Water Online Highlights
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Putting The Squeeze In Sponge Cities: Amsterdam's Waternet And The Innovative RESILIO Blue-Green Roof Project
4/8/2024
The RESILIO project has helped Amsterdam repurpose rooftops as smart blue-green roofs to reuse rainwater and prevent localized flooding. This project, along with other sustainable water initiatives like the Amsterdam Rainproof program, continues to position the Netherlands at the forefront of water management.
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Consor Engineers: Simulating Sophisticated Pump Flows In A Closed System
4/8/2024
To provide reliable water delivery for the industrial and irrigation customers in Ferndale, WA, 100 miles north of Seattle, the Public Utility District No. 1 of Whatcom County (PUD) tasked Consor Engineers, a water and transportation infrastructure consulting firm, with conducting hydraulic modeling simulations to assess its current industrial water system and select new high head service pumps for a proposed new water treatment plant.
- What Is The Impact Of Climate Change On Stormwater Modeling, And How Can Water Professionals Prepare? 4/8/2024
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Turning Your Data Into Decisions By Creating A Data Culture Inside Your Water Utility
4/7/2024
Aging infrastructure, climate change, and the need to balance growth and conservation present challenges for water utilities. Technology promises to remake operations and deliver industry-changing improvements, and indeed many utilities already use updated remote sensing and monitoring tools to measure consumption, flow, and pressure.
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Cybersecurity Toolkit For Water Utilities To Adopt CISA, FBI, And EPA Guidance
4/7/2024
Utilities can shore up their defenses against cyberattacks with effective internal employee policies and procedures, but it can be harder to accomplish if your workforce relies on older or outdated software and devices without access to the latest firmware updates.
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Are You Sometimes Afraid To Update Your Software? What We've Done With InfoWorks ICM To Make It Stress-Free
4/7/2024
Does the phrase “software update” make you quiver with fear and frustration? We get it. Having to take time out of your day to load new versions of software doesn’t top the list of anyone’s goals and accomplishments. But there are some very good reasons to update your hydraulic modeling software.
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Creating A Data-Driven Culture In Your Water Utility With Low-Code And No-Code Analytics
4/7/2024
Water infrastructure, like treatment plants or networks, can generate lots of data. But is it useful information? How can captured data become actionable knowledge for planning, crisis management, and problem solving across organizations?
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Scaling And Sharing Domain Knowledge Inside Your Water Utility With Analytic Templates
4/7/2024
Discover how water utilities can benefit from using analytic templates to scale and share domain knowledge, allowing for customized workflows, collaboration, and actionable reports based on real-time data.
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Unseen Infrastructure: The Underground Networks That Keep The World Turning
4/7/2024
In this article, read about the importance of unseen water infrastructure and the need for investment and maintenance. Explore the processes and challenges involved in delivering clean water and managing wastewater.
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How Spreadsheets Lock Drainage Designers Into Formulaic Cells
4/6/2024
Using spreadsheets for drainage design has limitations and drawbacks. Specialized drainage design software offers more advanced features, accuracy, and efficiency. Spreadsheets can still be used for data storage and transportation.