Each year the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo is filled with new products and technologies that can help cities and utilities do a better job maintaining and repairing their infrastructure.
Many of these innovations come from major manufacturers and software developers who show up with large booths and a dozen or more exhibit staff. Others come from startup companies in the basic 10-by-10 booth along a back wall.
Just where do all these ideas originate? Fairly often, they start in the mind of a water or wastewater employee who sees a problem in the field and just can’t rest until it is














