PNCWA Asset Management Committee Newsletter #9

This newsletter has, obviously, become more of a quarterly + newsletter. While I had intentions of writing monthly last year, it just doesn't seem to happen, so in the Announcements Section below I provide some links to two website/blogs that you can review between newsletters. Also in this newsletter, there are some great links to articles and training video's that hopefully will help you develop your physical asset management program. Please feel free to email or use the… Continue

Added by Marc W. Yarlott, P.E. on August 14, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Follow MyWaterPlantJobs.com on Twitter

MyWaterPlantJobs.com is now "twittering" - http://twitter.com/mwpj Follow water & wastewater treatment jobs and career news with us now. Continue

Added by Phil Collins on June 19, 2009 at 8:26pm — 1 Comment

Water Quality Index Calculator

Click here to use the calculator right away. Water Quality Index(WQI) is a scale which help to estimate an overall quality of water based on the values of water quality parameters.The biggest problem of WQI is, the quality of water varies with the source of water collection and the standard range of acceptability which varies between national and international bodies.The index used for estimation of water quality of drinking water can not… Continue

Added by Mrinmoy Majumder on May 24, 2009 at 8:03am — 1 Comment

2nd Degrees Migration

I am having nothing but trouble using my username and pass work on 2nd Degrees. Is anyone else having difficulity? Tim Crowley Continue

Added by Tim Crowley on May 21, 2009 at 8:20am — 1 Comment

Promoting Water Conservation, Water Purification And Clean Drinking Water

Global Water – Promoting Water Conservation, Water Purification And Clean Drinking Water

Author: Global Water Program Management Office

Water, one of the basic requirements for survival is facing a crisis. Unfortunately, one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water, while more than two, out of six lack adeq

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Added by O Conservation on May 5, 2009 at 8:45am — No Comments

6 Critical Skills Needed To Be a Successful Environmental Professional in the Global “Green” Economy

The “Green” economy is on the way and America has a shortage of environmental professionals. As the stimulus package takes effect, companies will need these professionals to have well rounded skills and the ability to produce results. If you are looking to get hired early in the American economy's “Green” upswing, it is vitally important that your resume showcases your achievements, experience and skills in at least three of the following six skill areas: 1. The ability to create and manage bus… Continue

Added by Stephen Hinton on March 21, 2009 at 12:42pm — No Comments

The Credit Crunch And The Water Industry

With the global economy still on shaky ground, how will the water industry be affected? It's impossible to make any real predictions - to do so would be foolish. One thing that seems likely, however, is that when it all blows over, water may well seem like a 'safe bet' for cautious investors. Many of the largest infrastructure projects are in the Middle East, which until very recently benefited from high oil prices which pumped billions of dollars of extra revenue into government coffers. Now t… Continue

Added by Damian Corbet on March 17, 2009 at 2:42am — 6 Comments

Quest for water

There’s still water in the swamps, and I don’t mean the fake stuff you see in the canals. To see the real stuff you have to set your compass away from the canal and head toward the trees ... Cypress trees to be exact. View a video clip of me doing just that in The South Florida Watershed Journal.

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Added by Robert Sobczak on March 11, 2009 at 8:42pm — No Comments

The South Florida Watershed Journal

Water is not a dry science -- it's wet, and usually flowing. And up north, it usually needs to be crossed. See exclusive video of what water does best -- flowing downhill -- in The South Florida Watershed Journal

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Added by Robert Sobczak on March 10, 2009 at 6:02pm — 3 Comments

PNCWA Asset Management Committee Newsletter #8

Wow, it has been a long time since I wrote one of these newsletters (October 08). In the months in between, I have been contacted several times by readers with questions mainly around Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) implementations. Some have started projects during the past year and others are getting ready to move ahead. With that in mind, I have tried to focus the comments and articles featured here towards gaining the basic understanding of database design, documenting your… Continue

Added by Marc W. Yarlott, P.E. on March 5, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Peak Water and You

In a recent Wired Magazine, there was an article about Peak Water, similar to the Peak Oil topic that is often discussed. As we near or pass Peak Water, are we personally doing our best to save water? Saving water is not only a low flow faucet or shower head, it includes the water it takes to create the products you use. The website below provides some great information and you can check out your W… Continue

Added by Marc W. Yarlott, P.E. on November 4, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Four Stages on the Road to Underground Asset Management

