water infrastructure assets Articles

Assessing human resources renovation needs in water utilities

Human resources are one of the most important assets of water utilities (WUs), being responsible for assuring systems management and playing an important role in the tacit forms of organizational knowledge. In organizations with responsibility for managing extensive, diverse infrastructure with long life-cycles, with adequate service and acceptable risk levels, knowledge transfer between ...

Jan. 1, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Highlights of key international water infrastructure asset management initiatives, and trends, challenges and developments in Portugal

Over the last two decades, remarkable progress in the Portuguese drinking water and wastewater services sector has been achieved. Nevertheless, it faces a serious challenge in trying to ensure long-term sustainability. There is equally scope for considerable efficiency and effectiveness gains. The national strategic plan for the period 2014–2020 has assigned a prominent role to infrastructure ...

Oct. 6, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Municipal water demand and efficiency analysis: Case studies in Turkey

The growing demand for municipal water due to population increase and urbanization impels water managers to reconsider the existing traditional supply-sided management approach. Strengthening of water demand management (WDM) policies by improving water use efficiency has been adopted as a key target in arid regions, in particular. Indeed, increasing the added value per m3 of water used is gaining ...

Oct. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

Comprehensive Infrastructure Renewal Program Addresses Aging Water and Sewer Infrastructure in Miami-Dade County

As industry studies continue to highlight the issues surrounding aging water and sewer infrastructure, policy-makers at the local, state and national level of government are beginning to recognize the problem and make infrastructure renewal programs a priority. One approach that combats the issues surrounding aging water infrastructure is asset management. This approach to infrastructure renewal ...

Aug. 2, 2015

By Pure Technologies - a Xylem brand

Benefits Realized Through Asset Management Practices at Eastern Municipal Water District

In late 1999, Eastern Municipal Water District’s (EMWD) Board of Directors and Senior Managers recognized the importance of asset management in providing service to its customers and directed staff to implement a comprehensive asset management program based on best practices. The District recognized early on that total organization commitment was necessary to achieve success in asset management ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

York Region’s Water and Wastewater Guidelines and Standards: Consensus Building – the Key to Success!

ABSTRACTPrior to August 2006, the Regional Municipality of York’s Water and Wastewater Branch was operating with an existing set of Design Guidelines and Standards which were in need of updating. These guidelines and standards were also not being consistently applied to all of the Region’s water and wastewater infrastructure projects. The Region recognized the need to improve the Design ...

Oct. 13, 2007

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Managing and developing the water resources assets in kaliningrad oblast, russia in support of economic growth and environmental sustainability

Key messages on water, growth and sustainability The water resources and the hydraulic infrastructure assets in the Kaliningrad Oblast are in a poor condition. This situation poses a direct threat to both the human and natural environments in the region. Regular flooding, polluted water bodies and inadequate water supply and sanitation provide evidence that water resources management need to ...

Aug. 17, 2011

By Stockholm International Water Institute

Infrastructure asset management – the TRUST approach and professional tools

Strategic asset management (AM) of urban water infrastructures faces the challenge of dealing with expensive and long-lasting assets of a very diverse nature and wide-ranging useful lives and costs. Typically, utility managers inherit an infrastructure with assets in assorted conditions and stages in their lifecycle. They are expected to manage their value in order to ensure adequate service, ...

Mar. 11, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Are our Water Systems at Risk?

Assessing the Financial Sustainability of BC’s Municipal Water and Sewer Systems Reliable water, sewer, and storm water systems are essential to public health, a clean environment, and a strong economy. But British Columbia’s systems may be at risk – aging infrastructure, growth, strengthened regulations, seismic risk, and climate change are driving the need for significant ...

Feb. 1, 2015

By British Columbia Water & Waste Association (BCWWA)

Emergency Vs. Maintenance Repairs for Utilities.

With populations rising throughout towns and cities in the United States there is a growing need to improve the nation’s water and wastewater infrastructures. Reliable water provisions are needed for continued development and sustenance. At the same time, it is necessary to properly discharge wastewater clinically and efficiently. Much of the inadequacies with water and wastewater assets ...

Jan. 7, 2016

By EnTech Engineering Company

A framework for considering externalities in urban water asset management

Urban communities rely on a complex network of infrastructure assets to connect them to water resources. There is considerable capital investment required to maintain, upgrade and extend this infrastructure. As the remit of a water utility is broader than just financial considerations, infrastructure investment decisions must be made in light of environmental and societal issues. One way of ...

Dec. 1, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Energy efficiency in water distribution systems – a path to an ideal network: AGS experience

Infrastructure asset management (IAM) gave a step forward in Portuguese water utilities due to recent legal obligations in developing IAM plans. An effort was made by AGS (Administração e Gestão de Sistemas de Salubridade, S.A.), private operator in 17 water utilities, to achieve a higher level of managing data. Data management was an important hurdle to be overcome in ...

Aug. 6, 2014

By IWA Publishing

A utility-tailored methodology for integrated asset management of urban water infrastructure

This paper presents the integrated methodology for infrastructure asset management (IAM) developed in AWARE-P, an R&D project aimed at producing adequate and effective support tools for assisting urban water utilities in decision making and rehabilitation planning (www.aware-p.org). The proposed methodology addresses all three planning and decisional levels (strategic, tactical and ...

Nov. 20, 2013

By IWA Publishing

The world watches as evides manages steel main with innovative technology, and outstanding results follow

It was a perfect day for an inspection. Under a crisp blue sky, in the polders along a major motorway near Rotterdam, more than 40 water professionals from The Netherlands, Australia and the UK gathered to witness a unique project undertaken by the water utility Evides Watercompany. The purpose of the project was to showcase the 24-sensor PipeDiver®, an innovative tool from Pure Technologies ...

Nov. 14, 2016

By Pure Technologies - a Xylem brand

Debunking Murphy`s Law - Utilities address conditions to reduce risk of failure in aging metallic pipelines

According to an adapted Murphy's Law, "anything that can fail, will fail." While that universal engineering law has been proven true again and again, many utilities are working diligently to reduce the risk of failure by taking measures to improve the service life of their aging metallic assets. In North America, with the majority of water infrastructure reaching the end of its design life, ...

Sep. 25, 2015

By Pure Technologies - a Xylem brand

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