WASTEWATER MEASUREMENT RESOURCES

• What Is A World-Class Utility, And How Does Yours Become One?

  Water utilities are tasked with ensuring a sustainable and safe supply in addition to achieving business and service excellence goals. These goals are typically based on criteria that measure operational performance, meeting bond covenants, and customer satisfaction.

• Leveraging Existing Risk Data And Multi-Objective Optimization, Las Vegas Valley Water District Identifies More Effective Spending On Pipe R&R

  LVVWD uses Optimatics software to manage assets and intelligently plan their pipe replacement and renewal programs by optimizing capital cost, business risk exposure, and hydraulic performance. Like many utilities, LVVWD faces a number of different challenges when considering asset renewal and replacement strategies.

• Nutrient Reduction Improvements Made Easy (And Cheap): Inside The EPA's Guide

  Concerned about potential nutrient discharge from non-advanced treatment plants and the lack of information available to help them combat it, the U.S. EPA has taken matters into their own hands.

• Who Sees What You Flush? Wastewater Surveillance For Public Health Is On The Rise, But A New Survey Reveals Many U.S. Adults Are Still Unaware

  Flush and forget? Not if you have a toilet that flushes to one of over 3,000 sites around the world where researchers are using wastewater to track SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But what do members of the public actually know about wastewater surveillance? And what do they think about researchers tracking what they send down the drain at their home?

• The Role Of IoT And Control Technologies In Water Filtration Systems

  With time, labor, and money at a premium, state-of-the-art controls on filtration equipment can ease the burden on operators while improving uptime and lowering costs.

• Pollution Early-Warning Technology Chosen By Anglian Water

  Anglian Water has become the first utility to adopt new cloud-based technology to detect rising main sewer bursts. The UK utility is implementing early-warning system BurstDetect, as part of its drive to eliminate serious pollution events in its region by 2025.

• Forward-Thinking Utility Knows The Value Of Advanced Technology

  Renewable Water Resources looks to remote alarm notification software to improve efficiency and avert problems.
• Taking Sustainability Into Account, United Utilities In The UK Identifies Combined Solutions Of Both Traditional And SuDS Strategies To Resolve Flooding

  United Utilities (UU) partnered with Optimatics to develop a Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) Optimization process for flood reduction using the Optimizer platform. They used Optimizer to identify the best overall combination of SuDS conveyance, and storage strategies to solve flooding problems for a wide range of potential scenarios. UU sought to understand the optimal solution between full flooding resolution and partial flooding resolution for a 10-, 20-, and 30-year event, testing SuDS cost sensitivities to measure the impact of a sustainable investment.

• ORP And pH — What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

  When I look back at 2016 one of the most significant trends I observed was the growing acceptance of ORP measurements, especially for monitoring disinfection. With one caveat, the ORP value measured in a solution provides an unambiguous measure of the disinfection efficacy.

• Automation 101: What Are You Really Controlling?

  We build big, shiny, fancy control panels with letters and number after their names like NEMA 4X.