Arcadis’ Sustainable Cities Water Index reviews 50 cities around the globe across a string of sustainability measures such as water efficiency, water resiliency and water quality. As Chris Hill, Vice President of Water Supply and Treatment Lead for North America, explains in this Water Online Radio interview, the U.S. cities perform well in the areas of water quality and water efficiency but tend to lag European communities in the area of...  Continue Reading..

Born out of UCLA and the California Inner Systems Institute, Water Planet is focused on revolutionizing water reuse through next generation membrane technology. As Erik Hoek, CEO of Water Planet, explains in this Water Online Radio interview, the company has two core technologies.  Continue Reading..

NSF International tests and certifies water systems, including treatment chemicals and large municipal water treatment products. Since the 1990s, NSF has been testing faucets and other plumbing products to ensure that they’re not contributing excessive levels of lead or any other contaminant to drinking water.  Continue Reading..

When repairing a pipe break, a utility has three main considerations. The first is to get water flowing through customers taps again as soon as possible. The second is to do so safely protecting the utility’s workers. And the third is to ensure that the fix lasts.  Continue Reading..

Solving the problem of non-revenue water starts with leak detection. Many utilities live with leaks because of the time, labor, and expense involved in detecting, prioritizing and fixing them.    Continue Reading..

As a utility, you likely have a variety of sources of data from SCADA and metering systems to customer service and maintenance logs. As Josh Stroessner, Business Development Manager with Cityworks explains in this Water Online Radio interview, being able to sort all of that disparate data from different systems into a single asset management solution provides lots of benefits.  Continue Reading..

The Water Research Foundation is a research cooperative of water and wastewater utilities across the U.S., Canada, and Australia that studies the issues that are important to them. Water Online Radio recently interviewed Rob Renner, CEO of the Water Research Foundation, to learn more about that focus.  Continue Reading..

Two-thirds of water or wastewater utility assets are buried beneath the ground. And after years of discussion regarding the age of this infrastructure, a number of reflection points are finally drawing the nation’s focus to distribution systems. A combination of the Flint, MI, scandal, water scarcity concerns and high-profile main breaks are forcing utilities to look carefully at what they’ve been sitting on.  Continue Reading..

In a world that is increasingly focused on measurement, many smaller utilities are looking for low-cost, economical, easy to apply solutions that aren’t going to require a huge capital investment. Water Online Radio recently sat down with Don Dickinson and Dave Eifert of Phoenix Contact USA to understand some of the simple, low-end, easy-to-program devices available today that allow your staff to communicate via text messages, receive...  Continue Reading..

Water treatment plants are responsible for sampling their water quarterly for trihalomethanes (THM). THM are a group of four chemicals that are formed along with other disinfection byproducts (DBPs) when chlorine or other disinfectants used to control microbial contaminants in drinking water react with naturally occurring organic and inorganic matter in water.  Continue Reading..