Water Management

Officials and administrators are responsible for the health of the communities they serve. This requires quality piping systems that provide clean drinking water and sanitation.

When municipal and utility engineers and other decision-makers authorize a materials or equipment purchase, they?re putting their professional reputations on the line every time.

The decision, by an engineer, designer, municipal official or anyone else, of how to accomplish the renewal of a deteriorated buried pipe in an urban or suburban environment without excavation must be based on readily available parameters for the existing pipeline being examined.

A lot of discussion surrounds the need for condition assessment of existing infrastructure in order to properly prioritize the work that needs to be done to rehabilitate our water and sewer pipelines.

Though often undervalued, water is not a given in this country. In fact, by 2025, water demand is expected to outpace supply by 50 percent.

Water Utility Infrastructure Management (UIM) is pleased to announce that Steve Maxwell has joined the editorial board.

American Water, the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced in December that its subsidiary, American Water Enterprises, has acquired Environmental Management Corp. (EMC) from The Linde Group.

The UIM Conference Series is heading to Blacksburg, Va., March 10 for its Water/Wastewater Management Conference.

Water Utility Infrastructure Management (UIM) is pleased to announce that Steve Maxwell has joined its editorial board. Maxwell is Managing Director of TechKNOWLEDGEy Strategic Group, based in Boulder, Colo.

Aclara, a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure technologies part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc., announced that the Toho Water Authority, Kissimmee, Fla., has chosen the STAR Network advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system for a phased deployment, beginning with a 5,100-meter pilot.