As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, we understand that more and more utility staff members are working from home or sheltering in place. Now more than ever, we want to ensure you have quick, easy access to online resources that can answer your questions and enhance your understanding of important utility topics.
Featuring both Xylem experts and our utility partners, these webinars and educational resources explore challenges impacting water and wastewater utilities just like yours—and the solutions they used to gain new visibility, ensure continuity, and improve the resilience of their systems. And to help you keep pace with continuing education requirements during this complex time, CEU credits are available upon request.
On-Demand Webinars - General
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Do You Want to Learn More About Preventing Cyber Attacks?Around the world, water utilities are expected to continually protect their critical infrastructure from cybersecurity risks. Join us in learning how Xylem and Dragos are securely digitizing water.
On-Demand Webinars - Water
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New Pump Energy Regulations as of January 2020The U.S. Department of Energy implemented Pump Energy Conservation Standards effective January 27, 2020. Discover which pumps are currently in scope, what these regulations require, how to ensure that the pumps you purchase are in compliance with DOE regulations, and more.
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Basics of Ozone Technology and the Benefits of Ozone Treatment for Drinking Water Treatment PlantsThis presentation will introduce Ozone technology and its uses in drinking water treatment. We will provide background information on ozone and discuss how ozone is produced commercially for use in water treatment plants.
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Risk Resilience in America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA)Starting in March 2020, America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) will require community drinking water systems to develop or update Risk and Resilience Assessments (RRAs) and Emergency Response Plans (ERPs). This webinar will educate attendees on the requirements.
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Utilizing Technology to Save Millions in Data Integration Process EfficienciesEfficiently capturing, accessing, and transmitting data can enable decision making that is faster, smarter, and more cost efficient. Explore how one utility used a real-time work and asset management solution to meet their data gathering and integration needs.
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How a Data-Driven Approach to Pressure and Leak Monitoring Saved One Utility $160,000 a YearThe first step in understanding the condition of your water transmission main is performing a Health Check. Learn how readily available data can be non-intrusively gathered and analyzed to get a better understanding of the pipeline’s overall condition.
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Using Risk Analysis to Lower Annual Replacement Costs and Reduce FailuresHow do you prevent pipes from failing? What is the impact of each failure? See data turn into action as you explore one utility’s 5-year journey using artificial intelligence to avoid failures and costly service disruptions, collect better data, and make more informed decisions.
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Tomorrow’s Water Today: Advanced Solutions for Water Reuse, IPR and DPRClimate change, population growth, competing demands, and contaminants are creating more and more stress on traditional drinking water supplies. Discover advanced treatment solutions being employed today to effectively treat wastewater for non-potable and potable uses.
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Advantages of Biologically Active Filtration SystemsBiologically active filtration in different forms has gained attention for its operational benefits in both water and wastewater systems. See advancements applied in BAF applications to improve performance and reliability.
On-Demand Webinars - Wastewater
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What is Renewable Natural Gas Biogas and How Does Mixing Improve the Process?Renewable sources of energy are more important than ever today. During this webinar, we will discuss how mixing plays a role in the RNG digester process to provide optimal gas & energy production to achieve energy neutrality.
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Introducing Xylem’s Leopold Texler™ Lamella ClarifierIn this presentation we will introduce the Texler system and discuss the results of pilot tests proving performance.
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Master methods to reduce OPEX while improving nutrient removalAs nutrient limits become more stringent and as energy costs increase, wastewater treatment facilities are looking for a way to improve their nutrient removal while being as efficient as possible.
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The Ultimate Contingency Plan: Backup Pumping instead of backup powerLift stations face many risks, including electrical failure, control failure and mechanical failure. Discover the best solutions that don’t just back up the power, but also give 100% redundancy for pumping.
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Smart Wastewater Infrastructure21st century waste water system ops are being asked to overcome a myriad of challenges, with minimal resources and fewer people. Discover how solution providers are embedding intelligence into more of the traditional hardware and networking these intelligent devices into smart systems.
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Design of Self-Cleaning Prefabricated Lift StationsDiscover how the modern design of self-cleaning, prefabricated lift stations can reduce capital and operational expenditures while seeing the technology, design support, and applications where this has demonstrated success.
