Articles by: WFM Staff

According to a recent report from global water market insight firm Bluefield Research, European utilities are planning to invest more than $526 billion (USD) in water and wastewater infrastructure between 2016 and 2025. A combination of drivers including utility market restructuring, water and wastewater directivesRead More

Cave City, Ky., Uses PE 4710 to Upgrade Water System By Steve Cooper The Caveland Environmental Authority (CEA) in Cave City, Ky., has found the solution to reduce its 40 percent unaccounted water loss and protect the area’s sensitive subterranean ecology by replacing aging andRead More

By Brandon Buckner & Will Jernigan Nestled near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina, the City of Asheville has much to boast about — including quality of life, a vibrant arts culture and more microbreweries per capita than any U.S. cityRead More

  By David Stewart Jones Pulling the manhole cover aside, the team of pipeline leak-detection specialists from Echologics looked down into the flooded underground chamber below. A local water utility crew pumped water from the chamber, slowly revealing valves and pipe fittings connected to a pairRead More

Rio de Janeiro Network Designs Water Distribution System Delivering Energy Savings, Revenue Gains By Aidan Mercer Prolagos, a subsidiary of Aegea Group, is responsible for providing water and sewerage services to five municipalities in Região dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro. Prolagos manages a total waterRead More

How to Implement a Unidirectional Flushing Program and Improve Your Efficiency, Conservation By Lara Kammereck & Dan Reisinger Unidirectional Water Main Flushing (UDF) is increasingly used across North America to improve operations, enhance the water system and improve service standards. Water main flushing has long beenRead More

By Grady Stout & Kevin Kruchinski The sudden surge of water flow to the northern part of the water system in the Chattanooga, Tenn., in the early morning hours of April 4, 2016 was unexpected. It was also indicative of a problem for Tennessee American Water, aRead More

By Greg Baird Sustainability in Financial Decision Making In 2009, the National Research Council called for, in concept, a national integrated framework for infrastructure asset management to develop an alignment of cost and value of infrastructure services, user rate structures, community and regional fees, andRead More

Cavanaugh has announced that it has been selected for Phase 1 of a Water Loss Technical Assistance Program (Water Loss TAP) contract from the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association (CA-NV AWWA). The $3.2 million dollar program will run approximately two years andRead More

Hydrant Security Maintenance & Misconceptions In general, what are some of the most common security threats that water utilities face, whether intentional system attacks or passive threats? The biggest threat is always the introduction of some foreign material into the distribution system. A lot ofRead More