Utility Management Solutions

  1. Droughts, Pandemics, Recessions, And More: How Machine Learning Can Help Water Utilities Prepare 6/13/2022

    Learn about some of the situations that can cause extreme changes in water usage patterns and how machine learning can help water utilities adapt.

  2. 11,000 Liters Of Water To Make One Liter Of Milk? New Questions About The Freshwater Impact Of NZ Dairy Farming 6/6/2022

    Water scarcity and water pollution are increasingly critical global issues. Water scarcity is driven not only by shortages of water, but also by rendering water unusable through pollution. Over the past few decades, nutrient and sediment emissions into waterways have increased, driven by agricultural and horticultural intensification.

  3. Pollution Early-Warning Technology Chosen By Anglian Water 6/1/2022

    Anglian Water has become the first utility to adopt new cloud-based technology to detect rising main sewer bursts. The UK utility is implementing early-warning system BurstDetect, as part of its drive to eliminate serious pollution events in its region by 2025.

  4. Why Measuring Hydrogen Sulfide In Wastewater Matters 6/1/2022

    Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas in wastewater environments is a familiar concern. But waiting until its odor is detected can be too late to exert as much control over it as desired. Fortunately, a new ability to monitor H2S concentrations — in the liquid wastewater stream, in real time — is advantageous for wastewater professionals in terms of safety, cost, and consumer complaints. Here are four ways to capitalize on that capability.

  5. What It Means To Support Equitable State Investments In Water Infrastructure 6/1/2022

    The current federal and state system of water infrastructure funding is designed to improve the way we move, treat, or store water, wastewater, or stormwater. It’s not inherently designed to target disparities in infrastructure quality and service. Addressing these disparities requires reimagining the dominant ways water is funded in the United States. At the same time, the water investments coming through the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are already slated to flow through long-standing channels, so those who care about advancing equity must continue to innovate within this existing system.

  6. Gas vs. Liquid Measurement: A New Phase Of H2S Management 5/31/2022

    For many aspects of wastewater collection and treatment, there can be multiple routes to achieving desired results. In the case of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) measurement, an exclusive sensor that is equally accurate in liquid-phase and gas-phase measurements has created entirely new ways to assess hydrogen sulfide concerns. Here is how that offers wastewater professionals more cost-effective opportunities for measuring and managing their H2S issues.

  7. How Liquid-Phase H2S Monitoring Can Reduce WWTP Risk And Corrosion 5/30/2022

    At their best, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can include hostile environments. At worst, they can be deadly if workers are exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas that collects in confined spaces. Between those two extremes is a wide range of cost and performance circumstances that can be drastically impacted by accurately monitoring changes in wastewater composition that trigger fluctuating levels of hydrogen sulfide (H2S).

  8. Using Liquid-Phase H2S Measurement To Protect Sewer Networks And Workers 5/29/2022

    While the estimated service life of steel-reinforced concrete pipe carrying stormwater can be 100 years, sanitary sewer networks have a lot more working against them. Here are multiple considerations for using liquid-phase measurements to quantify hydrogen sulfide (H2S) concentrations more consistently, identify potential threats to worker health and infrastructure longevity, and support better strategies for mitigating those risks.

  9. Grim 2022 Drought Outlook For Western U.S. Offers Warnings For The Future As Climate Change Brings A Hotter, Thirstier Atmosphere 5/26/2022

    Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early 2020. The dryness has coincided with record-breaking wildfires, intense and long-lasting heat waves, low stream flows, and dwindling water supplies in reservoirs that millions of people across the region rely on. Heading into summer, the outlook is pretty grim.

  10. Bad News For The 2022 Hurricane Season: The Loop Current, A Fueler Of Monster Storms, Is Looking A Lot Like It Did In 2005, The Year Of Katrina 5/25/2022

    The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes. It’s called the Loop Current, and it’s the 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.