I had an opportunity to co-author an article in the latest issue of Underground Infrustructure Management. The article discusses the fundamentals of Asset Management including highlight four key stages on the road to true asset management success. Stage 1: Field Activities - Know what you have and what condition it is in Stage 2: Analysis - Understand what is critical to achieving an appropriate Level of Service (LOS) Stage 3: Planning - Prioritize what to fix first Stage 4: Capital Program… Continue

Added by Marc W. Yarlott, P.E. on November 3, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

New Features on MyWaterPlantJobs.com

Back again with another update on progress at MyWaterPlantJobs.com. We've teamed with Indeed.com to take job postings on MyWaterPlantJobs.com to a much larger audience. With more than 9 million unique visitors each month (approaching 10 million), Indeed.com has surpassed Monster.com and CareerBuilder when it comes to job search engines! In fact, some of Indeed.com's cl… Continue

Added by Phil Collins on October 30, 2008 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association Asset Management Newsletter #7

Dear Waterspheres Reader,

I emailed out this copy of the Pacific Northwest Cleanwater Association, Asset Management Committee Newsletter the other day and thought I would post it here for waterspheres readers too. If you would like to get your own copy of this newsletter when it is mailed out, you can join the mailing list by going to the sign-up page at http://s-9j9tm-37347.sgizmo.com/. Thanks for r… Continue

Added by Marc W. Yarlott, P.E. on October 28, 2008 at 12:08pm — No Comments

During the past 10 months that MyWaterPlantJobs.com has been online, I've learned a lot about some t…

During the past 10 months that MyWaterPlantJobs.com has been online, I've learned a lot about some topics which had previously never crossed my radar screen. Stuff like job board software, website design, search engine optimization (SEO), business & social networks (like Waterspheres), affiliate programs, html, pay-per-click advertising, Google Analytics...etc. In this blog post and a few more to come, I hope to give you some information about t… Continue

Added by Phil Collins on October 27, 2008 at 4:13pm — No Comments

New guy "on the water front"

Hello, I just signed in to this group and wanted to briefly introduce myself. I am a hydrologist with the National Park Service, down in south Florida, at Big Cypress National Preserve. I also am author of a "Florida water" blog, entitled: The South Florida Watershed Journal (1) Please take a look, and (2) Let me know what you think. Do you know of others with similar "inside the hydro-number" blogs? Many Thanks and Take Care, Bob Continue

Added by Robert Sobczak on September 25, 2008 at 2:59pm — 4 Comments

Great site!

Waterspheres is a great site & tool for professionals engaged in the "water business!" I salute this effort. Haven't times changed! As a recruiter, I can remember actually mailing a printed resume to a client for review. The drill went something like this... a. receive a printed letter and resume from a candidate (sent 2-3 days earlier) b. phone the candidate to discuss their interests and positions available with my clients c. make a copy of the candidate's resume, type and print a cover… Continue

Added by Phil Collins on September 19, 2008 at 7:45am — 1 Comment

Legal and Financial Implications for Not Having or Following an Asset Management Plan

August 20, 2008, the The Honolulu Advertiser provided the latest in the ongoing implications of a lawsuit filed against the Honolulu City/County in 2004 by the Sierra Club, Hawaii's Thousand Friends and Our Children's Earth Foundation. The condition of the Honolulu City/County sewage system was exemplified on March 24, 2006, when… Continue

Added by Marc W. Yarlott, P.E. on August 28, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Hot Dry Summers and Wetter Winters may be the Outcome of Climate Change

Today I came across an article which proposes, and backs up with data, that the effect of climate change may not only be hot/dry summers but also winters where flooding becomes a serious issue. This is based on work in the UK over the past several years and looking at trends in temperature and rain fall to draw some interesting conclusions. For those of us who are interested in Asset Management and Capital Investment, the implications of these changes in peak flow and demand could have a signif… Continue

Added by Marc W. Yarlott, P.E. on August 25, 2008 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

NEW ARSENIC WOOD FIELD TESTING KIT

Now available from Industrial Test Systems, Inc. is a quick, easy, field test kit that can confirm the presence of inorganic Arsenic presence in wood. Arsenic Quick™ 481396-W kit is a modification of the US Patented, ETV Verified arsenic test for drinking water. This 10 minutes test readily confirms the absence or presence of Arsenic in any wood sample, including CCA treated lumber using safe reagents. The semi-quantitative test detects the presence of 1 µg of inorganic arsenic with a yellow to… Continue

Added by Mike McBride on August 21, 2008 at 1:42pm — No Comments

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