Water Management

At an event in June with Lummi Nation in Bellingham, Wash., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox, announced more than $278 million in funding to improve access to safe and reliable drinking water and wastewater services for American Indian TribesRead More

Mueller Systems has announced the City of South Daytona, Florida, will soon begin deployment of its Network as a Service (NaaS) AMI system with LoRaWAN. Mueller says the LoRaWAN endpoints will allow South Daytona to efficiently collect data remotely and give visibility into its customers’Read More

Schneider Electric and SUEZ recently announced they are joining forces to accelerate the deployment of digital solutions for energy efficiency, resource conservation and the control of carbon impact of water cycle management systems.   An estimated two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in water-stressedRead More

Naomi Park of Greenwich, Connecticut, was named the national winner of the 2023 U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP). Park’s research explores collecting Styrofoam debris in the ocean and then using that collected material as a filter to reduce ocean carbon levels. This simultaneously addressesRead More

As water utilities across the United States work to find and replace lead service lines (LSLs), many are doing so without knowing just how many are in their system. To help utilities plan, water analytics company BlueConduit has launched a free LSL count and replacementRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced its framework for addressing new and new uses of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The framework outlines EPA’s planned approach when reviewing new PFAS and new uses of PFAS to ensure that, before these chemicals are allowed to enterRead More

This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted a request from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cybersecurity Rule from going into effect until a current caseRead More

Around the world, water utilities are embracing data analytics and digital technologies to deliver transformative outcomes for their communities. Digital solutions, many leveraging digital twins, like Xylem Vue powered by GoAigua, are helping water operators and managers solve their most pressing challenges: minimizing water and revenueRead More

Longtime water industry veteran Alan Scott Haskins, who spent much of his career working for the City of Seattle and later with CH2M/Jacobs and as an independent consultant, passed away on June 26. He was 74. Haskins spent more than 40 years working in theRead More

According to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), at least 45 percent of the nation’s tap water is estimated to have one or more types of PFAS “present” in its system. Not all PFAS (there are reportedly more 12,000 different types) canRead More