Utility Management Solutions

  1. CAD Is Dead; BIM Is The Future 5/10/2022

    Let’s walk through how engineering firms and asset owners are using BIM in real life to improve their business position – using an imaginary interview of a forward-thinking Civil Engineer at a design expo:

  2. Leasing Is The Key To Smart Financial Management For Your Water System 5/9/2022

    With each passing year, America’s 2.2 million miles of water pipes and related equipment get older, more fragile, and less reliable. According to a recent Infrastructure Report Card issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers, water main breaks occur so frequently in the U.S. that about 6 billion gallons of water are lost each day — enough to fill more than 9,000 swimming pools. It’s no surprise that America’s infrastructure scored a C- on the report card.

  3. How IoT Could Open The Floodgates To Innovative Water Management Projects 5/5/2022

    As the water industry continues to adopt more high-tech and data-centric solutions, it is important to consider the communications infrastructure that supports such investments

  4. Lean Techniques Can Help Improve Water and Wastewater Operations 5/5/2022

    All the rage in the private sector, ‘lean’ principles — smoothing out processes to remove non-value-add parts — can also bring greater efficiency to utility operations.

  5. 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.

  6. Cybersecurity: A Marathon, Not A Sprint 5/5/2022

    To become more resilient against increasing cyber threats, water and wastewater utilities should employ a multibarrier approach.

  7. 4 Keys To Adopting Industry 4.0 At Your Water Processing Facility 5/5/2022

    As the water industry continues to walk the road of digital transformation, here’s a step-by-step guide to help utilities keep pace.

  8. The Labor Shortage: Examining The What, Why, And How Behind An Ever-Growing Problem 5/4/2022

    Dr. Rachel Sederberg didn’t mince words when describing the seriousness of the labor shortage in the United States. It’s long been a problem, and now it’s getting (much) worse. When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in February of 2020, there were 7 million job openings and 5.9 million unemployed people in the U.S. Two years into the pandemic, the statistics paint a dire picture of the workforce landscape as it stands presently.

  9. Utility Identifies More Than $250,000 In Recoverable Revenue Using Data-Driven Meter Replacement Program 5/4/2022

    The City of Fort Wayne turns to Xylem Revenue Locator by evaluating the effectiveness of their existing meter replacement program to more accurately identify underperforming meters, reduce water loss, and identify recoverable revenue.

  10. It’s Time To Put Water On The Main Stage 5/3/2022

    During the pandemic, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released the 2021 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. Of the 17 categories, three were dedicated to water. Drinking Water, Stormwater, and Wastewater received grades of C-, D, and D+, respectively. ASCE’s accompanying Failure to Act study summarized that by 2029, funding for the three combined categories needed to be $1.045 trillion. As a reminder, $611 billion is currently funded, leaving a gap of $434 billion. The recent Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) helped that gap a little more, with $55 billion in funding. Unfortunately, that still leaves a gap of $379 billion in additional funding needed by 2029.