WASTEWATER MEASUREMENT RESOURCES

• What Is Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) And What Does It Do?

  Many people know what ATP stands for, but do you know what it does? This article demystifies this amazing energy carrier and explains why water professionals should care about it.

• BPM Of Things: Secure Your Success In Digital Transformation

  Business process management (BPM) has proven extremely successful in managing both gradual and radical improvements in the industry and various business functions. While digitization brings incredible new opportunities, it also brings the distinctive challenge of correctly positioning and scoping BPM in organizations.

• EPA's ENTACT Study Breaks New Ground With Non-Targeted Research

  EPA scientists are leading a multi-phase project to evaluate the ability of non-targeted analysis laboratory methods to consistently and correctly identify unknown chemicals in samples. EPA’s Non-Targeted Analysis Collaborative Trial (ENTACT) was formed in late 2015 and includes nearly 30 academic, government, and industry groups. Non-targeted analysis involves analyzing water, soil and other types of samples to identify unknown chemicals that may be present, without having a preconceived idea of what chemicals may be in the samples.

• The Value Of Wastewater Data

  What follows is a breakdown of some of the key applications of real-time data access in the wastewater sector.

• Innovyze Q+A With Leading Expert David Fortune: Defining Water's Digital Transformation In Modern Times

  Discussing the past, present and future of digital transformation.

• GIS Touches Every Aspect Of Central Arkansas Water

  From the management of underground assets, like pipes, valves, and meters, to an automatic fire hydrant inspection notification system to efficiencies in our billing system, GIS increases the quality of service our utility provides every day.

• Make Your SCADA Feel Young Again

  When the Village of Romeoville underwent a major upgrade to their SCADA system, they also decided to move to the latest version of the monitoring & control software that they had used successfully for many years. This version included features designed specifically for the water/wastewater industry. In this article, a former Head of the Water Department (*) explains why the utility continues to push for the latest HMI version and how this helps them overcome many of the issues related to maintaining a long-running SCADA system. By Christopher Little

• 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.

• A Deluge of BIG DATA: The Connected Water Utility

  Water industry professionals are experiencing a data deluge. There’s a lot of data out there, gathered from sensors monitoring everything from water quality to pipe bursts — but altogether, it’s too much data divided among too many silos to make sense of what it all means.

• Smarter Pumps, Lower Emissions: The Digital Reinvention Of San Jose Water

  Pumps are power-hungry and thus expensive to run, but San Jose Water shows how data-driven technologies and strategies can bring the cost down for utilities.