RESILIENCY RESOURCES

• SWAN Corner: What Does Resilience Really Look Like In A Water Utility?

  Ask a water utility what keeps them up at night and you'll usually hear two kinds of answers. There's the slow build — deteriorating infrastructure or underinvestment, for example — and then there are sudden impacts such as a main break or cyberattack. At the same time, utilities must balance competing needs among residents, industry, and the environment. These pressures often do not operate in isolation.
• Coastal Restoration Is In All Our Hands

  While on vacation, my tour group visited the Palo Seco Mangrove Reforestation Project, where we spent a morning planting mangrove seedlings as part of its coastal restoration program. As I lowered my seedling into a hole, it hit me: As a writer, I had covered coastal restoration projects many times, but this was the first time I was actually taking part in one.

• Everything You Know About MBR Has Changed

  The NXT|MBR pairs membrane treatment with durable shotcrete construction to reduce capital costs, streamline operations, and strengthen wastewater treatment resilience.

• How To Avoid Critical Mistakes With Emergency Blower Rentals

  Proactive contingency planning helps wastewater plants secure properly sized emergency blowers, avoid costly equipment mismatches, and restore aeration with less downtime.

• El Niño Intensifies: Collection Systems Should Prepare Now

  A strengthening El Niño raises the stakes for sewer and stormwater networks, making monitoring of rainfall, level, and flow before the first major storm a matter of readiness rather than reaction.

• Finding Leaks On Large Water Mains In Singapore Using Advanced Algorithms

  Physics-driven algorithms and refined data processing are changing how acoustic monitoring finds leaks on large transmission mains, and standardized performance metrics are changing how utilities judge whether those systems work.

• Virginia Beach Shuts The Door On Tidal Flooding

  When heavy rain meets high tide, tidal creeks have no room left to drain. Engineered storage, built from sealed gates and advance pumping, tests a different answer to coastal flooding.

• How NMED Is Combating Statewide Water Loss Using Innovative Technology

  Field-verified results from the first year of New Mexico's leak detection effort show how remote sensing can reach utilities serving fewer than 20,000 people, and what it found.

• Solving The Digital Dilemma In Modern Water Operations

  Managed services can help water utilities control digital complexity, address cybersecurity and obsolescence risks, and turn connected infrastructure data into actionable operational insights.

• After The Fire: What The 2026 Wildfires And El Niño Could Mean For U.S. Lakes And Reservoirs In 2027

  In July, smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across the upper Midwest and Northeast. Now a strengthening El Niño is set to influence the coming winter. Both events matter to lake and reservoir managers because their effects on water quality will continue to emerge long after the skies clear or the El Niño passes.