LATEST INSIGHTS ON DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION
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New Pumping Station In Washington Provides Continuous Water Service
4/29/2022
Times have changed in Washington state’s Skagit County, perched just 25 miles south of the Canadian border. Skagit County, which extends across 1,920 square miles, maintains one of the largest and most diverse agricultural communities west of the Cascade mountain range. Over 90 different crops are grown in this fertile valley, including blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, tulips, daffodils, pickling cucumbers, and specialty potatoes.
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AMI Adoption: Challenges And Opportunities For Local Water Providers In California
4/22/2022
Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is particularly impactful in drought prone areas, incentivizing water conservation and alerting both service providers and consumers to possible leaks in real time. Researchers at UC Berkeley have used FirmoGraphs’ database of meeting minutes and capital improvement plans to analyze recent trends in AMI adoption among California drinking water agencies.
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Seizing The Water Infrastructure Moment Nationally And Locally
4/19/2022
The recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act holds promise to address them via an infusion of more than $57 billion to states and localities over the next five years, but more federal funding alone will not solve everything. Federal, state, and local leaders are in a crucial implementation phase to figure out what types of priorities and projects they are going to act on.
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EPA Researchers Share Approaches To Identify Lead Service Lines
3/16/2022
Lead is one of the most challenging contaminants affecting our drinking water. Lead can enter drinking water from a variety of plumbing materials installed prior to its ban. The most common sources of lead in drinking water are old lead service lines, lead-containing faucets, other lead-containing plumbing fixtures and leaded solder joints.
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Milestone: More Than 10,000 Lead Service Lines Replaced
3/8/2022
Digging up 10,308 old lead service lines and replacing them with copper lines sounds like an arduous task. Especially considering it was achieved in about 522 working days — and done during a global pandemic. But that description doesn’t even scratch the surface of all that is involved.
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Save Time, Energy, And Cost With A Well Clean-Out
2/14/2022
The growing water scarcity in the western United States has led to an increased dependency on groundwater from wells. With regulatory pressure on groundwater, such as California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), and the increased cost associated with the energy required to extract water, it is a good time to discuss the efficiency of wells.
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How Cities Leverage Machine Learning To Expedite Lead Service Line Removal
2/10/2022
An interview with Kristin Epstein, PE, Assistant Director of Department of Water and Sewer (Trenton Water Works), City of Trenton, New Jersey.
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Pressure Transients And Water Conservation In A Time Of Drought
1/12/2022
With water supply at a premium and pipelines deteriorating, drinking water utilities must do all they can to preserve their existing assets.
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What’s Next: Replacing The Nation’s Lead Pipes Through Policy And Innovation
12/14/2021
Someday, we may point to 2021 as the beginning of the end of lead pipes in this country, a problem that was largely created a century ago when they were installed to carry our drinking water. President Biden began 2021 with a focus on replacing 100 percent of the nation’s lead pipes, declaring that all Americans deserve clean drinking water.
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How Acoustic Leak-Sensing And Data Analytics Can Save Billions Of Gallons Of Water
11/1/2021
Failing infrastructure and water scarcity are two major issues for U.S. water utilities. One technology could help mitigate both problems.