will be providing useful modeling tips and hints on how to use unique and powerful features of our products and keeping you up-to-date with the latest in technology, recent innovations and developments, product updates, important seminars and events, and feature enhancements. A key objective of the Modeler’s Bulletin™ is to help our users improve proficiency and gain efficiency in using our products.

The Modeler’s Bulletin™ will also highlight case studies involving innovative technology applications from consulting firms and utilities worldwide. Learn how organizations across the globe are using our products effectively and advancing the state-of-the-art in our industry.

We welcome tips and showcases of special application projects from our users, and would be happy to consider them for publication in future issues.

We invite you to submit an extended abstract (short article) for possible inclusion in upcoming issues of the widely circulated Modeler's Bulletin™– offering best-of-breed solutions for today’s MWH Soft users. Don't let your groundbreaking work go unnoticed - Let the Modeler’s Bulletin™ spotlight your case studies involving innovative practical modeling/technology applications so that you can share your vast experience and expertise with professional engineers worldwide, and be recognized by your peers. We welcome your valuable articles on current trends, future developments/standards, and practical applications in water distribution and sanitary sewer technology, and would be happy to consider them for publication in future issues.

Don't miss this great opportunity. Further your career, help your peers, and make an important contribution to the knowledge base of the drinking water and wastewater industries.