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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A Simple Tool to Evaluate the True Cost of Growth   Water Engineering & Management February 2003   David Eckhoff
When a random sample of Utahans were asked in January 2000 what was the most important issue facing Utah today, growth ranked at the top of the list. Growth is inevitable. However, something can be done to control development patterns to head off crowding, congestion, pollution and lost open space.
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Keeping Meters On Line: Accurately Measuring Drinking Water and Sewage   Water Engineering & Management September 2002   Rodney Johnson
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department (DWSD) has a high stake in keeping its flowmeters up and running with calibrated accuracy. This is especially true for its 278 wholesale water meters used in its vast network of distribution lines that serve 126 communities. It also is true for metering sewage inputs from wholesale customers for its Wastewater Treatment Plant. This article focuses on a unique answer that DWSD found for keeping its magnetic meters online by means of a portable electronic system that verifies and certifies calibration, all done in-line.
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Small Town Finds Big Technology Affordable   Water Engineering & Management November 2001   By Mary Turner
Rapid changes in technology make it vital for small utilities such as Wrightstown to update their systems. IPMC software components make it easy to update, integrate and expand the applications. Non-proprietary software helps ensure that data will be available and usable with existing or future system software. Data preservation in an open architecture format allows for data migration to other software applications as may be required when working with an engineering consultant.
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VSP Approach to Improve Customer Service   Water Engineering & Management September 2001
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC WASA) has entered a Vertical Service Provider (VSP) partnership with ORCOM to replace its current water billing system.
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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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Flexible Monitoring System Helps Ohio Company Meet Daily EPA Measurement Requirements   Water & Wastes Digest May 2001
An Ohio utility company provides water plant operator services to facilities throughout the state, including several very large travel center operations. Daily monitoring became time consuming and costly, so they sought a more efficient solution by investigating plant monitoring systems.
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Web-Based and Wireless REVOLUTIONS   Water Quality Products May 2001   Lorraine Keating, Prism Visual Software
The media predicts that virtually all work as we know it soon will be Web-based and wireless. With the proliferation of PDAs and cell phones, and with their continually decreasing costs, this statement is hard to refute. An article published in Software Technology magazine stated that to characterize this new technology as a "revolution" is an understatement. Rather it is a "cataclysmic change."
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New SCADA System Reduces Downtime at Omaha Utility   Water & Wastes Digest January 2001

Like all municipalities, the agency responsible for the distribution of natural gas and water throughout the metropolitan area of Omaha, Nebraska – the Metropolitan Utilities District (MUD) – needed a SCADA system that is user-friendly and failsafe.

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New Software Upgrades Process Control For Operators At New York Plant   Water & Wastes Digest August 2000
Recently, the village of Honeoye Falls, New York, found a relatively inexpensive way to upgrade the process control system at its wastewater treatment facility. They used Rotork PakScan software and an old, recycled computer.

New Software Improves Process In Detroit Plant   Water & Wastes Digest January 2000

Computers: In the Background   Water Quality Products January 1999
The presence of a certain synergy between hardware and software is needed to create a reliable and profitable computer installation.

Computer Billing for the Dealer   Water Quality Products February 1998   Mike McCarty
For most dealers, the first and foremost application for a computer is billing. However, most dealers have several unique billing requirements.

Profit, Productivity and Today's Technology for the Water Filtration and Bottled Water Industries   Water Quality Products February 1998   Lorraine Keating
All successful bottled water and water filtration business owners know that the integration of all operational phases of their business is crucial.

SCADA Optimizes Plant Performance   Water Engineering & Management February 1997
SCADA gives plant operators the tools they need to develop new process strategies and implement new controls, lowering operating costs while improving effluent quality. Overall, SCADA makes it easier to optimize the plant's performance.