Enhancement of Water Supply System Through GIS

The Geographical Information System (GIS) is an important technology for water supply system. This study mainly concentrated on developing a GIS based system water supply system which can provide equal distribution of water and effective decision making for management.
This paper describes a project to integrate EPANET and Arcview to assist emergency managers in assessing public water supplies. The integrated system is called PipelineNet. This system calculates, locates, and maps the population at risk from the introduction of contaminants to the public water supply. The EPANET toolkit allowed Arcview to utilize the EPANET engine to route a contaminant through the system under extended period simulation. The new system would improve the efficiency and accuracy of the data retrieval, mapping and analysis. This paper is an extensive overview of the recent applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the water resources engineering.