Post Tagged with: "risk mitigation"

Renewing Systems and Culture with Asset Management

Renewing Systems and Culture with Asset Management

Water Management September 2, 2025 at 8:15 am

AlexRenew Boosts Operational Efficiency Recently, AlexRenew, the wastewater authority serving Alexandria, Virginia, implemented new asset management software and modified internal processes to help modernize its operations. The upgrade is an example of what the authority’s leadership describes as a transformation of its asset management processRead More

EPA directs more than $400 million to North Carolina for drinking water, natural disaster prep

EPA directs more than $400 million to North Carolina for drinking water, natural disaster prep

Water Management August 29, 2025 at 11:40 am

Earlier in August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would allocate $409.4 million to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) for public water systems to improve local drinking water utility infrastructure so their systems can better withstand natural disasters.    “In February,Read More

New study maps water quality violation hotspots

New study maps water quality violation hotspots

Water Management April 15, 2025 at 4:04 pm

A new study published today in the journal, Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, maps which U.S. counties are most at risk for water quality and how ownership and inequality intersect. This study claims to be the first to combine nationwideRead More

Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell one of the largest damns in USA, Utah

Soil Moisture Analysis to Manage Risks in Earthen Dams and Levees

Water Management September 5, 2024 at 7:05 am

By Paul Gagliardo The world’s dams and levees are essential infrastructure used to store water, control flooding, provide recreation and generate power. Dams and levee networks are designated as critical infrastructure and over their expected life exposed to multiple hazards, including flooding, storm surge, erosion, debrisRead 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

Asset Management: Criticality and Risk Analysis

Asset Management: Criticality and Risk Analysis

Water Management November 16, 2023 at 7:15 am

Mojave Water Agency Optimizes Maintenance Activities, Realizes Cost Savings | By Tacoma Zach The Mojave Water Agency (MWA) is responsible for ensuring a stable and sustainable water supply for the High Desert region in San Bernardino County. Its projects cover a service area of approximatelyRead More

Q&A: Risk, Resilience and Response

Q&A: Risk, Resilience and Response

Water Management August 28, 2023 at 8:34 am

Shawn Corrigan, Vice President, Risk and Resilience Principal, Carollo, chats with WF&M This past June at AWWA’s Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE23) in Toronto, we caught up with Shawn Corrigan, CEM, vice president and risk and resilience principal at Carollo. Corrigan walked us though someRead More

The True Cost of Claims

The True Cost of Claims

Water Finance June 23, 2023 at 11:00 am

By Phil Bowles Owners and managers responsible for handling and procuring their business insurance often feel a twinge when the terms accident, claim, or loss are uttered. Often these terms mean some singular event must be managed, and afterward, the firm continues its regular business.Read More

Fitch Ratings: Cyber events could pose ‘material risk’ to water, sewer utility credit

Fitch Ratings: Cyber events could pose ‘material risk’ to water, sewer utility credit

  Water and sewer credit ratings incorporate an assessment of an entity’s resiliency to manage unexpected events, including cyberattacks, which could pose financial and operating risks that ultimately affect utility credit quality, Fitch Ratings says. Event risks like cyberattacks are considered asymmetric risks per Fitch’sRead More

Echologics field engineers install a permanent leak detection node to monitor a critical water transmission main for the development of leaks during construction pile driving activity near the main.

Water Main Leak Monitoring for Construction Risk Mitigation

  By David Stewart Jones Pulling the manhole cover aside, the team of pipeline leak-detection specialists from Echologics looked down into the flooded underground chamber below. A local water utility crew pumped water from the chamber, slowly revealing valves and pipe fittings connected to a pairRead More