Replacing the London Water Supply SCADA System   Water Engineering & Management March 2003   Neil Parker, B.Sc., C.Eng., MICE, CIWEM
For Thames Water, managing the process of water abstraction through to delivering treated water to more than five million customers in London involves plant control at more than 150 locations. Most of these are unmanned as the London Water Supply (LWS) supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system carries remote control signals to operate the plant and to monitor its status. The move to a new system was driven by the increasing business need to be able to share data within the SCADA system with other operational and management information systems.
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Routing Issues: From Paperwork to PDA Efficiency   Water Quality Products October 2002   Lorraine Keating, Prism Visual Software, Inc.
By now, handhelds have enjoyed enormous popularity in any industry that deals with deliveries, services or exchanges. The bottled water and water treatment industries are not an exception. PDAs enhance performance, accuracy and cost-efficiency.
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Growing City Lets Model Take Guesswork Out of Sewer Planning   Water Engineering & Management July 2001
Enormous growth in population and industry has placed major challenges on one city’s infrastructure planning operations. An existing GIS system helped with the development of a graphical hydraulic model for the sewers, discovering problem areas and saving the city money on unnecessary upgrades.
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Riding the Tides to Information Integration and Improved Performance   Water Engineering & Management March 2001   Paul Borzo
San Diego Water has taken a giant technological leap forward. It has gone from a 15-year-old monitoring system operating with tone telemetry on leased lines to a state-of-the-art supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that integrates numerous technology systems throughout the enterprise.
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Data Acquisition, Legacy Systems and Your Intranet   Water & Wastes Digest February 2001   By Fred Noble
There are lots of parallels between the events of November 2000 and the events that take place in any factory or municipality that runs a process or monitors its effluent. The technology exists to achieve the much-talked-about six sigma (3.4 errors per million events) levels of measurement quality or process integrity. But antiquated legacy systems keep getting in the way. And, as is the case on the American political scene, it just is not that easy to replace those old methods of measuring things.