Entries Tagged Asset Management

With just 17,000 residents, the city of Cocoa, Fla., is fairly small. But it has a huge water system: 1,325 miles of...

Water. Some communities are constantly struggling to conserve it; others are fighting off the problems caused by excess volumes. And for some,...

Spend some time around Tacoma Water, and you might not hear the word “maintenance” very much.It’s not that the utility serving the...

In the past year, we’ve posted hundreds of stories to MSWmag.com. They include everything we know you love — municipal profiles, blogs,...

As a public works professional, you know how valuable maintenance and asset management software is in your efforts to maintain and operate...

Magnetic-RFID identifies underground assets quicklyProblem Underground utility asset location and identification is a very costly problem for utilities and municipalities. Problems range from...

The Augusta (Ga.) Utilities Department has been tackling a systemwide evaluation under the guidance of a consent order from the Georgia Department...

In an extensive report to municipalities and water/wastewater utilities, the nonprofit Water Finance Research Foundation has ranked software suppliers on their ability...

Efficiency is something we could all use more of. Everyone would like to get more done with less time, energy and money. As...

The goal of the City of Santa Rosa Utilities Department is to maximize resources (water, biosolids, digester gas and nutrients) while striving...

“Investing in a complete GIS system with full functionality produces an overall reduction in operating and maintenance costs and can become the...

The nonprofit Water Finance Research Foundation (WFRF) has completed a review of major computerized maintenance management and infrastructure asset management systems used...

As a public works professional, you know how valuable maintenance and asset management software is in your efforts to maintain and operate...

Today's water and wastewater utilities don't lack for data; modern technologies provide scads of it. The key to effective utility ...