Wastewater Measurement Resources

  1. The Drive Towards Digital Transformation 11/25/2019

    It seems that everywhere that you go in the water industry at the current time, somebody is talking about digital transformation…or if we go back five minutes, it was Water 4.0…and 10 minutes ago (it seems), it was “smart water.” These are all very well used buzzwords that the industry is destined to think about for a short-term and then promptly forget about. In reality, though, we as an industry have been hit by a number of different concepts for a number of different technological aspects for a good number of years now. For almost as long we have had a term for all of this — “widgets.”

  2. Harnessing The Power Of GIS To Improve Customer Service 4/1/2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has rewritten the way businesses and organizations operate and serve their customers, and utility districts are no exception. White House Utility District (WHUD), Tennessee's largest water and wastewater provider in terms of geographic area served, is a case in point.

  3. Predictive Problem Solving With Analytics 2/9/2021

    Data generation has exploded in recent years. In fact, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone, and estimates predict that the Worldwide Big Data market will double in the next several years.

  4. Best Practices For Flow Meter Calibration 4/18/2016

    Get to know the basics, best practices, and importance of flow meter calibration from an industry expert.

  5. Smart Antenna Technology For AMI 11/9/2020

    When several years of drought subsided and water restrictions were lifted this spring for the city of Round Rock, Texas, residents quickly returned to their pre-drought usage patterns — and as they watered their lawns, filled their pools and used water the way they had before the drought, their monthly bills began to rise.

  6. How Dekalb County Efficiently And Accurately Models Rain-Derived Inflow And Infiltration 12/17/2021

    Taking into account the effects of stormwater runoff and water meter flow, Dekalb Watershed Management partnered with Jacobs Engineering to calibrate the wet weather flows in Dekalb County’s collection system model.

  7. SWAN Corner: How Artificial Intelligence Can Mitigate Water Workforce Issues 8/9/2021

    The loss of expert know-how, already a problem for years, has been made worse due to the pandemic. A network of expertise, optimized by artificial intelligence, may be the way to get ahead of the problem.

  8. Navigating Through Uncharted Waters, Part Two: How Peter Ng Is Giving Back To His Community 3/21/2022

    In Part Two of Navigating Through Uncharted Waters, we caught up with Peter Ng, a Wastewater Technician who continues to help get wastewater samples for Covid research. At the beginning of the pandemic, Ng was tapped to be a Disaster Service Worker for the City and County of San Francisco helping to deliver food to the vulnerable population as well as be a translator to senior citizens. As Ng explains, this was something he was always meant to do.

  9. BPM Of Things: Secure Your Success In Digital Transformation 8/31/2017

    Business process management (BPM) has proven extremely successful in managing both gradual and radical improvements in the industry and various business functions. While digitization brings incredible new opportunities, it also brings the distinctive challenge of correctly positioning and scoping BPM in organizations.

  10. The Eaton M-Max VFD Provides QuantumFlo With A Cost-Effective, Energy Efficient Solution 4/26/2017

    Achieving consistent water pressure is a challenge for geographical areas that have grown faster than the development of infrastructures to accommodate water demand and for businesses such as fast food restaurants and strip malls.