WATER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

WIMS HydroGeology Edition

The ultimate in affordable, cloud-based groundwater information management systems designed to consolidate and securely store data and optimise data management in order to accommodate and accelerate HydroGeo project workflow! WIMS’ project- and client-based design is ideal for consultants.

THE FUTURE STARTS HERE

WIMS is the future in user-friendly, integrated mine and municipality water information database systems, offering water accounting with reporting. WIMS can store and report on mine water, groundwater and water quality, all in an integrated database, which is available online in real-time. Built on value engineering principles, WIMS is a powerful tool available in modules to allow expandable functionality. Ideal to integrate your water data across multiple projects, clients and spatial locations.

WIMS PUTS YOU IN CONTROL

With WIMS your data belongs to you! After your original and new data is secured and validated, you remain in control of your data. Secure, accurate and accessible data with dynamic reporting capabilities - WIMS is a game changer and will exceed your water management expectations.

Ask yourself this: Do I currently trust the integrity of my data?

HIGHER LEVEL OF INSIGHT

A particular advantage that is unique in WIMS, is that time varying data like graphs and tables can be viewed together with spatial intelligent plots (e.g. bubble plots of TDS on maps), which provides the analyst with a higher level of insight.

EASE OF USE

WIMS has a user-friendly interface for data input and generation of output graphs, tables and maps. The remote, real-time data capture onto the WIMS App ensures practicality and mobility for technicians.

NEW FUNCTIONALITY

WIMS now has the capability to accommodate more than one spatial coordinate system, which is useful to handle historical and current borehole data sets. The expanded functionality to store data for angled wells and holes is a great step forward to accommodate all your mine dewatering and hydrogeological data in one system.

UNLOCK THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE

The quality of your data and reporting results not only implicates your business’ ability to accurately and proactively make decisions but also directly affects your bottom line. WIMS allows you to have all the data available anywhere, anytime with multi-dimensional reporting capabilities.

Your business simply cannot afford to make decisions based on faulty data reports. Doing so would be like taking action based on fake news, which could result in mayor damaging long-term consequences.

When the stakes are high, multiple departments, companies and the community are involved. Misinformation can lead to negative publicity, which could do irreversible damage and create animosity between all parties concerned. Accurate data that is auditable and referenceable restore trust, steering projects toward a positive outcome to the benefit of all parties.

WIMS gives you the precise water data solution you need to succeed, and puts the power back in your hands.

In hydrological and hydrogeological consulting, large data sets are gathered across multiple projects and clients. This data consists of numerous different types of complex data sets that have temporal and spatial relations. WIMS has proven itself as a powerful unique solution able to take the load off your shoulders.

Seamless integration with Excel makes WIMS’ import and export capabilities second to none on a secure platform. This not only guarantees long-term data integrity, but also data intelligence, quality assurance and control over your data.

Hydrogeological professionals sell knowledge, which are captured and transmitted via technical reports. Automation and optimisation of this process not only saves money and valuable resources, but in terms of insight and proactive decision-making, it also makes your data worth more than gold.

Mines, municipalities etc. are required by environmental legislation to monitor surface water and groundwater quantity (flows), water levels and water quality parameters. This data usually ends up in spreadsheets or informal database systems. Masses of data is generated annually by mining houses and other institutions on site, and surrounding environs water quantity and quality.

The quality of the water resource data consultants have to analyse and process is directly linked and usually limited by the availability and quality of the data. WIMS has built-in data quality checks.

Consultants, that have to analyse this data, are paid far more to retrieve the data every time there is a project than it costs your business to sign up for a WIMS license. At $20/month for the groundwater module WIMSHydro (boreholes, water levels, water quality, spatial data) and $9000/year for the full WIMS, which can store and report on the complete mine water balance flows and water quality data, the numbers speak for themselves. The cost of one inorganic chemical analysis is in the order of $120. A full WIMS license is equal to the cost of only 75 chemical analyses. This is equal to the chemical analysis of one sampling run at a medium-sized mining operation.

