Water Online Highlights

  1. 5 Questions Utility Leaders Must Ask About Their AMI Strategy 5/12/2026

    By asking these five questions, water utilities can move beyond basic AMI connectivity toward a model of total operational control.

  2. Reaching Utility-Grade AMI Without Compromise: How Utilities Can Remove Barriers To High-Performance Networks 5/11/2026

    Overcome the financial and operational barriers to high-performance AMI by exploring how specialized network architecture and service-based delivery models eliminate risk. Learn how to achieve prioritized communication, long-term resilience, and total operational control without upfront costs.

  3. Paradise Regained: How Digital Twins Saved A Bahamian Resort's Water Supply 5/8/2026

    Island utilities face unique resource constraints and infrastructure risks. Implementing digital twins provides the real-time visibility needed to reduce water loss, simulate emergency scenarios, and optimize system performance to ensure long-term operational resilience.

  4. Why Reliability Matters In Wastewater Treatment  5/7/2026

    Reliability in aeration is vital for maintaining compliance and reducing emergency costs. By choosing the right blower technology and support system, plants ensure consistent treatment quality, lower energy use, and long-term operational stability.

  5. What The Impending "Super El Niño" Means For Water Utilities 5/7/2026

    According to new reports, the odds for a record-breaking “Super El Niño” in 2026 are rising greatly. With extreme weather in some parts of the world and water scarcity in others, water utilities are gearing up to shoulder the burden.

  6. Brine Valorization — The Future Of Desalination 5/7/2026
    Brine valorization plants are the next step in the evolution of desalination technology which opens a new horizon for wider use of desalination as a baseline source of drought-proof and environmentally and fiscally sustainable water supply.
  7. Why Energy Efficiency Is The Quietest Form Of Risk Management 5/7/2026
    For the better part of a decade, industrial electricity prices behaved like a slowly shifting floor. From 2016 through 2020, wholesale prices in most major markets were remarkably stable. A plant built in 2018 could reasonably expect its electricity costs to drift, not lurch, through the early 2020s. That baseline is gone.
  8. Reservoir Service Preserved During Emergency Leak Repair 5/6/2026

    Discover how utility operators resolved a critical emergency main leak in just one day, using under-pressure valve insertion to isolate the break without draining the regional reservoir or interrupting water service to the community.

  9. Hydrant And Valve Replacement Project Preserved Service Without Major Shutdown 5/6/2026

    Discover how a utility eliminated a massive 17-valve shutdown in a high-pressure downtown corridor by installing an inline insertion valve in under two hours, protecting continuous service to critical public facilities.

  10. Adding A Control Point In A Busy Intersection Without Disruption 5/6/2026

    Discover how a municipal water department installed an 8-inch control valve at a busy intersection in one day, protecting a nearby gas main and maintaining continuous service to medical offices and a local school.