Utility Management Solutions

  1. Modernizing U.S. Water Utilities: A Data-Driven Imperative 4/15/2025
    The U.S. water utility sector stands at a critical juncture, facing a confluence of challenges that demand innovative and strategic responses. Aging infrastructure, escalating operational costs, and the persistence of data silos are placing immense pressure on these essential service providers. To navigate this complex landscape and ensure the continued delivery of safe and reliable water services, a fundamental shift towards proactive, data-driven approaches is not just beneficial but essential.
  2. America Confronts Urgent Water Infrastructure Needs 4/15/2025
    The focus on water is extreme in almost every state in America. The most critical issues tend to be water resources, aging water treatment plants, flood control, aging dam structures, and leaking water pipelines. These types of projects are usually expensive, but the good news is that there is still federal funding available.
  3. Cybersecurity Defense In The Water Industry: 3 Steps Utilities Can Take Now 4/14/2025
    Cybersecurity has been in the news in recent years. Steep ransomware demands. Stolen identities, credentials, and intellectual property. And major disruptions to operations around the world. Water and wastewater utilities need to know that they are targets. But some utilities mistakenly think these cyber threats won't impact them.
  4. Why Dig When You Don't Need To? A Non-Invasive Pipe Condition Assessment Licensing Solutions For Water Utilities 4/2/2025

    Discover why the City of Juneau chose to license ePulse, an acoustic velocity (AV) testing technology by Echologics, to non-invasively provide critical condition assessment information and simultaneously check for leaks using their own utility staff to collect field data. 

  5. Oregon City Finds Improved Customer Service With The Aclara RF Network 3/31/2025

    Redmond’s water utility previously relied on contracted meter readers to manually report water meter data once a month. Using this outdated monthly system, the city was obtaining inconsistent information that did not allow the utility to effectively answer customer questions.

  6. Is The State Revolving Fund In Jeopardy? 3/31/2025
    For decades, the State Revolving Fund (SRF) has served as a crucial financial backbone for water infrastructure projects across the U.S., providing low-interest loans to states and municipalities to maintain and improve drinking water and wastewater systems. However, recent executive actions from the Trump administration have raised concerns that even long-standing and widely supported programs like the SRF could face fundamental changes, or even outright repeal.
  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. Integrating Multiple Strategies To Optimize Water Use And Minimize Losses 3/25/2025

    This white paper will explore a three-pronged approach to handling non-revenue water, helping utilities to manage costs and maintain a healthy water delivery ecosystem.

  9. From Source To Tap: Promoting Home Water Testing Year-Round 3/25/2025
    Water specialists do their best to ensure safe drinking water for people nationwide. Despite their diligence in monitoring and treating wastewater at municipal facilities, some households are still susceptible to contamination. Encouraging homeowners to regularly test their own water during the year will help pinpoint missed hazards and provide an additional safeguard.
  10. Who Should Own Your Water? The Public vs. Private Utility Debate 3/24/2025
    For decades, policymakers, industry experts, and communities have debated whether water utilities should be publicly or privately owned. Proponents of private water management argue that market-driven efficiencies can lead to better service and infrastructure investment, while advocates for public utilities emphasize the need for affordability, transparency, and public accountability.