Wastewater Instrumentation Resources

  1. State-Of-The-Art Wastewater Analysis Systems Will Be Key To Guarding Public Health In The Future 1/12/2022

    Wastewater is suddenly an important source for data and insight for solving problems beyond the scope of traditional water management.

  2. Understanding The Impact Of Smart Water 1/5/2022

    To appreciate the impact of smart water solutions — Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning — one must first identify some of the main challenges involved in water and wastewater network monitoring, as well as the benefits of real-time, proactive versus traditional, reactive approaches. This impact is intertwined by economic, social, and environmental dimensions, which are best enabled through industry collaboration.

  3. SWAN Corner: Wastewater Components Guide Sewer Investigations 12/14/2021

    Extraneous water in the wastewater network is likely to increase as the climate change progresses. Wastewater components can offer key information for water utilities for prioritizing network inspections and renovations, such as CCTV and manhole cover inspections. At the same time, calculating wastewater components out of pumping stations data is a valuable example of how water utilities can extract concrete insights from large data sets.

  4. 9 Benefits Of IoT-Based Water-Level Monitoring 11/1/2021

    With the dearth of quality source water a major and worsening issue for utilities and industry, water-level monitoring is paramount for successful operations — as is stepping up to IoT technology.

  5. The Future Of Wastewater: Why Has The U.S. Been So Slow To Adopt AI Tools? 11/1/2021

    Wastewater analytics are already being used around the world to monitor contamination, optimize treatment processes, and catch environmental scofflaws. So why has the U.S. been so slow to adopt these technologies?

  6. Why It's Smart To Increase Your Sewer Network Monitoring 10/25/2021

    Effectively managing hundreds of thousands of miles of sewer network is not an enviable task. And with ever changing industry regulation, stricter statutory targets, additional compliance, and a growing abundance of technology, that task could easily be regarded as insurmountable. How can you ever know exactly what’s going on throughout your entire network? It’s impossible. Or is it?

  7. SWAN Corner: Distributed Monitoring Unlocks The Value Of Data, Delivers Quality And Accuracy 10/25/2021

    Raw sewage enters our rivers, lakes, and oceans at an alarming volume and frequency. This is a problem faced around the world. In some locations, great strides are being made to tackle this through infrastructure investment, often as a result of public and regulatory pressure, and because we all know that we need to do better.

  8. Detecting COVID-19 Early Via Wastewater Surveillance 10/25/2021

    Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is the analysis of wastewater to identify the presence of biologicals or chemicals for the purpose of monitoring public health. It can provide a snapshot of entire communities from one sample. Detecting viral diseases by way of wastewater monitoring is nothing new, it’s been known for decades that viral particles can be detected in human feces. WBE has previously been used to detect the presence of pharmaceutical or industrial waste, drugs, viruses, and potential emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In Israel, a wastewater surveillance program for monitoring polio outbreaks has been successfully running since 1989.

  9. Math Solutions Explained: Converting To Gallons Per Minute 9/23/2021

    This presentation will focus on converting and expressing flow rate gallons in minutes, converted from flow rate gallons in hours.

  10. SWAN Corner: Creating And Implementing A Smart Industrial Monitoring Network And Advanced Data Analytics At The City of Memphis 9/2/2021

    The City of Memphis teamed with Brown and Caldwell to pilot a smart sensor network where water-quality monitors could be installed directly at permitted discharge points for five of the largest industrial users. The pilot project also served as a proof-of-concept project for the City to assess the feasibility of making a paradigm shift to digital water-quality monitoring as a long-term solution.