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Maximizing Performance by Making Your Data Work for YouAging infrastructure, coupled with fewer resources, have limited water utilities' ability to be proactive with their assets. In this presentation you will learn about the tools that exist to generate useful data and the positive results from utilities that implemented these solutions.
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Contingency Planning and “Smart” Design of Lift Stations using Backup PumpsLearn about effective solutions to avoid SSOs at lift stations followed by a discussion of the “Smart, Safe, and Economical” option of designing lifts stations including a backup pump that provides both mechanical and electrical redundancy and “Peace of Mind” for municipal owners.
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Successfully Handling Today's Wastewater to Prevent CloggingThis presentation will provide an overview of numerous wastewater pump impeller designs currently employed in collection systems attempting to handle today’s wastewater.
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How to Use Data and Risk Analysis to Manage High Consequence Force MainsExplore how one utility gathered valuable information on the condition of their force mains using application-specific technologies and multiple data streams to prioritize pipeline assessment, maintenance, and replacement while maximizing existing capital and operating budgets.
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How Grand Rapids, Michigan Utilized Real-Time Decision Intelligence To Eliminate Sewer OverflowsExplore how data-driven decision making helped demonstrate to regulators that perceived infiltration and inflow (I/I) challenges - both operational and environmental - could be solved for substantially less cost than was assumed with traditional engineering solutions.
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Tools for Treatment of Emerging ContaminantsThis presentation will address the history of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and how emerging contaminants impact regulations and treatment objectives. We will also and PFAS and present best practices to optimize the design of a facility.
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Mixing Best Practices - The Latest in Low-Speed Variable Thrust MixingAlthough the overarching goals of mixing in waste water treatment have stayed constant, the best ways to achieve those objectives have not. Fortunately, the options keep getting more reliable, effective and efficient.
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Minimizing Mixing Energy in Activated Sludge Selector BasinsWith the goal to minimize energy consumption in the BNR process, an energy pilot study was done in Milwaukee, WI. The study concludes that the best of 3 mixing systems achieved successful mixing and nutrient removal – see how.
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What is Adaptive Mixing and how will it make your operations more efficient?In this talk we will focus on some of the other ways that Adaptive Mixers can enable plant level improvements in both operational excellence and process results.
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Building Resilience Against Severe Weather Events Requires Robust Planning & Best in Class SolutionsReal-life examples of products, services, and solutions Xylem offers that contribute towards urban resilience with a focus on helping cities manage flood risk.
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Solutions Toward Urban Flood ControlDiscover partnerships developed to integrate, install, and maintain systems for measuring and transmitting information on water levels, precipitation, and discharge rates in real time.
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Urban Resilience Planning - How Ready Are You?Flooding is one of the most universal and destructive challenges facing communities around the world. Building resilience is a large and complex challenge – discover the secret to success.
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Design and Operational Benefits of Horizontal Submersible Solids-handling Dry-pit PumpsThis webinar relates the technical benefits and savings of placing a submersible pump in horizontal dry-pit service.
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Intelligent Pumping - Simplifying Design to Optimize OperationsDuring this session we will walk through solutions that meet pumping modern trash and handling variable load challenges - including those with integrated intelligence.
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Advanced Communication Networks and the Internet of Things in the Water IndustryThis webinar will discuss Automation and Control solutions where more intelligent control, measurement and data acquisition capabilities are now becoming the standard requirements.
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Biological Nutrient Removal: The state of the art way to cleaner effluent with fewer chemicalsThis webinar will review the necessary environments and biological reactions for BNR and present case stories from full-scale operating plants.
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Is it time to rethink your Biosolids Management Strategy?The biosolids management portion of a wastewater treatment plant can cause inefficient operation of the whole treatment plant if not properly designed and operated. Join us to see real best-practices.
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Optimizing Oxidation Ditches to Improve Energy Efficiency and BNR PerformanceThis presentation will open with the history and operation of oxidation ditches, and discuss best practices for optimizing for maximized treatment performance and minimizing overall energy consumption.
