Water Management

Design and engineering firm Stantec announced it has begun the final design phase of Segment B of the South Hillsborough Pipeline with longtime client Tampa Bay Water. With a construction cost of approximately $100 million (USD), Segment B will help meet the growing demand forRead More

By Theresa Bellish Worldwide, water utility managers must constantly pivot as external factors affect our water sources. Emerging contaminants like PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) and chemicals coming from illegal dumping and accidental leaks have become more prevalent as climate change causes extreme weather inRead More

Asset management software company MentorAPM announced Colby Manwaring has been named chairman of its newly appointed five-member board of directors. Manwaring is responsible for the creation and execution of enterprise strategic vision and commercial success at several companies. His most recent roles include CEO ofRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it will withdraw plans to require states to survey cybersecurity best practices at public water systems — welcome news to much of the industry that opposed the approach. The EPA proposal was included in the agency’s FY22Read More

Alternatives and Complementary Systems to Consider | By Peter Mayer Customer metering is fundamental to the successful function of a modern water utility. The introduction of expensive Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems with fixed data transmission networks and battery powered “smart” water meters has confrontedRead More

Infrastructure engineering software company Bentley Systems, Inc., has announced several projects from the United States as finalists in its 2023 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. Among the finalists in the water/wastewater category is the City of Sacramento’s $1.7 billion EchoWater project The annual awards programRead More

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Three companies that are innovating methods to non-invasively detect lead service lines were awarded grants totaling $75,000 in September from the Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA) as part of the organization’s 2023 Open Innovation Challenge. The CWA’s Open Innovation Challenge, essentially a Request for Technology ConceptsRead More

Design and engineering company Stantec has been awarded a new $25 million (USD) 5-year single-award, task-order master services agreement with the Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) to provide flood risk mapping, assessment, and planning services. A portion of the first task order will focus onRead More

Water analytics company BlueConduit has announced an integration with Esri that will bring its machine learning to utilities using Esri’s ArcGIS technology. BlueConduit says its water utility customers will now have the ability to view and update service line inventories in a single platform usingRead More