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Case Study: Closing the Gates - Monitoring and Ingenuity Help Louisiana Communities Battle Storms
The federal government saw the need for a flood control system through Terrebonne (Louisiana) and neighboring parishes, and in 1992, began a study to map out a...
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App Note: CTD Monitoring Technology Helps Reveal Arctic Secrets
A group of Arctic researchers has employed the latest monitoring technology to investigate the effects of climate change, by measuring temperature and salinity...
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Exploring Eelgrass - Shallow Water Beds Capture CO2
Waving gently in the shallows of California's Humboldt Bay, meadows of eelgrass glow green in the tides. The long, fluttering leaves of the eelgrass do more...
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Case Study: Watching Waves - Busy Singapore Port Adds Sensor Technology to Ensure Safe Berthing
With the large volume of cargo vessels relying on the country’s ports, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has the challenging task of managing...
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Case Study: Determining Total Volume of Sludge in Wastewater Ponding Lagoons
Surveys were performed of three Wastewater Ponding Lagoons and a TWM storage lagoon at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to determine the...
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App Note: ADV Sediment Flow Research by Louisiana State
Subsiding and choked off from the Mississippi River, southeastern Louisiana’s coastal marshlands have steadily sunk and become more saline. According to U.S....
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Case Study: Remote Bathmetric Survey in Kalgoorlie Mine Pits, Australia
Previously, volume surveys of impounded waters in pit lakes had been undertaken using Total Station positioning and soundings taken froma boat on the lake....
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Paper: Discharge and Bathymetric Data Collection of Sinar Mas Forestry Plantation Canals in Indonesia
Water management in the Sinar Mas Forestry plantations presents an immense amount of challenges. With over 2.6 million hectares of concession areas to manage,...
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App Note: Clever Kayak Rig Navigates Tricky Bathmetry Challenge
It was a small lake, but a big challenge. Covering about 43 acres (17 ha), the lake is at the center of the Lake Forest subdivision in Daphne, Alabama and is...
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Speed of Sound in Water Corrections for a Multibeam Bathymetric Survey Conducted With a Castaway-CTD in a Malaysian Reservoir
The Linggiu Reservoir in Johor State, Malaysia, plays a critical role in regulating and releasing waters to the Johor River in order to “push” back a salt...
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Clearer Views - Flow Data Will Help Springs Recovery
Silver Springs—a network of two dozen or more springs in central Florida—bubble up through central Florida’s Karst formations, limestone beds that have been...
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Inuit Hunters Use Castaway-CTD to Gather Data Under Hudson Bay Ice
The hunters recognized the changes. A shot seal would usually float, buoyed by its blubber atop the dense saltwater of Canada’s Hudson Bay. Now the seals were...
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App Note: Flowtracker Helps Nepal River Expedition
The Bagmati is both a sacred river and a city sewer, running through Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu before heading into the mountains and over the Indian...
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App Note: Monitoring Coral Reefs in the Caribbean
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) awarded YSI Integrated Systems and Services (a division of Xylem Inc.) a contract for five marine...
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App Note: South San Joaquin Irrigation District Takes the Lead in 21st Century Flow Monitoring
These are not easy times to run an irrigation district in California. Honing its efficiency, protecting its workers, working to comply with new water...
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App Note: Argonaut-XR Customer Stories
In February 2006 field tests began on the SonTek® Modbus Interface Module (MIM.) These tests were conducted by the Central Arizona Irrigation District (CAIDD)...
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Key Considerations for Power Line Carrier (PLC) Migration
Transitioning from PLC to Next-Gen AMI Early adopters of Power Line Carrier (PLC) networks had one primary objective when originally launching their...
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Seal Rock Conserves Water and Advances Customer Service with Sensus
Oregon water district moves to AMI for better accuracy and response time Stretching 12 miles alongside Oregon’s scenic Pacific Coast Highway is the small...
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City of Fairmont Improves Performance and Service with the Sensus AMI Solution
West Virginia utility reduces excess water usage by 25 million gallons per year Nestled in the rolling hills of northern West Virginia, collegiate life reigns...
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Xylem’s Jabsco Brand Partners with Swiss Fresh Water on Innovative Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Solution
Customer Challenge While universal access to safe drinking water is a fundamental need and basic human right, it is estimated that 2.2 billon people globally...
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Global Omnium: Transforming from Conventional to Smart Water
Lessons learned from building one of the largest smart meter networks in Europe. Global Omnium, one of Spain's largest water utilities, has gone through a...
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Xylem’s Flojet Technology Supports Advanced Solution to Replenish First Foods in the Western U.S.
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) is a sovereign governmental nation made up of three Native American tribes – Cayuse,...
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The first Hydrovar X installation in the UK – PressBoost LtD
Challenge A prominent commercial building faced an unexpected and disruptive crisis when the facility's fixed-speed cold water booster set, responsible for...
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Scheduled Remote Disconnect AMI Meters
A More Targeted and Precise Approach to Load Management During Load Crises Upgrading their advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) with remote...
