WASTEWATER MEASUREMENT RESOURCES

• The Internet Of Things Is Driving Smart Agriculture

  The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling data-driven smart agriculture. The IoT is a network of technologies which can monitor the status of physical and other objects, capture meaningful data, and communicate that data over a wireless network to a computer in the cloud for software to analyze and help determine action steps.

• Findlay Township Utility Saves Money And Manpower With Proactive Xylem Technology

  Learn about the acoustic monitoring application that identifies water leaks efficiently. 

• How Kansas City, MO Optimized Overflow Control For 10 Basins In 3 Months And At Almost Half The Cost Of Original Plan

  Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO) was updating their Overflow Control Plan as part of a federal consent decree with the aim to reduce the frequency and severity of combined and sanitary system overflows during wet weather events. KCMO needed to quickly find the most efficient, cost-effective way to reach compliance and serve their 478 000 residents. They partnered with Optimatics and EmNet leveraging the Optimizer platform to identify the best combinations of conveyance, in line storage, and I/I reduction strategies to achieve their program goals at the lowest lifecycle cost.

• Infoworks ICM Saves Valuable Time And Reduces Error For ISG

  Looking to improve performance of data collection, modeling, and analyzing results, ISG transitioned from one software tool to Infoworks ICM by Innovyze for its data integrity and clean-up functionality.

• 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?

• What The Water Sector Could Learn From The Electric Side

  Each year, the nation wastes an estimated two trillion gallons, or about 14 to 18 percent, of its treated water through leaks alone. That’s a lot of water – enough to fill over three million Olympic-size swimming pools.

• A Tale Of Two SCADA Conversions

  J.D. Irving, Limited Sawmill Division has invested $70 million in the latest operational equipment as part of their continuous investment in sustainable forest management strategies. In 2015, the company chose VTScada monitoring and control software to replace the aging SCADA systems used in their biomass boiler and trim line processes. Jody Gallant, an Electrical Engineering Technologist for JD Irving describes the some challenges and benefits of implementing a modern industrial SCADA system.

• L&T Construction Delivers Clean Drinking Water To 2.5 Million Residents In India's Rural Communities

  As part of India’s Jal Jeevan Mission—a nationwide initiative to provide safe, piped drinking water to every rural household by 2024—the Rajghat multivillage rural water supply scheme stands out as a transformative project.

• Top 10 Technologies From WEFTEC

  They did it again. Seemingly every year WEFTEC breaks records for size and attendance, and 2014 in New Orleans was no exception. There was a lot to choose from, but I picked my favorite innovations to highlight in what has become another annual tradition — Water Online’s “Top 10” from WEFTEC.

• Agentic AI In The Water Sector: From Chatbots To Digital Operators

  If AI can inform decisions, can it also help execute them? For the water sector, this distinction is not just semantic; it is the difference between a digital assistant that takes notes and a digital operator that turns valves.