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-epanet base code
+The EPANET Library is a pressurized pipe network hydraulic and water quality analysis toolkit written in C. 
 
 __Note:__ This is not the "official" release of EPANET -- for that, please go to [the USEPA website](http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/wswrd/dw/epanet.html).