Water Systems Technology

SCADA–Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition–has been the workhorse of large factories.  When SCADA is applied to Rural Water Systems, the limits of Old SCADA show.  The need for [...]

From the time that SCADA systems became popular in the 1960s, the fundamental architecture has remained largely the same. Similar to the evolution of the automobile – from Henry Ford’s [...]

                 –Including how a pot grower got nabbed stealing water! As I started writing this story, the embers were still hot.  More than 8,000 homes or buildings had been burned.  [...]

A historian is an electronic record of data logged over time.  For Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, it typically describes the database that contains most or all values [...]

Large water systems employ Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) to monitor and control the flow of water through the system. Because SCADA is so expensive and complex to install, [...]

This seemingly simple question leads to a discussion that concludes, “Because it is a surprisingly complex problem with some devilish details” Electrical Time-of-Use Electricity is generally in [...]

California is in its fourth year of drought. As a water operator, you know that, and you have your coping strategy. Today, we’d like to share some of the strategies that our customers are using [...]