Water Shut-Off Suspensions and the Coronavirus Crisis
Cities and states around the country have announced temporary suspensions of all utility service shutoffs due to non-payment. As of this writing ...
Jeff Lipton
March 16, 2020
Rethinking Water Utility Procurement
Water utilities and municipalities across the United States have a common process for purchasing goods and services. This typically involves...
Jeff Lipton
February 20, 2020
A Multi-Pronged Approach to Water Affordability
Water utilities are providers of life sustaining services that we all rely on. Yet, at least in the United States, water services are taken for...
Jeff Lipton
January 22, 2020
Solving the Uncollectible Water Revenue Conundrum
The idea of post-paid water services is a first world construct. In order to reliably collect payment for water services after the fact, utilities...
Jeff Lipton
January 15, 2020
Digital Transformation for an Aging Water Workforce
The workforce in the water industry is aging. More importantly, fewer young people are entering the industry to take over jobs, creating a pending...
Jeff Lipton
January 09, 2020
Crossing the Digital Water Divide
The water industry has seen gradual growth in the adoption of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and related data analytics solutions over the...
Jeff Lipton
January 02, 2020
Top 5 Water Technology Predictions SET for 2020
With the end of the decade quickly approaching, the team at SET is putting on our magic goggles to prognosticate some likely trends in digital...
Jeff Lipton
December 26, 2019
Reframing Water Utility Project Management
Water suppliers regularly look to develop projects that are dependent on third party vendors. A good example of this is the deployment of Advanced...
Jeff Lipton
November 20, 2019
Smart Water Networks and the Future of AMI
Many water utilities continue to evaluate the costs and benefits of investing in smart metering to reduce operational costs and help recover...
Jeff Lipton
November 07, 2019