Wastewater Measurement Resources

51. Smart Networks Are The Answer. What's The Question? 2/23/2016

    Water utilities around the globe face the same challenges: increasing population, urbanization, and more frequent extreme weather events. New supply to meet increasing demand is very expensive. Changing customer behavior to reduce demand is very difficult. The question is how to get more from existing infrastructure.

52. 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.

53. The Trick To Managing Vertical Assets 11/29/2021

    We get asked all the time; “Do you do vertical assets?”  I always respond with: “Of course we do, but what do you want to do with vertical assets?”  And that is where the discovery begins…

54. Navigating Through Uncharted Waters: How SFPUC's Wastewater Enterprise Stepped In To Help With COVID Monitoring 3/7/2022

    On February 25, 2020, Mayor London N. Breed declared a local emergency. The legal document put into action the mobilization of City resources, accelerated emergency planning, and staffing to prepare in the event that COVID-19 appeared in the community. Ryan Batjiaka, a Resource Recovery Specialist for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) recalls what it was like the first few days after receiving the news.

55. Forward-Thinking Utility Knows The Value Of Advanced Technology 5/4/2023
    Renewable Water Resources looks to remote alarm notification software to improve efficiency and avert problems.
56. Shortcut The Nitrogen Removal Process In Wastewater With UV Sensors 1/22/2014

    Nitrite, long disregarded as an insignificant intermediate in the wastewater nitrification process, has recently gained prominence. Research and practice has identified nitrite as the critical variable in newly-developed treatment processes that utilize shortcuts in the nitrogen cycle to more efficiently remove nitrogen from wastewater. By Patrick Higgins

57. Big Sky, Montana Water District Enhances Operations With Xylem 1/10/2023

    Discover how smart technology helped a Montana utility advance leak detection and customer service goals. 

58. SWAN Corner: Unlock Data To Improve Water Distribution System Operations 7/14/2021

    Water distribution system infrastructures are designed to deliver drinking water to end users, but utilities are continually faced with distinct challenges to fulfill this fundamental objective. For example, these utilities improve customer service by delivering water with high pressure, but on the other hand, water conservation policies push them to minimize water distribution leaks. For this reason, water utilities invest heavily in SCADA and telemetry technologies to support operational decisions. However, unlocking historical operational data and fusing it with other data (such as billing information from AMR/AMI networks) to generate actionable insights has proven difficult.

59. The Future Of Pipeline Renewal 11/30/2015

    Where is your utility when it comes to water and sewer management? Leading municipalities are using GIS tools to provide direction.

60. Automation 101: Open Loop Control 12/8/2014

    There is no argument that automation can be very expensive and that we have a fiduciary responsibility to our clients to provide the most economical solution possible. Every output, every input, every facet of your automation design will cost you something. There are no free rides, not even for us. But in our zest for cost savings, in our endless quest to make bricks without straw, we can quite easily short change ourselves.