Why eWaterCycle

Hydrological modeling is essential for understanding and managing water systems, but it suffers from major challenges: fragmented tools, lack of reproducibility, limited interoperability, and barriers to collaboration. Scientists often struggle to share, compare, or reproduce model-based results. There was a clear need for a modern platform that supports transparent, reproducible, and collaborative hydrological research.

eWaterCycle has been developed to take away programming and compatibility issues within hydrological modelling. It is designed in a FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable) way. Many models use different input/outputs formats, making interoperability hard. Different models use different programming languages. This is what eWaterCycle changes. It utilizes the Basic Model Interface (BMI) to improve interoperability between all the models we support currently.