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Valuable Data to Strengthen Preventative MaintenanceIn the face of a slowing economy and dwindling revenues, water & wastewater utilities are faced with the two-faceted challenge of having to maintain aging infrastructure without the available capital to make infrastructure upgrades. Learn how to strengthen your preventative maintenance.
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Reduce OPEX spending in your Aeration ProcessUnderloaded plants often face mixing limited conditions, translating to excess dissolved oxygen delivery. Over aerating such as this translates to increased energy usage and eats away at OPEX budgets.
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Strategies for extending system life & making your water utility budget go furtherManaging a municipal budget leads to tough choices regarding “upkeep vs. upgrade” of water and wastewater treatment facilities. Explore ways to strategically reutilize existing infrastructure, extend system life, and adopt a targeted and needs-based approach to asset repair and upgrade.
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5 Ways Smart Technology and Digital Solutions Prevent Sewer OverflowsWith the recent increase in storm activity, research has highlighted the significant dangers faced by communities, infrastructure and ecosystems. This webinar focuses on how large pumping solutions have helped cities strengthen contingency planning, minimize and recover from flood losses.
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Better Mixing - Improve Nutrient Removal and Save Money at Your Wastewater Treatment FacilityStricter nutrient effluent limits are not a passing fad for wastewater treatment plants. If you have not experienced nutrient removal requirements, you will. Biological nutrient removal is a proven method for reaching lower effluent limits.
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Impactful Digital Solutions that can be Applied for Less than your Monthly Phone Bill! The Future’sIn the rapidly changing landscape of digital innovation available to Water Utility owners and operators, one can easily become overwhelmed with the complexity and expense of adding and maintaining these solutions.
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UV or Ozone? Selecting the most effective technology to solve your water treatment challenges.This webinar will review the basics of Ultraviolet (UV) Light and Ozone Technologies as well as present typical installations of UV and Ozone systems and report on the results and secondary benefits realized at each water treatment plant.
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Wastewater Treatment Optimization - Leveraging Data to Drive OutcomesData driven approaches to help drive outcomes continue to evolve with the increasing adoption of technologies within wastewater treatment plant operations.
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Post Covid 19 Collections Systems Trouble Free SolutionsHas COVID-19 changed the composition of the wastewater that we need to pump? Studies indicate that the amount of “items that should not be flushed” entering municipal collection systems, remains at a much higher level than in pre-pandemic times.
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What is S2EBPR (Side Stream Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal) and how can it help my WWTP?Join Xylem as we bring one of the nation’s leaders in S2EBPR to you. Leon Downing will join us as we explain what is S2EBPR, other methods of P removal including their pros and cons, the pros and cons of S2EBPR, and how to maximize the benefits of S2EBPR.
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Collaborating to assess water system cybersecurityMany utilities want to know their end-to-end cybersecurity profile before spending money on expensive contractors, cybersecurity firms, or regulators.
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Xylem Solutions Solve Wastewater Clogging and Reduced Staffing IssuesUtilities are experiencing increased clogging within their wastewater collection systems. This webinar will discuss available remote monitoring and control solutions that are greatly needed due to the reduced staffing and social distancing being implemented across the country.
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Energizing your wastewater disinfection process with the next Generation Duron 8 UV system!In this webinar we will discuss the features and benefits of Xylem’s latest UV disinfection product. Xylem’s Duron 8 product has been developed to address the challenges of today’s UV disinfection market.
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Municipal Collection Systems - Modern Trouble-free Pumping Strategies and TechnologiesJoin us for a comprehensive seminar that will provide attendees with current strategies and available technologies to deliver solutions that minimize eliminating municipal wastewater pump station fouling and solids-handling pump clogging issues.
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What is Advanced Oxidation and how can it benefit your treatment process?Join us as we discuss how Xylem can help you and your clients Solve your water challenges! Let’s Solve Water Together!
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What is Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and how can it help my facility run better?Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is proven method to predict mixing quality in a fluid.
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What is ozone BAF and how can it benefit my treatment system?Join us for this educational webinar to learn how an integrated control platform of ozone-enhanced biologically active filtration (BAF) from a single interface can provide a significant water quality improvement specially designed for the given effluent requirements.
