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By Dan Rafter Reinhard Sturm knows that water utilities across the country are losing water through leaks in their system. And he knows that many are losing a significant amount of water. Sturm is vice president of operations with Water Systems Optimization Inc. (WSO), an international engineering group with US offices in San Francisco, CA, and Nashville, TN. His company specializes in helping utilities determine how much water they are losing and identify the steps they can take to reduce this l...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure, Leaks and Audits, Resource-Management
Milford, Ohio (January 10, 2013) – Henry County Water and Sewerage Authority (McDonough, Ga.) has used equipment from Fluid Conservation Systems (FCS) to create an efficient leak detection program. The program has eliminated nearly 400 million gallons of non-revenue water in the last five years. Henry County maintains over 1,400 miles of mains to serve its approximately 54,000 meter connections. Its pipelines are constructed of various materials, mostly ductile iron as well as PVC and cast iron, with the...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Leak Detection, Leaks and Audits
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared March 18 through 24, 2013, the fifth annual Fix a Leak Week, a time for Americans to find and fix leaks to stop wasting water. More than 1 trillion gallons of water are lost annually nationwide due to easy-to-fix household leaks. Helping consumers identify leaks around the home can be as simple as reminding them to check, twist, and replace: Check toilets for leaks by putting a few drops of food coloring into the tank; wait a few minutes and see...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Leak Detection, Leaks and Audits
By Carol Brzozowski There is a growing list of reasons why water and wastewater utilities need to be on top of evaluating their pipe infrastructure. Among the many reasons: an aging infrastructure, a growing population, increasingly strict regulatory requirements, increased service demands, limited water supply, climate change, and limited state and federal funding. Aging and deteriorating systems create conditions that make water and wastewater service delivery more difficult as well as driving ...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure, Leaks and Audits, Pipes and Pumps
By Elizabeth Cutright According to National Rural Water Association estimates, almost 30,000 rural water utilities dot our national landscape, including many located in unincorporated hamlets and isolated backwaters. And whether their water comes from a nearby lake, a local river, or a reservoir several miles away, all of those rural customers expect access to clean, affordable drinking water. Unfortunately for many rural water utilities, shrinking tax bases, challenging local environments, and c...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: AMR and AMI, Leaks and Audits, Resource-Management
Water, Water EveryWhere: Too Many Leaks (via Global Warming is Real ) Fixing the leaks What is essential to daily life and breaks 850 times every day: a water main somewhere in the United States. In the time it took me to write that sentence one just broke – well, make that two – according to the “Water Main Break Clock” at WatermainbreakClock.com. Since… ... continue reading
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By Lyn Corum “The new technologies are automating data collection and the correlation process without field activities. This is reducing the time and expense of labor, equipment, and transportation costs. This is a big deal to utilities.” –Dean Slejko, Water Products Manager, Aclara From Pitometers to magnetic pod loggers, leak detection has been transformed in the past decade by new technologies so much so that non-revenue water loss can now be detected and repairs scheduled without the utility ...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Leaks and Audits, Pipes, Resource-Management
By Dan Rafter Michael Willmets knows that homeowners appreciate trenchless technology, even if they don’t understand what it is and how it works. And he’s eaten the cookies to prove it. Willmets was working as the project manager for the city of Ontario, Canada, water utility about six years ago. At the time, he was overseeing a pipe relining project for an entire community on the outskirts of the city. It wasn’t a small project, boasting a budget of about $3 million. And relying on traditional d...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Infrastructure, Leaks and Audits, Pipes and Pumps
By Guy Horowitz Like nearly every nation on the planet, the US is facing a water crisis. Old, rusted cast iron piping in cities and towns in the Northeast are at the end of their useful lives, fights and lawsuits over water rights in the desert Southwest are heating up, increasing numbers of pipe bursts around the nation are impacting often thousands of Americans each day, and network inefficiencies and more frequent droughts are resulting in water rationing in hard-hit areas. With access t...... continue reading
From: Water Efficiency Topics: Leaks and Audits, Resource-Management, Reuse
ATLANTA, Apr. 18, 2012 -- Echologics, a division of Mueller Co. and a developer and leading provider of acoustic-based technologies for water loss management, leak detection, and pipe condition assessment, has secured a service agreement with the City of Tampa Water Department. According to the agreement, Echologics will provide the department, which treats and delivers drinking water throughout the Tampa Bay area, with Trunk Main Leak Detection for approximately 7.5 miles of pipe in its water system th...... continue reading
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