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Biden-Harris admin engages states on cyber threats

Technology Perspectives, Water Management March 20, 2024 at 8:15 am

On March 19, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sent a letter to all U.S. governors inviting state environmental, health and homeland security secretaries to a convening by their deputies to discuss the urgent need for cyber protection in theRead More

NACWA honors National Environmental Achievement Award winners

NACWA honors National Environmental Achievement Award winners

Water Management March 19, 2024 at 1:52 pm

The National Association of Clean Water Agencies’ (NACWA) 2024 National Environmental Achievement Award (NEAA) winners were recently recognized during the association’s Winter Conference in Austin, Texas, in February. The NEAA program recognizes individual and public clean water agency initiatives that have made a remarkable impactRead More

2024 Construction Outlook: (Cautious) Optimism Should Rule the Day

2024 Construction Outlook: (Cautious) Optimism Should Rule the Day

Water Management March 18, 2024 at 9:40 am

| By Megan Tanel When it comes to the short-term economic outlook for equipment manufacturing and the construction industry it serves, the only thing anyone can honestly say for certain is there are no certainties. It’s easy to look back on what’s happened in constructionRead More

Top-Notch Operation: Data Management Boosts Pennsylvania Wastewater Plant

Top-Notch Operation: Data Management Boosts Pennsylvania Wastewater Plant

Water Management March 14, 2024 at 11:45 am

By Erik Larsen The Brush Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (BCWTP) is located about half an hour north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Cranberry Township. The plant uses physical, chemical, biological and membrane filtration processes to treat an average of 3.4 million gallons of wastewater daily. TheRead More

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IRS says LSL replacements will not need to be reported as taxable income

Water Management March 11, 2024 at 9:07 am

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will issue an official tax guidance update on March 11 that work done by water service providers to replace lead service lines on private property will not need to be reported as taxable income. The IRS and the U.S. EnvironmentalRead More

Filling the Gaps in Asset Management: Q&A

Filling the Gaps in Asset Management: Q&A

Water Management March 8, 2024 at 9:56 am

Editor’s Note: For some more perspective on asset management trends as we head into 2024, here’s a conversation we had with Tacoma Zach, co-founder and chief executive officer, and John Clow, co-founder and chief operating officer, at MentorAPM. We caught up with Zach and ClowRead More

BIG AMI: Fort Worth Water Harnesses the Value of Data

BIG AMI: Fort Worth Water Harnesses the Value of Data

AMR/AMI, Water Management March 5, 2024 at 1:30 pm

The City of Fort Worth, Texas, provides clean and affordable water to 1.4 million people and has a progressive utility that places innovation at the forefront of its goals. The utility had been exploring options for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) program that would ultimatelyRead More

Water main break study highlights correlation between material, diameter

Water main break study highlights correlation between material, diameter

Utah State University (USU) has published new research on water main breaks in the United States and Canada, examining break rates and related factors such as pipe material and diameter. It is the third such study conducted by USU with previous versions in 2012 andRead More

Q&A: Maintaining Assets, De-Risking Operations

Q&A: Maintaining Assets, De-Risking Operations

WF&M Discussion with John Flaugher & Jonathan Cato, USG Water Solutions Editor’s Note: Addressing ongoing maintenance costs for utility assets is becoming increasingly critical. We caught up with John Flaugher, president and chief executive officer, and Jonathan Cato, chief operating officer, of USG Water SolutionsRead More

The dashboard provides Silver Creek with accurate data on all meters and alerts when issues may arise. Meter specialists can communicate with customers without having to make multiple trips.

Indiana Water Company Prevents Water Loss with Smart Tech

AMR/AMI, Technology Perspectives, Water Loss February 29, 2024 at 11:46 am

By Trey Overman In an era when water conservation is paramount, Southern Indiana’s Silver Creek Water Corp. is a textbook example of how to use innovative technology to not only save resources, but also to improve customer service. Serving a population of 20,000 in theRead More