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Water-AI Nexus Center of Excellence announces expansion

Water-AI Nexus Center of Excellence announces expansion

Water Management May 6, 2026 at 3:05 pm

The Water Environment Federation (WEF), alongside founding leaders Amazon, Leading Utilities of the World and the Water Center at Penn, have announced a major expansion of the Water-AI Nexus™ Center of Excellence. The center’s advisory council said the expansion will help strengthen the cross-sector collaborationRead More

Water Innovation of the Month: Meet ENZO™, Your AI Assistant for Smarter Water Management

Water Innovation of the Month: Meet ENZO™, Your AI Assistant for Smarter Water Management

Advertorial, AMR/AMI May 1, 2026 at 8:38 am

ENZOTM is a generative AI assistant integrated into the Neptune® 360™ platform. It is designed to simplify water management with a seamless user experience and intuitive interface. ENZO works as a water concierge for your team, delivering actionable insights, learning user patterns, and identifying opportunitiesRead More

Research team awarded grant to test AI tools at WSSC Water

Research team awarded grant to test AI tools at WSSC Water

Water Management March 30, 2026 at 7:17 am

A project team has been awarded a $150,000 research grant from the Water Research Foundation (WRF) to develop and test new artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to enhance operations at water resource recovery facilities. The team includes engineering firm Stantec, WSSC Water and Prince William Water, along with EAOS, a firm that specializes inRead More

Can AI Reverse Systemic Water Utility Challenges? It’s Complicated.

Can AI Reverse Systemic Water Utility Challenges? It’s Complicated.

Commentary, Technology Perspectives, Water Management November 25, 2025 at 7:05 am

By Gilad Horn Across North America, water utilities face a difficult financial and operational reality: unplanned repairs on aging infrastructure run anywhere from two to five times the cost of scheduled maintenance. And those emergency bills keep climbing as labor and materials grow more expensive.Read More

Oldcastle Infrastructure, VODA.ai announce partnership

Oldcastle Infrastructure, VODA.ai announce partnership

Water Loss, Water Management June 13, 2025 at 3:15 pm

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH Company, has entered into a commercial agreement with VODA.ai focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to identify areas in water systems at high risk of failure. Oldcastle Infrastructure said the partnership will bring AI capabilities to the analysis and reportingRead More

AI in Utility Construction: Opportunities, Challenges for Water

AI in Utility Construction: Opportunities, Challenges for Water

Water Management September 3, 2024 at 6:05 am

By Eric Bindler In the year and a half since OpenAI’s November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, conversations have been taking place across a wide range of industries and economic sectors about the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) — from the positive (e.g., enhanced efficiency,Read More

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Arcadis, VODA.ai partner on lead inventory, replacement software

Water Management April 3, 2023 at 7:56 am

VODA.ai is proud to be selected by Arcadis U.S. as their preferred artificial intelligence software partner to find lead pipes. This collaboration supports utilities in complying with the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revision (LCRR) by locating, inventorying, and planning the replacement of hazardous leadRead More

Up in the Clouds: Leveraging New Advancements in AI for Aging Infrastructure

Up in the Clouds: Leveraging New Advancements in AI for Aging Infrastructure

By Chris Dermody, Raja Kadiyala & Ravi Vennelakanti The challenges related to managing sewer collection systems are well understood. These include an ever-growing quantity of sewer inspection videos needing to be assessed and acted upon each year. In the total lifespan of this inspection dataRead More

Citylitics launches AI platform for predictive infrastructure

Citylitics launches AI platform for predictive infrastructure

Water Management January 18, 2021 at 8:59 am

WatrHub Inc., a North American data company with offices in Toronto, Milwaukee and Austin, has announced an expansion into the public infrastructure industry, with its initial focus on water infrastructure. The advancement prompted a brand refresh to Citylitics Inc. to better serve public infrastructure industries. Founded in 2012, WatrHub wasRead More

Fracta releases new software to quantify risk of water main failure

Fracta releases new software to quantify risk of water main failure

Fracta, a technology company applying machine learning to aging water infrastructure, has extended the capabilities of its Likelihood of Failure (LOF) software to include Consequence of Failure (COF) and Business Risk Exposure (BRE). With LOF, COF and BRE, Fracta technology helps enable water utilities to assessRead More