WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT RESOURCES

• Stormwater Management Is A Worldwide Challenge

  Last month, I wrote about San Francisco's great rain garden/bio-retention basin project. Strategically placed sunken curb cuts, swales or park features collect stormwater and let it filter into the ground, reducing the pressure on overwhelmed storm drains and sewers.

• Rain Gardens Guarding San Francisco

  Laurie Lauria and I spent last week moving out of San Francisco up to Napa, California, dodging the raindrops and taking advantage of a few dry days in this remarkably stormy winter — weather that makes this a perfect time to talk about the need to capture rainwater and protect overwhelmed urban sewer systems.

• These Places Are Pioneering Solutions To Heatwaves And Floods

  Climate change is going just as badly for cities as we have been warned it would. Extreme weather is increasingly common and severe globally. Australian cities have endured a number of recent disastrous events. It’ll get worse, too. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fact sheet outlining impacts on human settlements is a very sobering read.

• Flood Forecasts In Real-Time With Block-By-Block Data Could Save Lives — A New Machine Learning Method Makes It Possible

  I am a hydrologist who sometimes works in remote areas, so interpreting weather data and forecast uncertainty is always part of my planning. As someone who once nearly drowned while crossing a flooded river where I shouldn’t have, I am also acutely conscious of the extreme human vulnerability stemming from not knowing exactly where and when a flood will strike.

• Seal Rock Conserves Water And Advances Customer Service With Sensus

  In this case study, discover how an Oregon water district moved to AMI for better accuracy and response time. 

• Florida's Largest Public Utility Recovers One Billion Gallons Of Unaccounted For Water

  Learn how Sensus Omni Meters, a rigorous testing program, and infrastructure upgrades saved a utility time and money. 

• Jacksonville, Texas, Tackles Weather Emergency, Improves Customer Service With Xylem Technology

  Learn how the Sensus ally water meter with remote shutoff helps prevent property damage in Jacksonville, Texas. 

• Georgia City Reaches Beyond Metering With Xylem

  Learn how the Sensus smart utility network allowed Gainesville to improve leak detection and enhance customer service. 

• Grad Student Reimagines Oklahoma City With Green Infrastructure Design Using InfoDrainage

  Andrea Tavera, a former University of Oklahoma graduate student, used Innovyze drainage design software to promote LID-based, green infrastructure design in hopes of resolving Oklahoma’s two greatest drainage challenges caused by stormwater runoff: excessive flooding and pollution. 

• Getting A Jump On Pump Maintenance To Reduce Costs And Improve Resilience

  To improve pump maintenance and service to 418,000 in and around Wellington, Wellington Water trialed Info360 Insight from Autodesk as part of a solution with Stantec.