The City of Austin, Texas, is in the fifth year of a hydrant assessment program that has reduced the number of hydrants out of service at a given time from 80 to less than 10 hydrants out of 25,000 in the system.

Conversations about outsourcing and contract operations in the municipal water industry have traditionally focused on larger scale public private partnerships. However, there has been a growing trend in the outsourcing of discrete functions that require either specialized skills, equipment, or just the manpower to get the job done.

A water authority in Pennsylvania needed to automate communication from its remote wells and pump stations to meet new EPA rules.

While submersible pumps are better able to withstand damage during floods and storms, they are less efficient than standard dry pit pumps. Our pump expert outlines how to maximize the performance of submersible pump systems.

Cues offers various self-contained portable systems for CCTV inspection.

In the second part of a WWi series designed to provide practical advice to utilities, we tackle the growing concern of system leakage. Allan Lambert, leader of the 1st IWA Water Loss Task Force, provides a personal perspective on the ever-growing international recognition of how pressure management can influence leakage and asset management.

Technologies used for tunnelling trenches, digging or renewing pipelines have developed considerably over the last 40 years. Yet how is this market weathering the global economic storm? WWi reports on recent developments, including pipe bursting in Brazil and a new service pipeline in Germany.

GE was instrumental in bringing Australia’s largest seawater desalination plant into operation with its innovative rainfall catchment technology.

Northern Ireland water (NI Water), the sole provider of water and wastewater services in the country, said it has £250 million worth of contracts to tender over the next year and a half...