Coming Into Focus

Across the United States, water and wastewater utilities continue to deal with challenges ranging from aging infrastructure, water loss and drought management to water resource recovery and combined sewer overflows amid increasing regulations. For municipalities, oftentimes many of these challenges occur simultaneously. Even as new technology continues to be implemented to help monitor the condition and operation of assets, a process to streamline utility management and finances can be of great benefit. The growing acceptance and implementation of asset management initiatives has become a focus in solving these problems.

In particular, the Certification of Training in Asset Management (CTAM) program has served as a comprehensive educational tool for utility leaders since 2010. Thanks to CTAM, these utility managers can not only become better equipped at managing utility principles and concepts for buried infrastructure, but also become certified in this area.?? ?