Utility Management Solutions
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Why Water Utilities Need A Leak Detection System
5/17/2024
An LDS leverages existing meters, sensors, and other instrumentation to more precisely pinpoint leak locations, saving time, money, and manpower spent scouring and searching.
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Modernizing Operational Maintenance At Treatment Plants
5/16/2024
In 2017, the Harford County Division of Water and Sewer began looking for a modern work management solution to help automate preventive maintenance, coordinate work activities between groups, manage material inventories, and capture important data.
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How GIS Improved Workflows For The Largest Municipal Utility In The U.S.
5/16/2024
Read how LADWP updated its workflows and enriched its management of data by implementing a new enterprise-wide GIS platform, based on Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise, as well as several apps.
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6 Ways Communities Are Streamlining Water & Wastewater Asset Lifecycle Management
5/16/2024
Here are just a few examples of innovative ways that communities are leveraging Trimble Cityworks, Esri, and partner solutions.
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Thirsty In Paradise: Water Crises Are A Growing Problem Across The Caribbean Islands
5/14/2024
In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind the images of balmy beaches and lush hotel grounds lies a crisis, the likes of which its residents have never experienced.
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Community-Led Initiative Aims To Enhance Equity In Grand Rapids Watershed Resilience
5/14/2024
Resilience can have many meanings, but for the communities facing increasing impacts of climate change, resilience is a way of planning for a safer and more prosperous future. The Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds (LGROW) has been an Urban Waters Federal Partnership (UWFP) location since 2011. As part of UWFP, LGROW works in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to understand, protect, and improve the natural resources of the Lower Grand River watershed for all to enjoy.
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As Climate Change Amplifies Urban Flooding, Here's How Communities Can Become 'Sponge Cities'
5/9/2024
Across the continental U.S., intense single-day precipitation events are growing more frequent, fueled by warming air that can hold increasing levels of moisture. Most recently, areas north of Houston received 12–20" of rain in several days in early May 2024, leading to swamped roads and evacuations. Events like these have sparked interest in so-called sponge cities — a comprehensive approach to urban flood mitigation that uses innovative landscape and drainage designs to reduce and slow down runoff, while allowing certain parts of the city to flood safely during extreme weather.
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Evansville Water & Sewer Utility: 4 Tactics For Managing & Organizing Vertical Assets
5/7/2024
EWSU, serving 65,000 customers, revamped its vertical asset tracking with POWER Engineers to enhance maintenance workflows. Here's how they optimized their processes.
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Helping The 8th Largest Water & Wastewater Utility In The U.S. Save $330K/Year
5/7/2024
Discover how the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission revolutionized project efficiency with e-Builder's capital construction software, saving time and costs while streamlining processes.
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Maximizing e-Builder To Reduce Review Times
5/7/2024
Discover how the Miami-Dade Water & Sewer Department (WASD) streamlined their project evaluation with e-Builder, saving time and enhancing project documentation reliability.