Flushing & Pressure Monitoring: New Solutions Add Increased Intelligence for Water Utilities

editor’s note: The following was adapted from an article that appeared in a 2020 eBook developed by Water Finance & Management and sponsored by Mueller. Click here to download the complete eBook.

As a matter of public health, the quality of drinking water and the condition of the infrastructure used to deliver it, has been under the microscope due to hot button issues like lead pipelines, PFAS and other emerg­ing contaminants. With these issues facing even greater public scrutiny thanks to high-profile situations like the lead contamination crises where people who contracted Legionnaires’ disease or Legionella in the last decade. Legionella is six times more prevalent today than it was in 1976 and 10 percent of people who contract the disease will die. Monitoring and protecting water quality is more important than ever.