Purchase price v lifetime cost

You may have read our thought piece about the lifetime cost of a logger.

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Water crisis in the Middle East

Hannah Lynch has written an excellent article on the water crisis in the Middle East.

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Trunk mains

We often talk about ageing infrastructure as one of the challenges facing the water industry.

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New Android app will enable technicians to configure water network data loggers from their mobile or tablet

i2O, the smart water network solutions company, today announced that it has launched a new mobile application that will enable technicians to configure and view real time data from its data loggers using Android mobile phones and tablets.

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Feeling the heat

Temperature records have been broken around the world this year. The UK is enjoying a heatwave. At least most of us are. But the water companies are feeling the heat.

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Russians hack control rooms

The Wall Street Journal reports that Russian hacking group Dragonfly APT has accessed utilities’ control rooms.

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New Delhi the new Cape Town

New Delhi will run out of groundwater in two years as India faces ‘day zero’ crises, according to the Telegraph.

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Can we trust AI?

‘Can we trust AI?‘ asks Technology of Business reporter Marianne Lehnis. Before we answer or even ask that question, we should ask: ‘Can we trust humans?’ They can’t always articulate why they make the decisions they make, and even when they do we know that this is mostly a post hoc rationalisation for an unconscious […]

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Can water companies handle big data?

In short, the answer is no. But not for the reason you might think. More monitoring devices, especially on the network, are yielding ever increasing volumes of potentially valuable data.

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Water Security

When you hear that there has been a meeting of the Ministerial Council for National Security in Iraq chaired by Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, you would be forgiven if you didn’t guess it was about water.

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Let’s tow an iceberg

The situation in Cape Town was an obvious trigger for the revival of the ‘tow an iceberg’ answer. There’s a long history of iceberg lunacy. In 1825 it was suggested that they could be towed into the southern ocean to equalise the temperature of the earth.

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NASA warns about water

Water shortages will be the key environmental challenge of the century according to NASA. New data from NASA’s Grace satellite has revealed the extent of the problem.

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