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The Association of California Water Agencies has appointed WSO as an Approved Provider for the provision of Water Loss and Leak Detection activities for association members.
Click here for the ACWA website and more details.
Return to top Nashville Metro Water Services has awarded a 5-year Leak Detection Survey Contract to WSO
Return to top WSO Malaysia commenced operations in October 2009. The company is working on four NRW Reduction projects for the Sabah state water department (Jabatan Air Negeri Sabah or JANS) in Kota Kinabalu, Tawau, Lahad Datu and Semporna. Guido Wiesenreiter is heading up the operation and has transferred from PNG to Malaysia on full-time basis. Peter Jinks takes over from Guido in PNG.
Return to top WSO has been awarded a contract by the City of Panama City to carry out a comprehensive water audit.
Return to top WSO commenced the Port Moresby Phase 3 NRW Reduction project on May 1, 2009. The project will implement additional NRW Reduction works including additional NRW zones, trunk main and service reservoir upgrades and system optimisation.
Return to top WSO continues its long standing relationship with Nashville Metro Water Services by once again being selected to carry out the City's water audit contract for 2008.
WSO had to fight off strong competition for the contract but, as Vice-President Paul Johnson noted, "We strongly believe in our ability to deliver the best water audit consultancy service in the country - and at a price that offers unbeatable value for money for our clients".
Return to top WSO has been awarded a contract to provide consultancy services for the City of Phoenix Water Service Department's Water Loss Management Program.
WSO carried out the City's previous water audit in 2004. This resulted in the identification of a significant revenue loss associated with a particular type of customer meter which the City was using. A subsequent program by the City to replace these meters resulted in a revenue increase.
WSO is excited to have been selected by the City of Phoenix to carry out this contract.
Return to top WSO has been awarded a contract to provide Technical Assistance for the Philadelphia Water Department's Long-Term Water and Revenue Loss.
WSO had been providing Technical Assistance to PWD for the past 4 years and the contract had to be re-bid in 2007 to satisfy local contract rules. WSO is excited to have been chosen once again to provide ongoing technical support to PWD on this prestigiuous long term program. The award cements WSO's position as the leading water loss control company in North America.
Return to top WSO will be presenting a paper on the use of the new AWWA water audit methodology for a small rural water supply system at the AWWA Distribution Systems Symposium in Cleveland, Ohio (see www.awwa.org/conferences/dss).
Return to top WSO will be at the TAUD Annual Conference in Gatlinburg, Tennessee from August 22 to August 24. Come and visit us at out our booth and see if you can win a FREE WATER AUDIT. We have lots of other great give-aways to. Don't miss out.
Return to top WSO is now offering a performance-based Revenue Enhancement Service. Click here for full details.
Return to top Tennessee House Bill 743 requiring all Utility Districts to report annual average unaccounted for water percentage came into effect on July 1 (click here to see the document).
The Utility Management Review Board now has authority to investigate utility districts that have excessive unaccounted for water and can require them to take appropriate action to reduce losses to acceptable levels.WSO will lobby for the adoption of the new AWWA water audit methodology and for adoption of ILI as the preferred comparative performance indicator in place of UFW. Contact WSO now for more details on how your utility can prepare itself for the new legislation. Also see our Tennessee newsletter.
Return to top WSO will be exhibiting at the AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition in Toronto, Canda from June 24-27, 2007 (see www.awwa.org/ace07). You can find us at Booth #1153. Come and meet us there and see if you can convince us to give you some of our great freebies!
WSO is also presenting a paper on Completion of a Full-sclae Water Audit in a System with a Low Level of Real Losses: The San Francisco Public Utility experience.
Return to top Reinhard Sturm and Julian Thornton will be presenting a paper on the cost effectiveness of distribution side conservation programs (water loss reduction programs) and conventional demand side conservation programs.
