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For Roni Deitz, this work is personal. She grew up in New Jersey, so Deitz had never experienced a major hurricane. Then Hurricane Ike stormed ashore the Texas coastline in 2008, while she was an...
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I love my adopted City of London. English poet John Davidson described it far better than I can in the final verse of his poem ‘London’, written over 125 years ago: The parks, the squares, the thoroughfares,The million-peopled lanes and...
You would be hard-pressed to find a water infrastructure conference that does not include a session focused on digital twins. If you have been around long enough, you are also well aware that history is rife with examples of how...
Growing up in a small town in eastern India, we followed the ritual of walking to the nearest hand pump water station twice a day to fill up buckets of drinking water. The alternate water sources were the nearest river...
Every once in a while, I hear someone saying that digitalization (or going digital) is the next big thing in the water industry. Don’t look now but digitalization is here, and it has been here for a few decades. At...
The landscape of the Middle East has been one of the biggest challenges in the region, which has brought about challenges like water scarcity. Though organizations across the globe are working relentlessly to tackle this major threat, the efforts need...
We all want superpowers. At least I do. Maybe we’re not faster than a speeding bullet or can leap tall buildings in a single bound, but your digital twin can give your team members who operate your water distribution systems...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” is one of literature’s most memorable opening paragraphs which also includes the contrasts of wisdom & incredulity, light & dark, and hope & despair (from Charles Dicken’s, A...
Being close to water is something that brings color, peace, and happiness to many. I’ve found that these sentiments are felt not only by those lounging on a beach or strolling on turquoise shores but also by the many stakeholders...
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is more than six months old, and we are now squarely in its “implementation” period where different federal agencies with jurisdiction over the IIJA implement their pieces of it through federal programs. As...
