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It’s a fact the water industry whether it be in drinking water treatment or in wastewater treatment produces a lot of sludge. A quick look through the Internet will give you a ball park estimate but to save you the time it is about 1.4 million dry tonnes in the UK and about 7 million … Continue reading →

Hi WaterFront followers, The archived webinar is now available for your viewing pleasure below (I apologize for the quality as the recording software has some limitations). The webinar is broken into (3) clips: BlueBox, Case Study – Philadelphia Water Department, Q&A session. Presenters were: Oren Blonder, product marketing manager, Whitewater John Vogtman, water quality engineer, … Continue reading →

WaterFront is proud to bring you a new series on Demand Forecasting and Rate Sensitivity. This first post is a light introduction to the topic and will follow with more technical examples via case studies from John Cook and Edwin Roehl of Advanced Data Mining (ADMI). I hope you enjoy. Why Demand Varies Customer demand … Continue reading →

Recently, the CIPAC working group came out with their conclusions and recommendations on contamination warning systems – mainly the need is there, the technology exists, there is not a one size fits all system, and to make the business case we should look into the dual use of these systems to build an ROI model … Continue reading →

Can something as simple as the water bill have a real impact on water conservation?  Well that depends on if all the pieces of the puzzle come together to make the billing information a powerful tool. The power of advanced metering technology and the billing data for utilities that is now available is giving end … Continue reading →

I am happy to present fellow blogger and author, David Zetland, of the Aguanomics blog and The End of Abundance: economic solutions to water scarcity. This week David agreed to lend his expertise to the community on the topics of water pricing, reducing Non-Revenue Water (NRW) and incentives to induce change. I hope you enjoy, … Continue reading →

Today we introduce a new blog series focusing on communicating the importance of clean drinking water to the consumer. Our guest blogger is Seth Johnstone. Seth works in the water industry helping to make water utility systems more sustainable through innovative technological applications, data-driven decision making, and business process improvement. and here we go… It’s a concept … Continue reading →

Here is the second water quality monitoring post by guest blogger, Eyal Brill PhD, who is the Chief Scientist and Developer of the BlueBox Intelligent Event Detection System for Whitewater’s Quality and Security Division, and Professor at the Holon Institute of Technololgy in Israel. Models for water quality event detection are mainly statistical models. They … Continue reading →

We are starting a new series on Emergency Management featuring guest blogger Jared Serviss. Jared is a Senior Business Continuity and Emergency Management Planner from the City of Calgary. He is the Chair of the Alberta Water and Wastewater Agency Response Network (AbWARN), one of the only WARNs outside of the United States.  Due to … Continue reading →

I just read an interesting article in American Water Intel [December 2011 Issue] I wanted to share titled, “American Water Execs Plan Push for Cohesive Industry Voice.” According to the article the initial idea is being spearheaded by American Water ‘s CEO Jeff Sterba and backed by Xylem CEO Gretchen  McClain, Pentair CEO Randall Hogan, … Continue reading →

Hi Water Quality and Water Security Bloggers, A topic of recent interest, and being actively discussed on this blog, linkedin’s Water Security and Water Industry Process Automation and Control groups, as well as by market analysts is the Smart Water Network. Here is another F&S presentation highlighting 3 key issues: 1) Issues of Water and … Continue reading →