Return to top In keeping with WSO’s policy of continual staff development, two of our newest recruits, Nate Hahm and Calvin Bracy, have just successfully completed the OSHA Confined Spaces Training course. “Safety on the job is our number one priority at WSO,” explained Paul Johnson, VP Operations – East, “and we are glad that Nate and Calvin, like the rest of the WSO filed personnel, have completed their Confined Space Certification so quickly.”
Return to top Reinhard Sturm, Co-principal Investigator on this prestigious AwwaRF research project, was invited by the conference organizers to present the final results of this research project. The Report is due for publication in mid 2007.
Return to top A technical paper on the use of Infrastructure Leakage Index (ILI) by Reinhard Sturm and Steve Preston has been accepted by the IWA Scientific Committee for presentation at the Water Loss 2007 conference being held in Bucharest, Romania from September 17-20, 2007 (see www.waterloss2007.com).
Water Loss 2007 is organised by the Water Loss Task Force (WLTF), one of several Task Forces of the IWA’s Specialist Group on Efficient Operation and Management of Urban Water Systems. The conference is held every two years and is intended to present and discuss the latest developments, strategies, techniques and applications of international best practices in water loss assessment, management, leakage reduction and control and improvement of customer metering. WSO is extremely pleased to have been selected to present a paper at this important international event.
Return to top WSO is supporting Baltimore consultants Rummel, Klepper and Kahl on an 18-month project to carry out a Comprehensive Water System Audit for the City of Baltimore’s Bureau of Water and Wastewater. WSO’s Todd Christman is now on-site in Baltimore to carry out in-site comparative meter tests to validate the accuracy of the City’s many source and export meters at treatment plants and pumping stations.
Return to top WSO will have an exhibit at the AWWA California-Nevada Section Annual Fall Conference in Long Beach, CA from October 2-5, 2006 (see ca-nv-awwa.org/CA-NV). You can find us at Booth #314. Come and meet Reinhard Sturm and get one of our great pens!
Return to top WSO is excited to announce that Reinhard Sturm, previously working for WSO in Miami, has been appointed as Vice-President of Operations – West and is now based in San Francisco, CA. The move will enable WSO to better serve its existing client base in California and surrounding states. WSO is currently working for San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the opening of an office in the city is a logical step for the company. Other projects recently completed in the state include water audits for El Dorado Irrigation District and Los Angeles Power and Water Department, as well as a contract for the California Urban Water Conservation Council to update their Best Management Practice for Water Audits and Leak Detection (BMP3). For more information, contact Reinhard Sturm at 786-877-5752.
Return to top WSO will have an exhibit at the AWWA Distribution Systems Symposium in Phoenix, AZ from September 17-20, 2006 (see www.awwa.org/conferences/dss/). You can find us at Booth #403.
Reinhard Sturm will be presenting an update on the AWWARF Project #2928 – Leakage Management Technologies. Alex Deanda of San Francisco Water Department will be presenting a paper on the recent work that WSO carried out to identify economic change-out frequency of customer meters. Both papers are on Tuesday, September 19 in the Trends and Developments in Water Loss Control session.
Return to top WSO’s Papua New Guinea based subsidiary has successfully completed the implementation phase of the Port Moresby NRW Reduction Project (Phase 2) in Port Moresby, PNG. The project was carried out by Bristol-JCV, a joint venture between WSO and JC-KRTA Consulting Group of Malaysia.
Over a 30 month period from February 2004 to July 2006, the total demand for the city of Port Moresby has been reduced from its peak of around 170 million litres per day (46 million gallons per day) by more than 34 million litres per day (9 million gallons per day). The saving was achieved by carrying out pressure management and leak repair. The project is now in a 12-month maintenance period.
“We are extremely pleased with the level of savings that have been achieved and we are confident of sustaining those savings beyond the implementation period,” stated Guido Wiesenreiter, Director of WSO PNG. “The training of local personnel, including those seconded from Eda Ranu, that took place during the project covered all aspects of ongoing non-revenue water reduction activities and will prove to be a key component in the long-term success of the project.”
For further details contact Guido Wiesenreiter at guido.wiesenreiter@wsopng.com
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