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Banyan Water Helps Businesses Curb Water Waste

April 10, 2015April 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Smart water management company Banyan Water has introduced a water monitoring system that tracks all irrigation water use on a property and provides alerts if leaks are detected. The company says its Irrigation Insight can be instrumental in helping facility managers comply with local or state water restrictions enacted during ... Read more »

Electro Scan’s Water Leak Detection Technology Features Automatic Data Capture

April 7, 2015April 6, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Electro Scan, which develops water leak detection instrumentation, says its technology can automatically identified any water leak at a pipe joint, service connection, pinhole or crack in a pipe wall without operator interpretation or third-party data analysis. As California enters its fourth year of drought conditions, the technology is especially ... Read more »

Sensus Smart Water Tech Can Save Utilities $12.5bn Annually

March 24, 2015March 24, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Georgia’s Etowah Water & Sewer Authority has selected the Sensus FlexNet communication system and iPERL meters, which the smart water technology company says can improve utilities’ system performance and reduce inefficiencies, resulting in up to $12.5 billion in annual savings. In addition to the utility’s aging water infrastructure, recent droughts in ... Read more »

Smart Irrigation Service Enables Compliance with CA Water Restrictions

March 23, 2015March 20, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

In response to the California State Water Resources Control Board’s statewide water restrictions imposed last week, ETwater is moving up the availability on the release of its smart irrigation subscription service. The subscription service automatically adjusts an irrigation system with an outdoor watering schedule that uses only the minimum amount ... Read more »

Water Treatment System Helps Cambria During Drought

March 4, 2015March 4, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Membrane filtration manufacturer H2O Innovation has delivered a containerized advanced water treatment system to the Cambria Community Service District in California to help the community overcome the impact of the historic drought affecting the state. The system, designed to be used during the dry months, produces a flow rate of ... Read more »

Recycled Water Filling Stations Available for Commercial Trucks

February 12, 2015February 11, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Commercial trucks can now use recycled water instead of drinking water for three approved uses — construction trucks that spray water to keep down dust at construction sites, city trucks that perform sewer cleanouts, and street sweeping trucks that mist the street surface as they sweep — in two California ... Read more »

How Drought Affects Water Management Strategies

December 11, 2014December 10, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Businesses can better visualize water shortages — and develop water management strategies accordingly — with help from an interactive California Drought visualization website that aims to provide atlas-like, statewide coverage of the drought and a timeline of its impacts on water resources. The US Geological Survey developed the interactive website ... Read more »

EPA to Help Utilities Increase Climate Change Resilience

November 24, 2014November 21, 2014 by Ken Jennison

The EPA is providing up to $600,000 in training and technical assistance to help water utilities in more than 20 communities increase their climate change resilience and readiness. Utilities for drinking water, wastewater and stormwater will participate in a multi-year program to prepare for potential impacts from climate change. Challenges ... Read more »

Free Web Tool Cuts Water Use, Costs

November 14, 2014November 14, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Smart irrigation and water management firm ETwater has launched a free web tool that aims to reduce water useage and costs. It combines AccuWeather localized weather data with an array of soil, plant and environmental data to create optimized usage plans that replace wasteful manual estimates and equipment. The company ... Read more »

Water Shortage Puts Companies, Investments at Risk

October 9, 2014October 8, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Both US assets and entire companies — including UNS Energy, Black Hills Corporation, MGE Energy and Sempra Energy — are at risk due to choices soon to be made over whether to use water for crop production or electricity generation, according to a report from MSCI’s Environmental, Sustainability & Governance ... Read more »

GEMI, EDF Expand Water Efficiency Toolkit

October 8, 2014October 7, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Environmental Management Initiative and Environmental Defense Fund have teamed up to expand the adoption of their water efficiency toolkit for companies in water-stressed areas as drought conditions persist on the West Coast and throughout the Southwest. The EDF-GEMI Water Management Application (WaterMAPP) toolkit is a MS Excel-based, multi-tabbed ... Read more »

Exelon to Build ‘Cleanest’ Natural Gas Units

September 30, 2014September 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Exelon Generation is planning to build two combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) units in Texas using a new General Electric technology that it says will make them among the cleanest, most efficient CCGTs in the state and the nation. The new units are being built on existing Exelon sites: one at ... Read more »

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