WIMS also has the ability to produce analytical data tables, graphs and reports. The ability to produce multi-parameter transient trend graphs, on the same page as a spatially intelligent plots, makes interpretation faster and more efficient.

Customisation and automation of data tables, graphs and spatial plots based on statistical data analysis add immense value in the workflow, saving time and valuable human resources.

Functionality for powerful data analytics and reports exist, but can also be expanded to mine large data sets in order to gain deep insight and knowledge. For e.g. the Tshiping Project (www.tshiping.co.za) where more than 4600 boreholes are based in two quaternary catchments, across hundreds of farms and multiple mines.

WIMS can link to LAB and SCADA systems to make data available. With the ability to customise and autogenerate reports companies can unlock exceptional value-adds in terms of time and effort (i.e. money) savings.

The journey from Data to Information to Knowledge, is a journey on which management decisions are based. With regards to water management, this journey can be facilitated and housed in WIMSHydro as part of a system process that can be partially automated and effectively accelerated. The data is usually analysed in numerous spreadsheets and stored in various locations. The problem is that the data in these sheets are neither relational nor checked for quality. WIMS as a virtual data warehouse and interpretation system can be used to make large data sets instantly available from numerous projects.

This is extremely useful for mining clients as their data is usually based at consultants, so they repeatedly end up paying for data retrieval and analysis.

From the consultant’s perspective it is time saving and valuable to relate all data from past and new projects. As qualified professionals typically only stay an average of 3-5 years at a company, WIMS serves as an institutional memory. WIMS saves time and money not only on historical data and projects, but also in relation between comprehensive and diverse projects.

There is currently no known integrated and dynamic mine water focused water data system that can compete with WIMS as it has the ability to accommodate and report on water data sites across numerous water use types (i.e. boreholes/wells, springs, rivers, dams, mine sections etc) that relates temporal and spatial data in custom graphs and maps.

Data Equity

Do you realise the value of your (historical) water management data? Data costs a lot of money to collect e.g. a typical mine can spent $50 000/year on chemical analyses alone. When this data is stored on spreadsheets, the retrieval of the data could cost as much as the collection and analysis, if it is not lost altogether. Spending <10% of the data collection and analysis budget on a reliable, relational and reference-able data storage system like WIMS is a cost-effective investment and not an expense.

Private & Confidential Data

Your data is securely stored and is accessible online at all times. As an accountability partner, WIMS would like you to know that your data is confidential, secure and cannot be lost.

WIMS QA & QC

WIMS is a data-intelligent system and features QAQC abilities to minimise data input errors e.g.

Data can be imported directly from Lab LIMS systems
Build-in QAQC checks, so that e.g. a pH of >14 cannot be read in etc.

WIMS Data Importing & Transferring Capabilities

Masses of data is accessible and can be imported from or exported to Excel, either in a step-by-step process or from a WIMS template. This is important from a consultant’s viewpoint, because you do not want your data locked in a system until it is completely understood. WIMS also allows the flexibility to further analyse data and interpret data by working in Excel.

Water does not respect property boundaries. WIMS can accommodate catchment and sub-catchment spatial zoning. The benefits associated with water conservation and demand management that can be done based on the WIMS data is invaluable from a direct cost, social and environmental capital perspective.

In addition to the data stored for environmental reporting purposes, the WIMS data system can also store and integrate water quality data for health & safety and risk management purposes.

WIMS is excellent as a data warehouse, meaning it is suitable for multiple water users or impactors (which is often the case) to use simultaneously. Surface and groundwater do not respect property boundaries and therefore water resources have to be managed in an integrated way. Tshiping Water Users Association, where groundwater data is accommodated in more than 4600 boreholes, across hundreds of farms and tens of mines over two quaternary catchments, spanning rainfall and water level data from 1950, is a good example of the complex abilities of WIMS.

Simply put, WIMS is the only way to manage water as a regional critical social resource.

Knowledge about water resources can not only save on capital but can also save lives. In developing countries where water is not only scarce but can be easily contaminated (around 45 000 children die each month in the DRC because of water borne diseases e.g. cholera).

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