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In 2017 the United States experienced one of the worst dam failures in recent history when the Oroville Dam partially split, causing major downstream evacuations and damages. The cause of the problem was unstable bedrock beneath the dam that consequently eroded and structural weakness due to …
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The pre-industrial city of Angkor in Southern Cambodia, most famous for the ruins of Angkor Wat today - with its heyday in the 13th century, had a very complex water infrastructure system. The features of this system included and were not limited to man-made lakes as reservoirs, canals, moats, …
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"Demand Management" is the second part of Ross Waugh's lecture at the University of Auckland in May 2019. Ross begins his lecture with the thought that he will be sharing information that one can use whether or not they would pursue doing asset management plan. He reviewed some slides he …
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Ross Waugh conducted a lecture on Asset Management Planning and Demand Management at the University of Auckland in May 2019. We divided Ross' lecture into two parts because the video is more than two hours. "Asset Management Planning" is the first part of Ross' lecture. It covers the …
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In our previous blog, "Water Shortage in Manila – How Asset Management Planning Helps," we wrote about the water crisis in the east end of Metro Manila. While we have mentioned that the shortage advisories started in early March, the water crisis have been hovering all along. Manila Water, …
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In the USA, many water infrastructure upgrades are going to be needed in the next couple of decades. There is a growing concern, however, that with many laborers in this field set to retire soon, there may not be enough people to do the jobs. Brookings Metropolitan Policy Programme, based in …
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Last year, New York City brought a long-overdue water project to completion by the activation of a new drinking water tunnel from Brooklyn to Staten Island. The $250 million-tunnel was delayed when Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012. Ironically, disasters such as Sandy are the very reason that this …
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Harvey and Irma were the two tropical cyclones that battered the US coasts in late August 2017. Both storm systems were classified as major hurricanes. Hurricane Harvey with its 130 mph wind was classified as Category 4, while Hurricane Irma was Category 5 with her winds reaching 185 mph. As …
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When I came across an article on how some organizations are pursuing ISO 55000 for the sake of getting the prestige and using it for marketing purposes, my thought was these organizations are missing a lot. I can see two significant values you are investing on with ISO 55000: You are adding …
News21’s investigative report that around 63 million Americans are exposed to unsafe drinking water is making headlines in the USA’s major online news agencies. The report examined the Environmental Protection Agency violations on water quality and monitoring affecting places from California to …
Talking about "Using Uncertainty Theory in Asset Management Planning" Ross explains the advantage of making lots of small decisions. In this post, Ross gives an illustration and discusses further. The other thing is thinking about a car or a boat or something like that. When you’re going in …
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So, uncertainty theory. And I know hopefully you’ve been exposed to a little bit of that. If you haven’t, Dr. Henning will be no doubt pleased to point you in the right direction but you can use uncertainty theory and statistics as a planning tool with infrastructure. And it assists in going, so …
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