Must do more

Water companies around the world are being asked to do more.

Artesia Consulting & i2O Water strategic partnership

Artesia Consulting and i2O Water are delighted to announce a global strategic partnership that will make Artesia’s Data Analytics software available to i2O’s clients as part of the iNet advanced analytics solution.

Day Zero – Lessons for New Zealand

New Zealand is widely regarded as having dealt well with one crisis: COVID-19.  But there’s another one they appear to be struggling with.

Lessons From Lockdown

Not a school curriculum for remote learning but two observations.

Black Swan Events

Wave for water

World Water Day

The UN News says that water resources are often overlooked, but are an essential part of the solution to climate change.

Coronavirus outbreak

Coronavirus is impacting most things. First the good news.

It's alarming

The cost to instrument a network has fallen dramatically.  You can get a pressure/flow logger for less than £200, US$260, EUR230 at today’s exchange rates. But what’s not so easy is to make use of the information that’s derived from those devices. Today we want to highlight just one function: alarms.

Regulators get tough

The UK’s regulator is seen as having been tough on UK water companies in its recent price determination. Headlines such as “It's about time Ofwat got tougher on 'game-playing' water companies” suggest that there isn’t much public sympathy. But Northumbrian Water, Anglian Water, Yorkshire Water and Bristol Water are all appealing.  Thames Water, who had been thought likely to appeal, accepted the determination because fighting it would be a “significant management distraction.”  And they lost a CEO candidate in the process.