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2026-10-12

Emerging Contaminants: How Water Utilities Can Prepare Without Chasing Every New Threat

Emerging contaminants are increasing the complexity of water-quality planning, but utilities should avoid reacting to every new concern with immediate capital investment. A stronger approach begins with source characterization, targeted monitoring, treatment-performance understanding and disciplined risk communication before determining whether new infrastructure is required.

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2026-10-05

AI Data Centers Are Becoming a Water-Planning Issue

The rapid expansion of AI and data-center infrastructure is creating a new water-planning challenge for utilities and cities. Large facilities can introduce concentrated demand that affects network capacity, drought resilience and long-term supply planning, making early coordination, fit-for-purpose water sources and site-specific infrastructure analysis increasingly important.

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2026-09-28

Designing Water Infrastructure for Drought, Flood and Climate Volatility

Climate-resilient water infrastructure must perform under increasingly variable conditions, from prolonged drought to intense rainfall and flooding. Resilience depends not only on stronger assets, but also on redundancy, monitoring, operational flexibility, protected dependencies and risk-based investment planning.

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2026-09-21

Desalination in Latin America: When Does It Actually Make Sense?

Desalination can strengthen water security in highly stressed regions, but it is not automatically the best solution. Its feasibility depends on the full infrastructure system—including intake, treatment, energy, concentrate management, conveyance, environmental conditions and comparison with alternatives such as reuse, loss reduction and demand management.

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2026-09-14

Water Reuse: From Wastewater Liability to Strategic Water Supply

Water reuse can transform treated wastewater from a disposal challenge into a strategic supply source. Successful projects connect treatment requirements with real demand, conveyance, storage, regulation, monitoring and long-term economics so reclaimed water becomes a reliable part of the overall water portfolio.

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2026-09-07

Water Utility Cybersecurity: Why PLC and OT Protection Is Now an Operational Priority

As water utilities become more connected, cybersecurity becomes part of operational reliability. Protecting PLCs, SCADA systems and other OT assets requires clear inventories, controlled connectivity, IT/OT segmentation, secure remote access and incident-response planning designed around the physical processes the utility must keep running.

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2026-09-01

AI and Digital Twins for Water Utilities: Start With Data Readiness, Not the Model

AI and digital twins can improve water-utility operations, but only when they are built on reliable asset, GIS, sensor and maintenance data. The strongest digital-water strategies begin with data readiness, consistent system relationships and clearly defined operational decisions—not with the technology itself.

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2026-08-28

Non-Revenue Water: The Fastest New Source of Supply May Already Be in the Network

Water utilities facing scarcity do not always need to begin with a new water source. Reducing non-revenue water through better water balances, leak detection, pressure management, metering and network monitoring can recover valuable capacity that is already being produced but currently lost or unaccounted for.

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2026-08-23

From Water Strategy to Bankable Project: Why Good Plans Often Fail at Implementation

Funding is only useful when projects are sufficiently defined to receive it. Water organizations can improve implementation by converting broad strategies into prioritized, technically credible and financially structured investment portfolios.

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