ACE Innovation
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Testing The (Storm)Waters
3/7/2024
Heavy rains in California prove the worthiness of the "sponge city" concept.
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Free Will And Cybersecurity
11/3/2023
Even with federal regulations mandating action for municipal water and wastewater systems unfinished, the commitment to protect the public should compel utilities to improve cybersecurity.
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Water Pros Remain Optimistic Despite Mounting Challenges
7/7/2023
As they have for each of the last 20 years, AWWA published its State of the Water Industry Report recently, revealing the current concerns of drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater professionals. The annual survey typically reveals plenty of year-over-year consistency, but this moment feels different.
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Badger Meter Experts Available To Discuss Intelligent Water Management At ACE23
6/2/2023
Badger Meter, a global innovator of flow measurement, water quality and control products, offers a broad suite of smart water solutions that help utilities capture revenue, reduce costs, mitigate risk, improve customer satisfaction, optimize assets and enhance sustainability.
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Calling On Utilities To Combat Legionella
5/5/2022
The risk level linked to delivered drinking water from municipal utilities is very small, even if some high-profile examples of failure (see Flint, MI) have degraded public confidence to a degree. Our treatment professionals usually hit their targets, so the onus then shifts to the research and guidance that determines the safe level of various constituents through U.S. EPA protocols. But there is one contaminant that rulemaking hasn’t quite caught up to and which is downright deadly — Legionella pneumophila.
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The Shape Of Water, Starring AWWA’s Tracy Mehan
7/6/2021
If water-industry superstars were celebrated like entertainers, an introduction to G. Tracy Mehan III wouldn’t be necessary. But water, as industry veterans know, doesn’t quite get the attention it deserves … until services are threatened. At that point, as all along, we turn to our water leaders for answers.
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Pride And Joy: Water Leadership Defined
3/8/2021
Despite overseeing our most precious resource, water professionals often go unnoticed, and hence unappreciated. To that end, it’s my pleasure to highlight the efforts, accomplishments, and insights of industry leaders such as Joy Eldredge, chair of the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association.
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Partnership For Safe Water Going Strong At 25
11/10/2020
A quarter-century into its existence, the program started by six prestigious water groups to honor the highest achieving drinking water utilities continues to grow and evolve.
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AWWA Lights The Way
7/15/2020
It’s been a helluva year, and we’re barely halfway through it.
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Utilities Pass The Ultimate Test
5/12/2020
The water and wastewater industry proved its resilient and essential nature in the face of a world crisis.