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The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) launched a One Billion Gallon Water Challenge in 2014 to promote water conservation measures by businesses, industries, communities, and the general public in Illinois. ISTC has partnered with American Water and Echologics to validate the efficacy of an advanced leak detection technology based on acoustic monitoring within the Metropolitan Chicago area.  As of January 2015, the program has avoided ...

Mueller Co., a supplier of potable water distribution products, has introduced a new remote pressure monitoring system for water distribution networks as part of its Intelligent Water Technology™ (IWT) portfolio of products and services that actively diagnoses, monitors and controls the delivery of safe, clean drinking water to consumers and businesses. The pressure sensor, typically installed one per district metering ...

Municipal Sewer & Water recently featured Mueller Co.’s new remote pressure monitoring system. The remote pressure monitoring system, part of the Intelligent Water Technology portfolio of products from Mueller Co., reports pressure data at customer-defined intervals via a machine-to-machine cellular-based service or a Mueller advanced metering infrastructure network. The GIS map interface can be viewed with any Web browser. Made ...

From CNN Money:  Anvil International LLC, one of the largest and most complete manufacturers of pipe fittings, pipe hangers and piping support systems, has opened a distribution center in Orlando, Florida.  Click here to read the complete story.

Mueller Company’s long history of innovation was featured recently in the AWWA Journal.  The article spans 130 years of innovation from Mueller’s 1882 patent for a water pressure regulator to our latest remote pressure moniotring system.

Andrew Farr, associate editor of UIM provides a Water Technology Recap from AWWA’s ACE ’14 conference in Boston. It includes a summary of Echologic’s leak detection solutions. Walking through the exhibit halls at industry trade shows such as the AWWA’s Annual Conference & Exposition (ACE), it doesn’t take long to realize the municipal water utility industry is up to speed on ...

Echologics Technology Deemed “Top Find” at ACE14 Water Online has identified EchoShore, Echologics’ Advanced Continuous Transmission Main Monitoring System as one of the “top finds” of the American Water Works Association’s annual conference, ACE14.  Click here to read more.  

(Published Friday, May 16, 2014. Independent Tribune) Kannapolis is getting smarter about water meters, installing a system public works staff say will reduce waste and give consumers more information about their water usage. The City of Kannapolis is in the process of installing a $6 million system of about 17,000 “smart” meters, a hardware support system to transmit data throughout ...

Baltimore City Department of Public Works Selects Echologics ePulse Technology   DPW Using High-Tech Acoustics To Assess Water Mains May 6, 2014 (BALTIMORE, MD) —    Baltimore City Department of Public Works Director Rudolph S. Chow, P.E., today announced that DPW will begin a water main testing project that will start May 12 and run through mid-July. This work will assess the condition of our ferrous (iron) water ...

  Congress passed the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act in 2011 (the “Act”), with an effective date of January 1, 2014. In October of this year, the EPA published a guidance document providing answers to questions pertaining to implementation of the Act.  Unexpectedly, EPA determined that hydrants must meet the reduced lead standards of the Act because “fire ...