The water meter is the cash register for a water utility. For those how have worked win the water business for any amount of time, they've likely heard that adage. But how does a water system choose the right meter for the utility? Should utilities pick the cheap option because they cash-strapped? What is the difference if they are willing to pay for higher quality?

In this sponsored interview with Kamstrup, Jake Piccioni, solution manager for Kamstrup, talks about the company’s “culture of quality” to ensure their customers have the very best meters in their systems. Learn how high quality meters can lead to long-term savings with total cost of ownership, and that’s even before considering the benefits that newer modern meters offer utilities in terms of accuracy, pressure and other measured parameters.

• Learn more about Kamstrup: https://www.kamstrup.com/en-us/water-solutions

• 00:00 – Introduction to episode and guest
• 01:10 – What challenges do utilities face when lower quality meters are used? How can that increase the total cost of ownership?
• 03:29 – What about the Kamstrup designs sets these meters apart?
• 06:24 – What about the materials? What are your meters made of?
• 08:00 – Given this scrutiny Kamstrup places on the design and materials, how then does that cultural of quality translate to manufacturing of the meters? What rigors do these meters go through for QA and QC?
• 10:54 – What are the dangers of having poor or inaccurate data for a utility? What can utilities realize when they have good data?
• 14:16 – Outro

Talking Under Water is the premier podcast for the water industry, including municipal water and wastewater, residential water treatment, storm water management and erosion control. It is produced in coordination between Wastewater Digest (WWD), WaterWorld and Storm Water Solutions (SWS). The podcast covers topics under the One Water movement including the municipal and industrial water and wastewater, residential, storm water and erosion control markets. Talking Under Water highlights news, trends, new technologies, industry discussions and interviews with experts across the municipal water industry. New episodes of the podcast are released every other week. Logo Images: Anatoly Tiplyashin / Romolo Tavani / stock.adobe.com.

In this episode of Talking Under Water, co-host Katie Johns spoke with Dr. Jeremy Hoffman, director of Impact Evaluation and Community Science at Groundwork USA, about water's role in climate resilience. Dr. Hoffman spoke about his research with Groundwork USA, including heat and flood data; touches on the importance of community engagement and shares what challengees the industry is facing when it comes to resiliency.

• Cooling urban heat islands with smart stormwater systems
• Resilience isn’t one-size-fits-all: Rethinking resilience for locally impactful solutions
• New report finds water infrastructure investment could add $3.9 trillion to U.S. GDP
• Transforming wastewater into renewable natural gas and advancing the circular water economy
• Groundwork USA

• Intro | 00:08
• Hoffman's climate science background | 01:06
• Overview of Groundwork USA and its mission | 04:09
• NOAA’s Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaigns | 05:06
• Water’s central role in climate resilience | 08:47
• Challenges of addressing climate change |16:42
• How environmental conditions drive disparities in life expectancy across neighborhoods | 19:03
• Defining climate resilience | 21:01
• Closing thoughts | 23:55
• Housekeeping | 25:26

• WWD Q3 Trump Performance Poll
• WaterWorld Subscription
• StormCon Call for Abstracts

Talking Under Water, a production of Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B, is the premier podcast for the water industry, including municipal water and wastewater, residential water treatment, storm water management and erosion control. It is produced in coordination between Wastewater Digest(WWD), WaterWorld and Stormwater Solutions (SWS). The podcast covers topics under the One Water movement including the municipal and industrial water and wastewater, residential, stormwater and erosion control markets. Talking Under Water highlights news, trends, new technologies, industry discussions and interviews with experts across the municipal water industry. New episodes of the podcast are released every other week. Logo Images: Anatoly Tiplyashin / Romolo Tavani / stock.adobe.com.  

Contact the Talking Under Water podcast editors by emailing talkingunderwater@endeavorb2b.com engaging with them on X @TUWpodcast. Join the conversation by commenting or using the hashtag #talkingunderwaterpod on social media. 

In this episode of Talking Under Water, the hosts break down recent news happening in the water industry. First, they covers the impacts of Hurricane Melissa, which made historic landfall in Jamaica on October 28 as a Category 5 hurricane before moving through Cuba and the Bahamas, leaving widespread damage and power outages across the Caribbean. Then, they dive into the Trump administration’s decision to pause more than $11 billion in funding for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects amid the ongoing federal government shutdown. Finally, they details the blockbuster $63 billion all-stock merger between American Water and Essential Utilities—set to create one of the largest regulated water and wastewater providers in the U.S.

• What to know about Hurricane Melissa
• Trump administration pauses $11B in Army Corps water projects amid budget standoff
• Army Corps of Engineers Pausing $11B in Projects, White House Official Says
• How the government shutdown affects water and wastewater utilities
• NJ Governor proposes revisions to data center reporting bill to include water use study
• American Water and Essential Utilities announce merger to form $40B water and wastewater utility

• Cold open and intro | 0:00
• Episode summary | 01:17
• Hurricane Melissa impacts across the Caribbean | 01:33
• Transition to next story |03:39
• Pause in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project funding | 03:50
• New Jersey governor revises data center reporting bill | 07:07
• American Water and Essential Utilities announce $63B merger | 08:01
• Housekeeping and announcements | 11:04

• WEFTEC coverage
• WaterWorld subscriptions
• StormCon call for papers

Talking Under Water is the premier podcast for the water industry, including municipal water and wastewater, residential water treatment, storm water management and erosion control. It is produced in coordination between Wastewater Digest (WWD), WaterWorld and Storm Water Solutions (SWS). The podcast covers topics under the One Water movement including the municipal and industrial water and wastewater, residential, stormwater and erosion control markets. Talking Under Water highlights news, trends, new technologies, industry discussions and interviews with experts across the municipal water industry. New episodes of the podcast are released every other week. Logo Images: Anatoly Tiplyashin / Romolo Tavani / stock.adobe.com.  

Contact the Talking Under Water podcast editors by emailing talkingunderwater@endeavorb2b.com engaging with them on X @TUWpodcast. Join the conversation by commenting or using the hashtag #talkingunderwaterpod on social media. 

Editor's note: The episode summary and timestamps were written with the assistance of AI.