Introduction to Water Utility Network Foundation

Water Utility Network Foundation can be used to accelerate water utility network implementations.

Water utilities play a crucial role in providing reliable and safe drinking water to communities. To ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of their networks, utilities need to have a comprehensive understanding of their water assets. This knowledge is essential for minimizing outage times and enhancing network reliability.

The first and most important step in managing a water network is creating an inventory of all the assets involved. Without knowing the location and information about these assets, it becomes challenging for utilities to effectively plan improvements and optimize their network operations. By representing this asset inventory as a utility network, organizations can leverage the power of advanced analytics, network tracing, and digital twin technology.

The Water Utility Network Foundation solution delivers a set of capabilities that help water utilities model their assets in ArcGIS, accelerate a utility network implementation, and efficiently manage their networks.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Water Utility Network Foundation requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 3.3

Note:

To deploy this solution, you must have an ArcGIS organizational account. After deploying the solution, you can download it from your organization and begin using it in ArcGIS Pro.

Information products

Water Utility Network Foundation includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Water Utility Network Essentials	A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project package, asset type map, Utility Data Management Support toolbox, style files, data dictionaries, and an essentials asset package geodatabase with sample data.	Professional
Water Utility Network Expanded	A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project package, asset type map, Utility Data Management Support toolbox, style files, data dictionaries, and an expanded asset package geodatabase with sample data.	Professional

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
2.1 (Aug 2024)	The following updates have been made to the Utility Data Management Support toolbox version 3.3.1: An issue was resolved with the Simple Data Mapping tool that was caused by running the tool in a cloned python environment. A new option to generate a terminal pop-up was added to the Configure UN Layers tool to visualize terminal information. A new tool was added called Copy Fields and Domains From Mapping which uses the Data Mapping workbook to copy fields from the source workspace to the target asset package.
2.0 (June 2024)	The solution name has been changed from Water Distribution Utility Network Foundation to Water Utility Network Foundation. The solution now includes the Water Utility Network Essentials ArcGIS Pro project with a fundamental schema. The Water Distribution Utility Network Foundation ArcGIS Pro project has been renamed to Water Utility Network Expanded. The Utility Data Management Support toolbox has been updated to support ArcGIS Pro 3.3. The Water Utility Network Expanded asset package now includes the following enhancements: Editor tracking fields have been updated for consistency across solutions. Subnetwork summaries and associated fields have been removed to improve performance of Update Subnetwork. The domain values for the Lifecycle_Status, Lifecycle_Combined, and Construction_Status domains have been updated for consistency between Utility Network foundations. The domain for field cptraceability has been changed from Yes_No to CP_Traceability for WaterDevice, WaterJunction, and WaterLine so that appropriate values can be assigned. The normalstatus and presentstatus fields were unassigned from Flushing and Blowoff because these are not valves you would monitor status on. All terminals that were previously Pipe Bidirectional Dual Terminal were changed to Pipe Directional Dual Terminal with the exception of Isolation Zone, DMA, and Anode Bed. This change was made to better represent the terminal configurations of the device. The asset type Well has been moved to its own asset group called Well. This change was made to allow field definitions and cartographic options at the subtype layer. Service Laterals were removed from aggregated lines on all tiers to reduce the complexity of the aggregated geometry and increase performance.
1.3 (Mar 2023)	A new Utility Data Management Support toolbox to support ArcGIS Pro 2.9 and ArcGIS Pro 3.1.
1.2 (Nov 2021)	Name changed from Water Distribution Data Management for ArcGIS Enterprise to Water Distribution Utility Network Foundation.
1.1 (Jun 2021)	ManageIsDirty setting has been changed to false for all subnetworks to improve performance in editing and validation.
1.0 (Nov 2020)	The first release of Water Distribution Data Management for ArcGIS Enterprise. The data model in the solution has been updated to version 4. For a full list of updates, refer to the change log.