UTILITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

• Beyond Water-Stress Scores: Assessing Infrastructure Resilience At The Asset Level

  Water-stress screening can identify where an infrastructure asset deserves closer attention. Assessing resilience requires further steps: understanding the asset’s water profile, the reliability and security of its supply, the pressure it places on local resources, and whether adaptation can keep it operational and economically viable over time.

• Colorado River Conservation Depends On The Delivery System

  The Department of the Interior issued the 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines, calling for Lower Basin deliveries to drop by 1.25 million acre-feet annually in 2027 and 2028, with a minimum of 700,000 acre-feet of additional voluntary conservation over those two years. While temporary reductions are a start, water districts and water professionals should also consider delivery upgrades and on-farm improvements in agricultural areas that prepare growers for a new reality with less water.

• Illegal Wastewater Discharges And The Importance Of Organics Monitoring In Municipal Sewer Networks

  Unpredictable industrial dumping overloads municipal wastewater treatment systems, driving up utility costs. Continuous inline monitoring provides real-time visibility into shifting organic loads, enabling collection teams to catch contamination spikes early and protect downstream biological processes.

• Why Water Utilities Need Better Asset History, Not Just More Maintenance Data

  For water and wastewater utilities, better asset history is not about collecting more data for its own sake. It’s about making existing inspection and maintenance information useful enough to support reliability, maintenance prioritization, capital planning, and long-term service delivery.

• The Cost Of Waiting: Utilities Face A Narrowing PFAS Compliance Window

  For years, the water industry's PFAS conversation centered on monitoring, testing, and regulatory anticipation. Today, that phase is largely over.
• PFAS Funding Is Flowing — But Does The Water Sector Have Enough People To Deliver It?

  For several years, the PFAS conversation has centered on treatment options, testing, and funding. Those factors still matter, but they are no longer the primary constraint. Most utilities already understand the treatment routes available to them; the real challenge now is moving from technical possibility to operational performance, and that depends entirely on people.

• Sunscreen For Lakes And Dams: Could A Thin Floating Layer Of Nanomaterial Shield Water From Evaporation?

  Water stored in dams and reservoirs for humans to use often evaporates, especially in hot regions like southern Africa. Rising temperatures speed evaporation up, leaving less water for people, farming and industry. Daniel Kwasi Kpeglo has just completed a PhD in physics. He explains his laboratory research into a new design – a thin nanomaterial floating cover that could be placed over lakes and dams like a blanket, reducing evaporation by limiting the amount of infrared heat from the sun that reaches the water. He also outlines what hurdles need to be cleared for the design to be tested in the real world.

• Water Technology Trends 2026: Five Trends Shaping The Future Of Water

  Discover five technology trends expected to influence the water sector in 2026 and how they can help utilities improve resilience, efficiency, and decision-making.

• ECOPOD Brings Recovery Center Into State Regulatory Compliance

  Sana Lake Recovery Center replaced an undersized, unpermitted lagoon with a 20,000 GPD ECOPOD system designed to meet Missouri wastewater requirements and support expansion.

• Many Cities Buried Urban Streams. Here's How To Bring Them Back

  As many cities developed, streams that once flowed on the surface were buried underground to make way for growing infrastructure. However, as heavier rainfall, extreme weather and aging infrastructure place growing pressure on cities, these buried streams could become part of the solution. Restoring streams to the surface — a practice known as stream daylighting — can help manage stormwater, restore habitats, and create greener, more walkable public spaces.