Comparison of outcomes through EPANET and LOOP softwares using a gravity flow water supply network at East Medinipur in West Bengal

Presently drinkable water supply to the residents of any rural area is met mostly from the ground-water sources. Many of the tubewells become dry during summer causing serious water crisis. The Public Health Engineering Directorate under Govt. of West Bengal decided to execute a scheme for withdrawing and delivering surface water from river Rupnarayan to supply drinkable water to the residents of Brindabanchak Gram Panchayat at Panskura-II block of East Medinipur district in West Bengal. In this study one of a command area zone of close piped network from the above mentioned scheme has been chosen. During the analysis, EPANET software was used. The entire network system consists about 364 numbers of pipes and 337 numbers of junctions. The results were also compared with the outcomes from a popular pipeline designing software LOOP. The obtained flow using EPANET and LOOP softwares had a similarity of around 96%. It suggests that by using either EPANET software or LOOP software the results could be adjusted for pipeline design purpose in future.