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IWA's Young Water Professionals Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, is sponsoring the International Water Association's (IWA) first Central and Eastern European Young Water Professionals Conference taking place here today and tomorrow. The conference provides a forum for young professionals and post-graduate researchers to present their work in advancing urban water supply and sanitation infrastructure.

To help these new infrastructure professionals increase their knowledge of innovative water network design and analysis techniques, Bentley is offering conference attendees free access this week to online versions of water resources textbooks published by Bentley Institute Press, including Advanced Water Distribution Modeling and Stormwater Conveyance Modeling and Design. The textbooks include extensive material written by international teams of experts from academia and consulting firms. In addition, Bentley is offering all water professionals free access to a selection of new instructor-led distance learning modules that are designed to let students and professionals experience the quality and depth of Bentley's distance learning opportunities.

"With the environmental challenges we face today, Bentley wants to ensure that these young water professionals have easy access to information that will help them efficiently and effectively improve water networks and infrastructure," said Slavco Velickov, water industry sales director at Bentley and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee at the Central and Eastern European YWP Conference. "By granting access to online textbooks that are recognized as the industry standard in reference works for water professionals, as well as to instructor-led distance learning modules, Bentley continues to help sustain the infrastructure professions."

Instructor-led distance learning is provided by the Bentley Institute, which develops and delivers learning programs that help busy infrastructure professionals stay competitive and increase their productivity. In the past year, the Bentley Institute has expanded its distance learning offerings to bring affordable, live instruction to desktops everywhere. This distance learning offering is powered by a dynamic combination of live audio and cutting-edge networking technology and delivered through a virtual classroom online.

About IWA
The International Water Association is a global network of water professionals, spanning the continuum between research and practice and covering all facets of the water cycle. Through IWA, members collaborate to promote the development and implementation of innovative and effective approaches to water management. The strength of IWA lies in the professional and geographic diversity of its membership – a global mosaic of member communities – including academic researchers and research centers, utilities, consultants, regulators, industrial water users, and water equipment manufacturers.

About Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators are indispensable in improving our world and our quality of life; the company's mission is to improve the performance of their projects and of the assets they design, build, and operate. Bentley sustains the infrastructure professions by helping to leverage information technology, learning, best practices, and global collaboration – and by promoting careers devoted to this crucial work.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,700 colleagues, offices in more than 50 countries, annual revenues surpassing $500M, and, since 1993, has invested more than $1B in research, development, and acquisitions. Nearly 90 percent of the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms are Bentley subscribers, and a 2008 Daratech study ranked Bentley as the world's #2 provider of geospatial software solutions.

SOURCE: Bentley Systems, Inc.