WASTEWATER MEASUREMENT RESOURCES

• 3 Public Works Professionals Tap Technology To Address Infrastructure Challenges

  The digital revolution has reached our utilities, but not everyone is taking advantage of how it can, for example, make water and wastewater cleaner, healthier, and more efficient. National news media seemingly report daily on U.S. infrastructure, but they rarely get down in the trenches with the public works professionals who are accomplishing so much. Three of them, who are using the Internet of Things (IoT) to better manage critical assets, tell their stories here.

• Bristol Water Keeps Drinking Water Safe With InfoWorks WS Pro

  Bristol Water has provided clean, fresh drinking water to its customers since 1846. For almost 200 years, the health and environment of their communities has remained at the forefront of their values. Today, Bristol Water supplies over 1 million people within Bristol, England, across an area of almost 2,400 square kilometers. Bristol Water’s operations include the abstraction, storage, treatment, and distribution of water to homes, businesses, and other premises. They focus exclusively on water, not wastewater.  

• Apps Improve Inspection Workflows And Efficiency

  The Iowa Great Lakes Sanitary District (IGLSD) is a wastewater collection and treatment facility. IGLSD's work is critical for protecting the high water quality of Iowa's Great Lakes. These lakes are part of a chain of glacial lakes that span about 15,000 acres. The Iowa Great Lakes area attracts over one million visitors a year according to the local chamber of commerce.

• Safe Water For All: New Advancements In Monitoring Technology

  As water management issues proliferate due to scarcity, contamination, and stricter regulations, monitoring solutions are rising to meet the challenge.
• Math Solutions: Alkalinity Calculations

  We know the importance of pH to biological wastewater treatment, but alkalinity should be considered equally important for its direct correlation to pH.

• Surfing Our Way Through 'The Internet Of Things'

  By nature, I’m a curious person and always looking at innovations outside of the water industry for inspiration in my daily work. I recently came across an article talking about how AT&T was embracing the idea of the Internet of Things, and it was a real eye-opener on how technology is evolving in our unseen daily interactions aside from iPhones and tablets.

• Treatment Plant Maintains Service During Infrastructure Upgrade Using Xylem Rental Bypass

  To move forward with long-overdue infrastructure upgrades, Nodra AB needed a wastewater bypass solution capable of lifting up to 3,000 liters per second into its Slottshagens treatment plant. Xylem’s Rental Solutions team set up a turnkey wastewater bypass station in a little over three weeks.

• The Zen Of Smart Pressure Management: Calming Water Distribution Networks

  Over recent years, water companies around the world have enhanced their ability to control the pressure of water in their distribution networks to improve customer service and achieve environmental savings.

• PFAS Testing Boom: U.S. Analytical Instrumentation Market Set For Rapid Expansion

  The U.S. PFAS analytical instrumentation market is poised for strong expansion, with a projected CAGR exceeding 20% over the next seven years, according to a new report. Key drivers in the market include rising concerns over increasing risks associated with PFAS exposure, the U.S. EPA's federal rule on drinking water, and investments to boost testing and treating PFAS in water.
• How The Middle East Is Transforming Its Power And Water Industry

  Global demand for power and water is accelerating — and the Middle East is no exception. A burgeoning population combined with multiple industrial diversification programs is fueling a boom in power and water projects. During the first three quarters of 2017, about US$30 billion of major power contracts and US$20 billion of water projects were awarded across the region. In 2018, the figure is looking more like $60 billion with the two sectors combined.