MAGNET4WATER empowers users to investigate, design, and simulate water systems anywhere on Earthâinstantly and interactively. Built for scientists, engineers, planners, decision-makers, and engaged citizens, the platform adapts to your scale, context, and expertise.
Whether diagnosing a watershed, designing urban infrastructure, or analyzing groundwater flow, users begin with a robust global foundation and refine from there.
Users can zoom in anywhere to build watershed models, simulate aquifer dynamics, or design urban drainage systemsâeach with automated calibration, volumetric analysis, and real-time visualization.
At its core is a distributed spatial and stress frameworkâa multiscale, preprocessed representation of global water systems. This framework supports instant model generation and is continuously enriched by live telemetry networks that monitor the pulse and health of water systems across regions.
These real-time data streamsâfrom national and international monitoring programsâprovide the backbone for calibration, validation, and adaptive refinement.
The result is a living global base model that evolves through both top-down data integration and bottom-up user contributions. As the base improves, users can do more with lessâstarting from a ready-to-run default and customizing only where needed.
Before simulation begins, there must be clarity. MAGNET4WATER provides immersive, layered visualization to help users understand the structure, drivers, and dynamics of any water systemâbefore assumptions are made.
In minutes, users can create a fused 3D view of any location, integrating:
This is your virtual site visitâa way to see the unseen, understand spatial relationships, and identify key patterns. Itâs accessible to experts and novices alike, and serves as a launchpad for deeper modeling.
Understanding a water system is not a one-time taskâitâs a process. MAGNET4WATER supports an iterative modeling journey that begins with data fusion and evolves through simulation, calibration, and refinement.
Simulation is not the endâitâs a tool to test, quantify, and evolve understanding. And as the global base model improves, your starting point becomes more accurate, reducing setup time and increasing insight.
This foundation now flows naturally into the next sections: Watershed Modeling, Groundwater Modeling, and Urban System Modelingâeach showcasing how MAGNET turns conceptual understanding into dynamic, scalable simulation.
MAGNET4WATER transforms watershed modeling into a dynamic, data-driven process. Users can zoom in anywhere on Earth, draw a box, and generate a fully integrated watershed model in minutes. But the real power of MAGNET lies in what follows:
Time to explore. Time to calibrate. Time to understand how todayâs choices ripple into tomorrow.
Every watershed model begins with a robust foundationâMAGNETâs global base model, built from high-resolution datasets including:
Users donât waste time wrangling inputs. Instead, they start with a ready-to-run simulation and focus on what matters:
Whether modeling a single subwatershed or an entire basin, users can simulate:
MAGNET doesnât just simulateâit helps users see how systems behave, connect, and evolve. The Sankey Chart is a signature outcome: a living, visual map of watershed intelligence.
It reveals:
As users refine their modelsâadding local data, adjusting assumptions, or testing interventionsâthe Sankey Chart evolves with them. It becomes a diagnostic lens, a design tool, and a storytelling engine.
MAGNET doesnât constrain. It unlocks.
This is modeling that adapts to real-world complexityâand helps users make sense of it.
MAGNET4WATER turns watershed modeling into a platform for discovery and design:
This is watershed intelligenceârevealing how systems evolve, connect, and respond under pressure. It empowers users to explore outcomes, test strategies, and guide decisions with clarity, confidence, and care.
After exploring the surface and watershed-scale dynamics, MAGNET4WATER invites users to look deeperâinto the subsurface systems that sustain, store, and silently shape our water future.
Groundwater systems are complex, hidden, and vital.
This platform brings them into viewâallowing users to simulate, visualize, and manage groundwater flow and quality with clarity, control, and confidence.
In minutes, users can:
Models are nested and hierarchical, enabling seamless transitions across:
This flexibility supports everything from basin-wide planning to source water protection, contaminated site characterization, and remediation strategy evaluation. Users can assess aquifer vulnerability, design monitoring networks, and simulate the impacts of water withdrawals, land use change, and climate variabilityâall within a unified modeling environment.
MAGNET also enables users to optimize water use patterns, evaluate conservation strategies, and explore how groundwater availability shifts under stress. Whether you're managing a regional supply or investigating a legacy plume, MAGNET adapts to your scale and purpose.
MAGNETâs groundwater models are calibrated using a blend of:
Calibration is not a black boxâitâs transparent, iterative, and user-guided. MAGNET empowers users to test assumptions, refine structure, and align models with observed reality.
Groundwater modeling in MAGNET is not just about flowâitâs about understanding the role of the subsurface in the broader water system:
This is where users move from simulation to insightârevealing vulnerabilities, testing interventions, and guiding decisions that protect groundwater for generations.
MAGNET4WATER brings transparency, flexibility, and depth to subsurface modeling:
This is groundwater intelligenceârevealing the invisible, connecting it to the visible, and empowering users to protect what lies beneath.
Urban water systems are where complexity meets urgency. Flooding, contamination, infrastructure stress, and equity challenges converge in citiesâand MAGNET4WATER brings clarity, control, and creativity to the heart of it.
This is where real-time design and simulation become essential. Cities evolve fast. MAGNET helps users respond faster.
MAGNETâs LEGO-style interface lets users design urban water systems with intuitive precision. In a georeferenced environment enriched by high-resolution elevation and soil data, users can:
Whether designing a new neighborhood or retrofitting legacy infrastructure, users can simulate:
This flexibility supports everything from greenfield planning to emergency response, climate adaptation, and equity-focused infrastructure upgrades.
MAGNET supports full-spectrum green infrastructure design and analysis, including:
Users can evaluate:
Designs can be tested under real-world stressorsârevealing how nature-inspired solutions reshape urban hydrology and improve resilience.
MAGNETâs Sankey Chart brings urban water systems to lifeâshowing how water moves, transforms, and connects across infrastructure, green spaces, and natural pathways.
It reveals:
As users iterate on their designs, the Sankey Chart evolvesâoffering a dynamic, visual diagnosis of system health, resilience, and impact.
MAGNET adapts to local realities. Users can:
Whether evaluating green infrastructure performance, wet weather loading, or urban water quality, MAGNET helps users move from concept to clarityâquickly and collaboratively.
This is urban water modeling that feels like buildingâand works like simulation. Itâs interactive, adaptive, and grounded in both data and design logic.
MAGNET4WATER brings real-time intelligence to urban water systems:
This is urban water intelligenceâdesigned for the pace, pressure, and promise of cities.