water industry data Articles
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Investment efficiency in the Italian water service industry: a benchmarking study using data envelopment analysis (DEA)
The paper presents a benchmarking study of the Italian water service industry using data envelopment analysis. Sample investigated in the study includes 38 optimal territorial areas (ATOs), where the ATO is a well circumscribed geographical area where the provision of integrated water services is considered efficient. Results of DEA implementation show that the average pure technical and scale ...
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The Emergence of Digitizing the Water Sector
Introduction: How much important is it to digitize the water industry? The water and the utility sectors have been understood in their entirety as a supply chain, that they have an extremely high strategic value. With India continuing to fall down the chart as compared to other countries in terms of access to safe water, plus with the overall population that is expected to touch 1.6 billion ...
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Using AI to detect water bursts and cut leak response times
Using AI to detect water bursts helps water companies improve rapid decision-making, be more resource efficient and cut leak response times dramatically. But what makes AI such an effective tool and how does its accuracy and potential keep expanding? Our CTO Neil Edwards explains all. DETECTING leaks has long been a process involving manual decision-making at key points. A decision to replace a ...
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AquaRating - to bridge the financial gap in the WASH sector
How to bridge the financial gap in the WASH sector by helping water utilities become creditworthy? Annually, it has been estimated that approximately 114 billion USD must be spent in the WASH sector if the dedicated water goal, the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) is to be achieved by 2030[i]. However, current annual investment, ≈25 billion USD, is very far from this number. Some ...
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Measuring the efficiency of wastewater services through Data Envelopment Analysis
Efficient water management is a priority in the European Union, since the operational efficiency of many water utilities is very low compared to best practice. Several countries are restructuring the water industry to save costs. Larger-scale operations and vertical integration are promoted to achieve scale and scope economies; however, the literature is not unanimous that such economies exist. ...
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LIMS Key to Quality Data Management in Water Industry
WEFTEC has just wrapped up its 2012 conference – the largest meeting of its kind in North America. The Water Environment Federations’ annual meeting has again delivered comprehensive water quality education and training to thousands of water quality professionals. The leading discussions at WEFTEC this year were centered around emerging research and innovations in the industry. ...
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The Power of Data: The Water Industry Joins the Digital Transformation in Plant Management
The water sector is getting ‘smart’ to provide innovative services and solve problems with automation, data collection and analysis. Almar Water Solutions, through its subsidiary Datakorum, is committed to digital solutions and IoT products and services to manage its water treatment plants. The impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic had on our industry and on society were not all ...
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Hexavalent chromium removal in a tannery industry wastewater using rice husk silica
Present study dealt the removal of Cr(VI) in a tannery industry wastewater using rice husk silica powder as an adsorbent.The experimental investigations have been carried out by using rice husk silica powder for different adsorption dosage, different contact time and different pH against the initial Cr(VI) concentration of 292 mg/L. The maximum percentage removal of Cr(VI) in the tannery ...
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Continuous Water Quality Data Brings New Perspective to Pumping Tests
Continuous Water Quality Data Brings New Perspective to Pumping Tests Overview Looking for a more efficient and reliable method of collecting, transmitting and analyzing data, A&H Well Services designed a custom system using several technologies to expand their capabilities and give customers real-time access to step test and pumping test data. Challenge When Andrew Peters left the oil ...
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Case Study: Wheeling Water Department, West Virginia
Wheeling Water Department in Wheeling, West Virginia, is an independent, municipally owned water utility, serving a population of approximately 50,000 people, including all of Ohio County. Consisting of three divisions, Wheeling Water is responsible for all treatment and testing of the source, finished water and for pumping it to the customers. The utility treats approximately 7.5 million ...
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Groundwater monitoring and assessment with ESdat environmental data management software and its use in groundwater remediation plans
Groundwater investigations, contaminated/industrial sites, landfill and regulatory compliance are all ideal areas for environmental consultants and site managers, specializing in groundwater monitoring and assessment, to use environmental data management software. A successful groundwater remediation plan, used to facilitate the removal of pollution or contaminants from groundwater, sediment or ...
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