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The City Of Fayetteville's Flood Resiliency In The Face Of Climate Change: Mapping 15 Watersheds
4/9/2024
The city of Fayetteville, North Carolina has always had flooding issues, but it’s been getting worse as weather patterns have been changing. They were hit four years in a row by storms Matthew (2016), Irma (2017), Florence (2018), and Dorian (2019).
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How Engineers Can Help Prevent Catastrophic Flooding
4/8/2024
Severe weather events are some of the largest looming threats to civilization in the next many decades. The power of water is humbling, something that anyone who has ever been through a flood knows well. Floods can wreak havoc on urban communities, destroying homes, but also destroy environments, damaging wetlands and natural habitats.
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10 Reasons Water Professionals Choose InfoWorks ICM
4/8/2024
A few years ago, our product manager for storm sewer and flood products Sophia presented her 10 reasons for why InfoWorks ICM is her flood modelling package of choice. A fair bit of wonderful development has happened since then, so I would like to present the Top 10 in InfoWorks ICM – part 2.
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Optimal Industry Standards For Hydrant Maintenance
4/8/2024
With any waterworks device that will be buried in the ground for long periods, regularly exceeding 50+ years, proper maintenance is essential to ensure they perform as needed and fulfill their expected life. But unlike many of these devices, a fire hydrant that does not work when required can have grave consequences.
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Putting The Squeeze In Sponge Cities: Amsterdam's Waternet And The Innovative RESILIO Blue-Green Roof Project
4/8/2024
The RESILIO project has helped Amsterdam repurpose rooftops as smart blue-green roofs to reuse rainwater and prevent localized flooding. This project, along with other sustainable water initiatives like the Amsterdam Rainproof program, continues to position the Netherlands at the forefront of water management.
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Consor Engineers: Simulating Sophisticated Pump Flows In A Closed System
4/8/2024
To provide reliable water delivery for the industrial and irrigation customers in Ferndale, WA, 100 miles north of Seattle, the Public Utility District No. 1 of Whatcom County (PUD) tasked Consor Engineers, a water and transportation infrastructure consulting firm, with conducting hydraulic modeling simulations to assess its current industrial water system and select new high head service pumps for a proposed new water treatment plant.
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What Is The Impact Of Climate Change On Stormwater Modeling, And How Can Water Professionals Prepare?
4/8/2024
As the world’s climate continues to shift, the effects of extreme weather events are beginning to cascade through the modern civilized world. While topical discussions of the impacts of climate change often focus on significant natural disasters, there are other more gradual impacts to the way the world works that this shifting climate brings.
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Continuous Emission Monitoring In Practice
4/8/2024
Each country has laws and regulations for emission monitoring and control. On one hand, the demand is driven by increasing regulation and stricter enforcement, on the other - by public pressure on industries to operate sustainably.
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Turning Your Data Into Decisions By Creating A Data Culture Inside Your Water Utility
4/7/2024
Aging infrastructure, climate change, and the need to balance growth and conservation present challenges for water utilities. Technology promises to remake operations and deliver industry-changing improvements, and indeed many utilities already use updated remote sensing and monitoring tools to measure consumption, flow, and pressure.
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Cybersecurity Toolkit For Water Utilities To Adopt CISA, FBI, And EPA Guidance
4/7/2024
Utilities can shore up their defenses against cyberattacks with effective internal employee policies and procedures, but it can be harder to accomplish if your workforce relies on older or outdated software and devices without access to the latest firmware updates.