Prevent Water Scarcity From Becoming Job Scarcity
By Ian MacLeod It doesn’t matter which came first — chickens, eggs, farmers or consumers. When water scarcity is involved, all…
Pipe Market Turns to New Materials to Address Aging Water Infrastructure
Municipal pipe market spend makes up 30 percent of overall utility CAPEX for water infrastructure. In part, to address aging…
Avoiding Crisis: Preparing for the Proposed Lead and Copper Rule Revisions
By Megan Glover In October 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited proposed revisions to the existing…
Financial Report: Serving the Community through Data-Driven Decisions
By Glenn Barnes Water systems exist to serve their communities. But do the water system’s rate structure, prices, and policies…
Non-Revenue No More: West Virginia Utility Gets Strategic with AMI
By Dan Pinney Non-revenue water (NRW) is a longstanding issue that continues to be a thorn in the side of…
Sewerball: The Art of Managing Storm and Wastewater Using Data
By Greg Quist Stormwater and sanitary sewer systems may be some of the least technologically sophisticated systems in the utility’s…
Water Utilities, Climate Change, Bond Ratings and Insurance: Connections and Implications
By Erica Brown The managers of two large utilities recently remarked to me that in recent discussions with bond rating…
Four Trends Shaping Water Metering in 2020
By John Fillinger The previous decade saw the introduction and growth of smart water advancements in the water metering industry….
AMWA: Proposed Lead and Copper Rule presents significant changes for utilities
By Diane VanDe Hei The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in October released its long-awaited proposal for the revised Lead…
Setting Stormwater Rates Using Machine Learning
City of Mineral Wells, Texas, Uses Image Classification in Stormwater Rate Study By Tak Makino The City of Mineral Wells, Texas,…