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, through their Chief Operating Officer Geodino Carpio admitted that while the dry season and El Niño … [Read more...]
Water Shortage in Manila – How Asset Management Planning Helps
Central Metro Manila area with Ortigas Center, Bonifacio Global City and Makati skyline. Source: Wikipedia A huge issue that can happen to a water utility service company and its customers is failing to provide enough or no supply of its primary commodity. This is happening in Metro Manila, particularly with the Manila Water Company. Since early March, water supply shortage has besieged … [Read more...]
Water Utility Management – Using Social Media to Communicate and Keep Levels of Service
In our previous blog post, "The Manila Water Model – Community Engagement with Water Utility Management" we mentioned how the water utility company goes to the grassroots level in water management. Well, we based that blog post on the article that we read on the Malaysian publication. In the process of learning about the Manila Water Company, we discovered that they are using social media … [Read more...]
The Manila Water Model – Community Engagement with Water Utility Management
In the mid-90s the Philippine Government recognized that they had a national water crisis on their hands. Only 26% of the residents of Metro Manila had 24-hour access to drinkable water and the poor of the city didn't have access to clean drinking water at all. In 1997 this changed dramatically for the East Zone of Metro Manila when the Manila Water Company utility took over management of … [Read more...]
Water Utility Management Lessons from Lansing’s Water System Project
Lansing, Michigan has succeeded in replacing all of it's 12,500 lead pipes. This large project has come at a high cost for the utility, but with careful investment, it has become a very manageable cost. The city has succeeded in avoiding problems that have arisen in other areas of the state of Michigan by thinking ahead and realizing that replacing old water infrastructure is crucial and … [Read more...]
Asset Management Career in the Water Infrastructure Sector Pushed
In the USA, many water infrastructure upgrades are going to be needed in the next couple of decades. There is 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 Washington D.C., have recently been thinking through this problem and have held a conference in hopes … [Read more...]
California Legislation Recognizes Watersheds as Critical Infrastructure
It is no secret that the US State of California has spent the last hundred years creating a vast system and network of pipes, pump stations, and aqueducts that reach far and wide into distant regions in order to filter water from remote rivers into hard to reach dry zones in the Southern part of the state. It's an engineering marvel, but only so long as the ecosystems they are drawing from can … [Read more...]
Infrastructure Asset Management Impacts of the Electronic Vehicle Disruption in
Tony Seba has published an updated lecture: The Electric Vehicle Disruption - End of Oil 2030 Having attended a lecture by Tony Seba two years ago, I have found his analysis coherent, well-researched, and well worth taking note of. If you are involved in transportation infrastructure management, or you own an internal combustion engine vehicle, then this presentation is well worth your … [Read more...]
ASCE 2017 Infrastructure Report Card and Asset Management Planning
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) release a report on the state of the USA’s general infrastructure both on a Federal and State level every few years, with the previous report being issued in 2013. The ASCE conducts this detailed report in sixteen major target areas of infrastructure, such as Roads, Transit, Rail, Inland Waterways, Wastewater and Drinking water to name a … [Read more...]
Infrastructure Asset Management Solution to US Septic System Challenge
Nearly one-fifth of households in the USA are attached to septic tanks. These systems are generally fine when they are properly maintained but problems have become more frequent within these small waste management systems. Raw sewage leaks from septic tanks are causing health risks and ecological damage nationwide. Many research experts believe that this could be avoided by … [Read more...]
Dealing with Montreal, Quebec’s 7.5 Billion Liters of Sewage – Infrastructure Management Thoughts
The city of Montreal, Quebec had planned to dump 7.5 billion liters of wastewater into the nearby St. Lawrence River on the 25th of October 2015, but the government, just one week away from the election, intervened and ordered them not to. The sewage dump was part of a plan to move a snow chute but the Canadian government, a US Senator and the public had major concerns about how the … [Read more...]
World’s Biggest Thermal Hydrolysis Waste-to-Energy System and Infrastructure Management Planning
Washington DC should be the first city in the U.S. to start using thermal hydrolysis to convert biosolids from wastewater into renewable methane. The facility at Blue Plains then uses the methane to feed into three giant turbines which produce electricity at a net of 10 megawatts. Clean Technica reports: "At a price tag of $470 million, the new thermal hydrolysis system has been 10 years in … [Read more...]
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