Water Management

Peel Region, a municipality west of Toronto, has implemented a new customer service and billing system aimed at enhancing service for its water account holders. According to customer service vendor Oracle, by upgrading its on-premises solution to the cloud, Peel Region now has a platform thatRead More

Itron, Inc. recently announced that Eastside Utility District (EUD) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is deploying Itron’s Smart Water Solutions to enhance operations and modernize its water network. The project, which is in the final phase of deployment, has allowed the utility to collect accurate meter reads, enhance revenue assurance and provideRead More

The National Rural Water Association (NRWA), in collaboration with the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), has announced a Cybersecurity Circuit Rider Program study. The one-year study began on Nov. 1, 2024, and itsRead More

The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority announced it has rebranded to Pittsburgh Water in a move the utility said is meant to simplify its name and better reflect the interconnected nature behind the authority’s drinking water, wastewater and stormwater services.  Pittsburgh Water remains a publiclyRead More

The Water Environment Federation’s (WEF’s) WEFTEC 2024 brought together a record-breaking community of water professionals, thought leaders and innovators to New Orleans, Oct. 5-9. As the largest water-quality event in North America, WEFTEC drew more than 21,000 registrants this year, a 19% increase over theRead More

By Silvan Kaufmann Microbiological monitoring is critical to water quality management. It ensures the safety of drinking water, protects public health, and supports regulatory compliance. However, traditional approaches to this monitoring have often low coverage in space and time, are time-consuming, and prone to humanRead More

The Arizona Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA) has initiated a flexible, multi-phase pathway to securing new, long-term sources of water for the state.  WIFA officials will use a competitive process supported by Arizona’s Long-term Water Augmentation Fund (LTWAF) to identify, vet, and select partners andRead More

By David Stewart Jones A demonstration of San Jose Water’s new Emergency Water Distribution Unit (EWDU) in March 2024 highlighted the collaborative development crucial to creating a rapid-response mobile unit enabling quick and efficient drinking water delivery and distribution directly to customers during water outages,Read More

On Oct. 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3.6 billion in new funding under the Biden-Harris administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to upgrade water infrastructure. Combined with $2.6 billion announced earlier in October, EPA said the $6.2 billion in investments for Fiscal Year 2025Read More

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) joined other national leaders at the White House for a roundtable on water security and climate resilience on Oct. 31. As a water sector representative, WEF had the unique opportunity to highlight its commitment to building a more sustainable andRead More