Join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a live demonstration of the Water Utility Response On-The-Go mobile app on September 17, 2020 at 1:00 pm EST. The demonstration will be approximately 15 minutes and will include a live Q&A session. This presentation will include a live demonstration of the EPA’s Water Utility Response On-The-Go mobile app – also known as Response OTG. Released in 2015, the app provides information and tools that water utilities can use to prepare for, respond to, and recover from an emergency. It includes tools that allow the user to track severe weather, contact response partners, assess damage, and complete incident action checklists. The app is able to access location data to give the user up-to-date information about local emergencies and enhance coordination on all response levels. It is available for free on the App Store or Google Play Store (instructions to download below). Please download the app to your phone prior to the demonstration so that you can follow along as we go through the app’s features and interface.   Get started by downloading the FREE Response On-The-Go App: 1. Navigate to the App Store or Google Play Store on your mobile device. 2. […]

Drinking water utilities face multiple challenges—including aging infrastructure, water quality concerns, pipe breaks, uncertainty in supply and demand, natural disasters, environmental emergencies and terrorist attacks. All of these have the potential to disrupt service to customers and damage critical infrastructure. Increasing resilience to these types of hazards is essential to improving water security. Simulation and analysis tools can help water utilities predict how their system will respond to expected and unexpected incidents and help inform decisions to make water distribution systems more resilient over time. EPA, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, developed the Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR), an open source Python package, to integrate critical aspects of resilience modeling for water distribution networks into a single software framework. WNTR can help water utilities investigate the resilience of their water systems to a wide range of hazardous scenarios and evaluate emergency response actions and long-term resilience‐enhancing strategies. The software estimates potential damages from disaster scenarios; predicts how damage to infrastructure would occur over time; evaluates preparedness strategies; prioritizes response actions; and identifies worse case scenarios, efficient repair strategies, and best practices for maintenance and operations. This webinar will provide an overview of WNTR along with a few case […]

This webinar will look at how a conventional water treatment plant works.  It will look at AWWA best practices, plant optimization and energy management.  It will also address issues that may arise such as water quality problems, aging treatment plant infrastructure and knowledge transfer. This webinar is 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm on September 8 and September 9. Earn up to 8 contact hours. Instructor: Henry Palechek Member $80 / Non-member $100 Online registration for this webinar closes on September 6.