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July 17, 2023
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Small water utilities are prime targets for cyber attacks, but the National Cyber-Informed Engineering Strategy's protections may help.
Replacing roughly half of its meters allowed this small, environmentally challenged utility the opportunity to test smart water solutions and measure the success of switching to a modular automated meter reading (AMR) system.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals granted a request from AWWA and NRWA to stop EPA’s new cybersecurity auditing requirements from going into effect until the associations’ legal challenges are resolved.
NTMWD was recognized for its source water protection, which developed watershed protection plans to reduce pollutants in its two water sources: Lavon Lake and Bois d’Arc Lake.
NEWS
Part of BlueConduit Starter, the free tool combines machine learning with public records to estimate the number of unknown lead service lines at the water system level, as well as an initial cost estimate.
The warmest May on record, coupled with an abnormally dry spring and early summer, prompted an early warning of possible drought.
About $100 million of the settlement will help address PFAS impacts to certain public water systems and private potable drinking water wells, even where the source of PFAS contamination is disputed.
The U.S. EPA has announced a new framework to regulate new commercial PFAS uses, preventing PFAS contamination that would harm human health and the environment, while allowing new critical or safe uses of PFAS.
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Sentryx is a digital services platform for water utilities to monitor, control, operate, and monetize water distribution networks. It is easy to use with intuitive dashboards and powerful mapping and data visualizations.
Mueller Systems’ Mueller Cellular Node, is a network-as-a-service (NaaS) endpoint solution designed for water network agility. The solutions is an addition to the Mi.Net® Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) system.
Emerson’s device management software, AMS Device Manager, is the first host software to be fully registered by FieldComm Group® to support the Field Device Integration (FDI) standard.
Working with smart meters and sensors, the FlexNet® communication network securely transmits and receives customer usage data.