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Ross and Grant tackled the next slide, which features Peter Drucker's questions. They explained how these relate to doing infrastructure asset management. Ross says: I think many of you will know about Peter Drucker who was one of the management gurus of the last century and only passed …
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Many U.S. states faced water shortage and drought conditions through 2015. This was partly to do with water sources (such as groundwater or snowpack levels) and partly to do with water and infrastructure management with these sources. USA Today has produced a list of the eight most severely …
"America's Salad Bowl", California's Salinas Valley, is facing a slightly different problem from the rest of the drought-strike state - the problem of having water when nobody else does. This water comes from a single source — Salinas Valley groundwater. What is going to happen by way of …
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In the earlier post, Grant and Ross were talking about "Taking the Right Path to Infrastructure Asset Management Success" and here's the continuation of the conversation. Grant: And I think that’s the risk that certainly some people is like trying to keep to the speed limit, if they’re …
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At this point, Ross presented the slide that has a famous quote of T.S. Eliot as they continue to talk about finding the right direction in undertaking asset management. Grant says: Thanks, Ross. Really one of my favorite quotes from T.S. Eliot, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any …
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Ross Waugh and Grant Holland held the "If I Was Starting Again" Infrastructure Management Discussion webinar on 16 September 2014. They talked about the challenges and best practices in the industry. Inframanage.com is publishing the transcript through a series of blog posts. After …
Douglas County, Colorado has relied on water from shallow aquifers that lie beneath the western prairies for generations. This water has been very inexpensive and now is beginning to run dry. The county commission has set itself a new goal, which is to convince residents to stop using the ancient …
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A few days ago the American electric car maker Tesla announced details of its Model 3 car, priced from USD $35,000. The Model 3 will also be available in some more countries, including New Zealand where I live. Seating 5 adults, and with a range of 215 miles (346 km) per charge the Model 3 is …
Farmers in California are struggling to keep their crops irrigated and have turned to a new solution: buying urban wastewater. The Del Puerto Water District in the Central Valley is headed by Anne Hansen, who has definitely jumped on the urban wastewater solution bandwagon. Buying water on the …
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Medford, Oregon, like many other cities, grappled with the problem of treating sewage without harming fish due to the warm water released into the Rogue River by their wastewater treatment plant. The EPA has rules and regulations about water temperature, but in the past, they were difficult or …
Recently, it came to the attention of the EPA that the Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority (DELCORA) has breached the Clean Water Act with excess sewage overflow due to its combined sewer overflow into the Delaware River and its branches. In order to solve this problem, the …
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“Are there any templates that you are aware of that can serve to track assets, something simple that is already developed which contain headings and indicating the information ones you should track for assets? For example, asset type, location. age, etc.” Heather: Well, we have developed a …
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