We’re all looking to improve the quality of our water. Likewise, we’re also in need of improving the quality of our wastewater. How do we do that? Through more efficient and effective wastewater treatment, and by improving the accuracy of monitoring these improved treatment practices, to put it vaguely. Knowing this challenge, we’re sharing specific ways to improve the quality of our water and wastewater.
We’re all looking to improve the quality of our water. Likewise, we’re also in need of improving the quality of our wastewater. How do we do that? Through more efficient and effective wastewater treatment, and by improving the accuracy of monitoring these improved treatment practices, to put it vaguely. Knowing this challenge, we’re sharing specific ways to improve the quality of our water and wastewater.
1. Evaluate Your Technology
Regular evaluation of the software used by your team is essential. The program used to survey and inspect the condition of assets, incident management, and work order creation purposes should fit your plant’s goals and the changing needs of the community. Data stored and input into the software should be updated and consolidated regularly.
2. Perform a Pump Audit
It's a best practice to perform an audit to determine the severity of the water loss and compare it to other systems. Much of a plant's water loss can be attributed to leaking. State-of-the-art asset management technology can help the team assess where/when a pipe will leak and how to prioritize the operators' efforts to repair or replace the pipe(s).
3. Reduce the Use of Chemicals
A major challenge that your plant operators experience is the estimation of chemical dosage, to stay within the plant’s budget limitations while also ensuring our safety. Simply put, it costs water treatment plants money to add chemicals and overdoing the dosage is costly while, on the other hand, not adding enough puts the public’s safety at risk. The best way to walk this fine line of not overspending but also protecting the public is by using software which proactively analyzes water quality patterns and sensor readings to optimize chemical dosage with informed recommendations.
4. Respond Even Faster to Emergencies
As you know, an incident can turn into a crisis far too quickly so it’s important for proper networks to respond even faster to emergency scenarios. A must-have to do this is a program required to help efficiently plan, schedule, and dispatch work orders. Since work orders can be used to address various concerns, such as to conduct all types of inspections for water, wastewater, stormwater and rivers; or to respond to incidents, such as pipe failures or sewer overflows, the proper software solutions are important to implement.
5. Minimize Untreated Wastewater
Not-so-fun fact: Leaking pipes or treatment tanks can allow wastewater to return to the community’s local water supply without being treated or treated well enough. We can help minimize under-treated wastewater by locating leaking pipes and treatment tanks sooner and resolving cracks and leaks more efficiently. A software tool that updates consistently in the cloud, for you and your team, is the key to supporting these efforts.
Improve the quality of water and wastewater for your community
Innovyze has a collection of platforms that, when combined, can support your efforts to improve the quality of water and wastewater for your community. Whether you’re designing, modeling, analyzing, managing, or investing in water and wastewater networks, we have software to help.
About Innovyze
Innovyze, an Autodesk company, is a global leader in building innovative, industry-leading software for the water industry for over 35 years. Innovyze serves thousands of clients including the largest utilities, ENR design firms, consultancies and refining plants around the world.
