Wastewater Measurement Resources

  1. Igudan's Water Reuse System Saves Millions In Irrigation Costs 7/13/2023

    Learn how a WWTP overcame the challenge of encountering unidentified wastewater events from unknown sources that impact its processes.

  2. How To Approach Cybersecurity With Confidence 7/1/2019

    As digitalization continues to grow in the water and wastewater industry, cybersecurity becomes an increasingly important responsibility.

  3. Santa Barbara Strengthens Field Data Collection With A New Mobile GIS Workflow 11/12/2020

    The City of Santa Barbara, California, located roughly 90 miles north of Los Angeles, supplies water to approximately 95,000 residents. Given California's proneness to droughts, state water suppliers face operational challenges surrounding conservation, water-loss prevention, and system maintenance.

  4. Smart Utility: Building A Foundation for Artificial Intelligence 9/4/2018

    With data comes decision-making power, but how each utility wields that power will be different. The Smart Utility approach tailors digital capabilities to arrive at specific and optimal outcomes.

  5. The Benefits Of A Venturi Meter 2/19/2014

    With the introduction of new measurement technologies and the myriad of performance claims from sale literature, it’s easy to lose sight of the important elements that an effective flow meter offers no matter what technology is used. Long known for their longevity, reliability, and long term performance, Venturi meters provide the widest variety of measurement options in piped systems for liquids, gas, steam, and mixed media of any metering technology – all while offering the highest degree of traceable accuracy. By Primary Flow Signal, Inc.

  6. SCADA Cybersecurity: What Every Water Utility Should Do Now To Prevent An Attack 4/29/2014

    Danger isn’t always obvious. Often the worst threats are the ones that go undetected— until they strike. 

  7. UV Treatment Upgrades In Wales 8/26/2025

    In order to improve the treatment performance (because of the continued cost to maintain compliance), and ensure that it would eventually have the treatment capacity to meet future population growth equivalent of up to 225,000, Swansea WwTW was in need of an equipment upgrade.

  8. WWEMA Window: The Basics Of SCADA Troubleshooting 7/15/2016

    Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are easily classified as one of the greatest data acquisition methods to have ever been invented.

  9. Calibrating Success: Improved Tools To Maintain Flowmeter Accuracy 7/10/2019

    Water utilities with highly successful monitoring programs tend to share a common trait: they have a well-defined plan for calibration that emphasizes frequency and tracking. However, when done properly, this process is time-consuming and often leads to unnecessary labor and downtime. The good news is that advanced metering technology is available for plants to get a better handle on the instrument’s performance with significantly less effort.

  10. Automation 101: The 7 Habits Of Highly Automatable Systems 11/13/2015

    When we automate, we are really just mechanizing individual tasks, controlling that task with some form of computerization, and linking those tasks together in what is called system integration.