LATEST INSIGHTS ON DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION
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Pump Selection 101: Understanding Essential Criteria To Maximize Reliability And Efficiency
11/4/2020
Pump systems play a critical role in keeping our world in motion. However, specifying parties can often overlook opportunities to improve pump system reliability and efficiency. This can happen when designers or engineers fail to consider new demands placed on the system since installation or understand the benefits of available options.
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Big Remodeling Job At Gross Reservoir
10/20/2020
Next time you grumble about a big home maintenance project — say, changing out the gutters on your house — just remember it could be tougher. So much tougher.
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Using IoT-Based Tank Level Monitoring For Volume Measurement
9/22/2020
Level monitoring systems has successfully triumphed every implementation. Their deployments allow the users to measure the level of liquid stored in a container of any shape, size, orientation, or material. Powered with the advanced telemetric technology of Internet of Things, these systems measure liquid level without making any contact with the liquid and transmit the readings to a comprehensive platform suite.
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Maximizing The Benefits Of Plastic Pipe Prefabrication And Engineering
9/21/2020
Thermoplastic piping’s advantages are not limited to chemical-resistant properties alone. Before the first component is installed, plastic pipe engineering principles and prefabrication options create multiple cost and performance benefits. Water Online spoke with Brian LaBelle of GF Piping Systems to understand how water treatment facilities and OEMs can take greater advantage of the full breadth of plastic piping’s opportunities.
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WWEMA Window: Protecting Drinking Water Pipelines With Inflow Prevention
9/21/2020
A significant risk to public health exists when a drinking water distribution system is exposed to the inflow of contaminated water or toxins at air valve locations along the drinking water pipeline. While public drinking water systems are routinely protected from contamination at the points of service with backflow prevention devices, little attention has been paid to air valve and vent inflow locations in water pipeline vaults located throughout distribution systems.
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Key Insights From The Leading Global Smart Water Event
9/9/2020
The SWAN 10th Annual Conference welcomed 400+ attendees from 32 countries, including a record 64 unique utilities. Hosted virtually by SWAN, the Smart Water Networks Forum, this was the largest global smart water and wastewater event. On the 22nd and 23rd of July 2020, SWAN member Ovarro led two expert interactive roundtable sessions on “Leak detection at your desktop” and “How will you keep the water flowing in challenging times?” Below, we interviewed Ovarro about key takeaways from their discussions and how these insights can benefit the water sector.
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FERC Gives Final Federal Nod Of Approval For Gross Reservoir Expansion
7/20/2020
Project to raise dam will improve water reliability for more than 1.5 million people while benefiting the environment.
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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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To AMI Or Not To AMI? Lessons Learned From Deployment, And Steps To Success
7/15/2020
One of Europe’s leading water utilities shares five critical steps for successful deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
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Pipelines Into The Past
7/7/2020
Denver Water crews marvel at water lines from the 1880s as they are replaced to handle new demands.