Missing Piece? How Outside Contractors Are Helping Utilities Fill Non-Core Functions and Become More ProductiveConversations 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. |
Going Wireless: Water Authority Installs Remote Monitoring SystemA water authority in Pennsylvania needed to automate communication from its remote wells and pump stations to meet new EPA rules. |
Safeguarding Pumps Against Flood Damage While Reducing CostsWhile 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. |
Portable CCTVCues offers various self-contained portable systems for CCTV inspection. |
Leakage Reductions: The Fundamental Role of Pressure ManagementIn 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. |
The Evolution of the Water Mole: Will Open Cut Trenching be a Thing of the Past?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 technology helps Australia’s largest desalination plant become operationalGE was instrumental in bringing Australia’s largest seawater desalination plant into operation with its innovative rainfall catchment technology. |
Roll up, roll up – £250m of water contracts on offer in Northern IrelandNorthern 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... |
NSF International announces dual certification of gasket, sealing productsNSF International has certified the first gasket and sealing materials used with push-fit fittings to both chloramine resistance and tensile strength performance requirements. |
Valve strainerSinger Valve's ZS Strainer is designed to protect control valves and pipelines from foreign matter such as twigs, leaves and rocks that get caught in the flow and can cause blocks or equipment failure. |