New Report Shows U.S. Water Utilities Sector Still in Early Stages of Digital Transformation
Findings highlight how data and technology resources will serve as critical assets to improve future efficiencies and operational performance. HAMILTON, NJ – Water utilities have been chronically underfunded for decades and an estimate from the American Water Works Association found that a $1 trillion investment is needed to meet the drinking water system needs in the U.S. To better understand how this industry is leveraging digital capabilities to its benefit in order to address these histor...
Wastewater testing finds SARS-CoV-2 in Truckee Meadows wastewater
University of Nevada, Reno researchers and City of Sparks staff collect samples of wastewater to test for prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the community. University partners with cities, county for wastewater environmental surveillance during pandemic RENO/SPARKS, Nevada – Sampling Truckee Meadows wastewater for the SARS-CoV-2 virus found a very clear upward spike approximately seven days before the spike appeared in the community in the form of people testing positive for the virus...
Video: The Digital Capabilities of US Water Utilities SmartMarket Brief
Todd Danielson, Informed Infrastructure's editorial director, interviewed Gregg Herrin, the vice president of water infrastructure at Bentley Systems, via webcam. They discussed a new study and report, "The Digital Capabilities of US Water Utilities SmartMarket Brief," jointly published by Dodge Data & Analytics and Bentley Systems, which established a benchmark for municipal water systems and the readiness of this market for digital transformation.
DuPont Provides Sustained Healthy Water Solutions for South African School
Community-based purification project at Reneilwe Primary School inaugurated on World Water Day TEMBA, Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa. March 23, 2021 – DuPont (NYSE:DD) donated a multi-technology water treatment plant that will provide safe, pure water to Reneilwe Primary School and the local community of Temba, Hammanskraal (north of Pretoria). The area’s water sources are afflicted by high levels of nitrate and phosphate contaminants, making municipal water unsafe to drin...
Wastewater and Excreta an Untapped Resource To Solve Environmental Risks
The Bio-Bus, running on biogas produced at a centralized sewage treatmenet plant, UK. Photo: Wessex Water A book by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), launched on World Water Day, reports that the sanitation waste of 50% of the global population is still disposed of without having been treated – posing enormous risks to both public health and the environment. At the same time, this disposal means opportunities are being flushed away; in...
Frost & Sullivan Experts Analyze Regional Tactics for Water and Sanitation for All by 2030
On World Water Day, explore key highlights on new technologies and business models leveraged by every region Santa Clara, Calif. – The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the water sector. Operational resilience and economic sustainability have become key focal points of investments. The lockdowns across the globe have severely disrupted supply chains and labor availability for production; both factors have significantly hit the growth of the water market across the globe. As we cele...
DuPont Water Solutions and Waterise Collaborate Toward Sustainable Subsea Desalination
Subsea Process, which Reduces Energy Requirements of Desalination by 40 percent, Requires Durable, Long-Lasting Membranes WILMINGTON, Del. – DuPont (NYSE:DD) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Waterise to provide seawater reverse osmosis membranes and expertise to the company’s subsea desalination plants. Subsea reverse osmosis (RO) desalination presents a sustainable and more economical new way to turn seawater to freshwater. As subsea desalination leverage...
Bureau of Reclamation Partners with US Army Corps of Engineers and HeroX to Crowdsource Portable Devices for Field Assessment of Composite Structures
Reclamation to Award $380,000 for Innovative Solutions That Help Move Water Infrastructure into the 21st Century Washington, D.C. -- March 4, 2021 -- The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the nation’s largest wholesale water supplier, in partnership with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and HeroX, the leading crowdsourcing platform for solutions to global problems, today announced the crowdsourcing competition “The Imperfection Detection Challenge”. The challenge calls on the global...
DuPont Awarded Grant from Singapore’s National Water Agency to Increase Sustainability of Desalination for Clean Water
Closed Circuit Reverse Osmosis (CCRO) Technology to reduce energy requirements of desalination systems by 15 percent WILMINGTON, Del., March 3, 2021 — DuPont (NYSE:DD) has been awarded a three-year, $1.3 million USD grant from PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency on behalf of National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) to determine how Closed Circuit Reverse Osmosis (CCRO) technology can be applied to desalination processes to make the purification of seawater more energy efficient,...
Exelon's Aquify Leverages Trimble's Digital Water Technology to Expand its Analytics Services for U.S. Water Utilities
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and CHICAGO - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Aquify, Exelon Corporation's water analytics service company, today announced that Aquify will leverage Trimble's advanced IoT and remote water monitoring technologies to expand its services for water utilities. The collaboration enables Aquify to make it easier for public and private water utilities to implement digital solutions for improving sustainability, reducing non-revenue water loss and improving infrastructure performance....
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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