Regulation Updates For Utility Management

1. Scanning The Snow From The Sky 6/4/2025
   If you want to know about the snow, the sky is the limit when it comes to collecting data about the mountain snowpack.
2. Design Smarter, Operate Cheaper: The New Lifecycle Mindset For Pump And Lift Stations 5/27/2025

   Part 5 of the Get Pumped Up series brings it all together with a bold but practical shift: treating pump and lift station design as a living process, not a one-time deliverable.

3. The Pump Curve Doesn't Lie: What SCADA Data Reveals About Real-World Performance 5/27/2025

   In Part 4 of the Get Pumped Up series, the focus shifts from planning to performance—with a clear message: pump inefficiencies aren’t always due to failure, but to how (and where) pumps are operating.

4. How To Right-Size Your Lift Station Without The 6-Month Wait 5/27/2025

   In Part 3 of the Get Pumped Up series, the spotlight is on speed: how utilities can identify and solve lift station inefficiencies without waiting six months for a redesign study.

5. Forget 25-Year Master Plans: It's Time To Rethink Capital Planning For Pump And Lift Stations 5/27/2025

   In Part 2 of the Get Pumped Up series, explore the hidden flaw in traditional infrastructure planning: it’s too slow for today’s dynamic conditions.

6. There's A Way To Solve The Cybersecurity Problem In Water 5/26/2025

   The water sector needs to embrace a cloud-based approach to cybersecurity that includes continuous monitoring and rapid incident response, all of which offers layered resilience beyond the “air gap.”

7. Addressing Water Treatment Challenges: Technology Access Limitations By Small, Rural Water Utilities 3/31/2025

   With aging infrastructures, lean and limited personnel, lower budgets, and less accessible, often remote locations, smaller and rural water treatment plants are challenged in maintaining operations while understanding new and important technologies in improving contaminant removal in water treatment. 

8. Star Attraction: Leading The Next Generation To Water 3/11/2025
   The winner of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) Rising Star award, Tom Bowman of Metasphere reflects on the challenges on skills and recruitment facing the water sector in this Q&A, and calls for greater mentoring and apprenticeship schemes to attract a fresh wave of talent to the sector.
9. Keeping Wastewater Facilities Running During A Power Outage 3/10/2025

   Power outages aren’t just a headache for wastewater treatment plants—they’re a direct threat to operations, compliance, and public health.

10. Cybersecurity: Defend Your Data To Reap The Rewards Of Going Digital 2/27/2025

    Unlike traditional IT environments that are regularly upgraded, factories can operate with legacy systems that weren’t designed to cope with evolving security threats. Integrating new digital technologies with this existing infrastructure can create complex security landscapes, making vulnerabilities difficult to identify and guard against.