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Satellite-Based Leak Detection is Changing the Industry
Tuesday, June 14
3:20 PM
Novel Use of Modern Technology to Benefit the Water Industry
James Perry
Executive Vice President
ASTERRA’s Recover product for satellite-based leak detection won the inaugural AWW 2021 Innovation Award application. This presentation will take the audience from conception to implementation, sharing experiences to give insight and inspire an innovative mindset. In addition to the technology, the barriers to innovation and challenges to get an innovation to be used by an industry that is steeped in tradition such as water utilities.
Wednesday, June 15
10:30 AM
Managing Non-Surfacing Leaks – The Key to Real Water Loss Reduction
Bruno Tume
Sales Manager, ASTERRA
Henry County Public Service Authority has had an increasing real water loss over a period of time and identified a program to reduce this trend. They retained the services of ASTERRA to use Utilis satellite leak pre-location technology to identify likely leaking locations (LLL) within their system using the Recover product. Recover has an excellent track record of finding non-surfacing leaks since 2016. Henry County PSA was able to locate 311 leaks pursuant to one service resulting in real water loss going from increasing at 29% per year to decreasing at 12% per year. This was documented through the excellent record keeping that correlated the real water loss recovered due to non-surfacing leaks to reduction in real water loss volume.