PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
IL15
Deploying the Usage of Drones
11:30 a.m.–Noon
Exhibit Hall—Booth #1420
Presenters will showcase their Digital, Augmented, and/or Virtual
Reality solutions, created to address sector challenges, reduce
costs, engage new audiences, and drive innovation.
Panelists:
Scott Aldridge, CDM Smith
David Forrester, Utility Service Co., Inc.
Vikram Takru, KloudGin
IL16
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse: Past, Present
and Future
Noon–12:30 p.m.
Exhibit Hall—Booth #1420
Presenter: Eunhee Kang
Sewage is no longer just a dirty, smelly subject and source of
pollution. As a major water resource for the future, it is essential
to develop innovative technologies for wastewater reuse. The
value of reuse is evident from its potential impact on public
health, economic development and job growth, and sustainability.
Korea is home to a resident-friendly wastewater treatment and
reuse center called the ASAN wastewater and reuse center
(AWRC), operated by K-water since 2016. The AWRC combines
the wastewater treatment reuse processes together and is one
of the most modern treatment facilities in the country, using
creative design solutions to provide its 33,000 m3 of treatment
capacity and providing water for industrial reuse, including LCD
and OLED applications. The AWRC strives to develop the best
reuse facility in Korea through technology development and
operational innovation.
IL17
Lake Erie Harmful Algal Blooms Early Warning System
1:00–1:30 p.m.
Exhibit Hall—Booth #1420
Moderator: Bryan Stubbs
Human exposure to microcystins has been of growing concern,
especially for those who draw water from the western basin of
Lake Erie. A public-private partnership comprised of Great Lakes
Observing System (GLOS), Great Lakes Environmental Research
Laboratory (GLERL), Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA), Ohio
Seat Grant and Limnotech through a three-year NOAA Ocean
Technology Transfer grant is implementing and commercializing
an integrated monitoring solution to this challenge. The team
is working to integrate the prototype for real-time observing
network for HABs currently operated by GLOS with new detection
technologies for algal toxins and engage demonstrated operators
to commit to long term use of this product. The panel will include
key organizations and utility operators engaged with the annual
monitoring, reporting, and dissemination of HABs data as well
as representatives from the user groups affected by HABs,
especially drinking water treatment plant operators.
Panelists:
Todd Danielson, Avon Lake Regional Water
Scott Moegling, Cleveland Water
IL18
How Metering and Utilities Can Benefit from Low-
Power, Wide-area Networking
12:30–1:00 p.m.
Exhibit Hall—Booth #1420
Utilities are at the forefront of deploying IoT technology as
they move toward digital transformation. Smart meters are
a foundational piece of tomorrow’s smart grid, enabling new
operational efficiencies, new service opportunities and new
revenue streams. Smart electricity meters represent the first
wave of technology driving the utility market’s transformation;
the second wave—deployment of smart water and gas meters—is
just beginning. Low-power, wide area networking (LPWAN)
technologies, like LoRaWAN ™ , deliver a dynamic, adaptive and
interconnected utility distribution network that facilitates new
use cases and benefits, like meter-to-cash services, remote
valve control, eliminate electricity theft and water losses, outage
management, integration of renewable or distributed energy
resource systems and storage and demand response programs.
Via a series of use cases, we will share real-world metering and
utilities deployments and discuss LoRaWAN’s potential ROI.
IL19
Unleashing Innovation for 21st Century Water
Resiliency
1:30–2:00 p.m.
Exhibit HallBooth #1420
Moderator: Richard Seline
This session will describe the evolving demand-signals for an
inclusive approach to water and weather-related resiliency –
“pre-disaster risk mitigated innovative technologies, integrated
solutions, and alternative investment resources” – as a critical
driver for utilities, elected and appointed officials, the broader
communities and innovation eco-systems. Through an initial
5 minute landscape setting (Seline) and two ten-minute
presentations on key water resiliency topics, this session will
spark attendees towards engaging with immediate and near-
term opportunities for their technologies, utilities, networks, and
communities.
WED21
New AWWA Standards and How to Use Them
1:30–4:30 p.m.
Room: Mile High Ballroom 4C
Track: Water Utility Management and Leadership
Moderator: Sally Mills-Wright
AWWA Standards Committees have been working for nearly 100
years providing the water industry consensus standards. Learn
about the newest AWWA standards to address industry needs
and recognize new technologies. This session will highlight 5
important first edition standards, explaining how to use them,
the value of each standard, and the need they have addressed.
An overview of how to use all AWWA Standards from a legal and
technical perspective will kick off the session.
1:30
AWWA Standards: How they are Developed and How
they Should be Used from a Technical and Legal Perspective
Mark Coleman, Wade Trim
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