American Water Launches Innovative Partnership with Corona Environmental Consulting to Provide Real-Time Monitoring of Water ...
January 06 2016 - 10:22AM
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American Water (NYSE: AWK), the nation’s largest publicly traded
water and wastewater utility company, announced today that it has
formed a partnership with Corona Environmental Consulting to
develop a cloud-based geographic information system software
platform known as WaterSuite™. This partnership is a result of
American Water's Innovation Development Process, which drives
innovation and supports the development of new products.
West Virginia American Water partnered with Corona to pioneer
the development of the WaterSuite tool. By integrating real-time
data from various sources, WaterSuite creates a context for
effective and efficient management of water resources and enables
prompt data-driven decision making. Its array of features allows
utilities to visualize potential sources of contamination within a
watershed, import and share water quality measurements and
emergency monitoring plans, track water quality and movement of
chemicals in the event of an unplanned release, and search for
possible contaminants by characteristic, all within a platform that
is highly secure, interactive, and easily customized.
“In contrast to paper source water assessment reports,
WaterSuite is a 'living' source water assessment and a key tool for
use in source water protection and event response," said Paul
Gagliardo, Manager, Innovation Development. “As a leader in
researching and deploying water industry innovations, American
Water is committed to using technologies that help us increase our
efficiencies and the value of the water services we provide to our
customers.”
“We’re very excited to be working closely with American Water to
ensure that the tools we are creating meet the needs of the water
industry to better understand and manage water resources,” said
Corona CEO Jeffrey Rosen. “In each service area across the
company’s footprint where WaterSuite is being integrated, American
Water personnel will collaborate with Corona to establish
requirements and test the system and its functionality for the best
possible solution and outcomes.”
The software is also being expanded to capture, integrate and
analyze water quality data to identify conditions that may need
further investigation. Such tools will allow for the development of
more accurate early warning systems to identify potential declines
in source water quality.
Corona is the sixth company to become a Certified Innovation
Partner of American Water through its Innovation Development
Process. Formed in 2009, American Water's Innovation Development
Process is an initiative that leverages the company's position and
expertise as the nation's largest water and wastewater services
provider to develop innovations by performing idea validation tests
using the company's large and geographically diverse footprint,
ultimately becoming an early adopter of new technologies for
industry use. It combines American Water's research and development
acumen, technical expertise and infrastructure assets with internal
innovations and those of its partners in order to create greater
efficiencies in the areas of water reuse, desalination, wastewater
operations, and bio-energy.
About Corona Environmental Consulting
Corona is a nationally recognized leader in addressing high
profile issues confronting the water community today. Corona brings
together multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers,
statisticians, and IT professionals to solve challenges that water
utilities face treating, monitoring, and delivering high quality,
safe drinking water. Corona leverages expertise in software design
and development, water system management, the sciences, and
engineering to deliver solutions that enable utilities to manage
their water systems more effectively. In collaboration with its
partners and clients, Corona has widened its interests to include
source water analysis and premise plumbing. Working within these
new domains, Corona addresses water quality problems that are
traditionally considered outside the jurisdiction of drinking water
providers, yet are important determinants of the quality and safety
of water provided to drinking water customers. For more
information, please visit www.coronaenv.com.
About American Water
Founded in 1886, American Water is the largest publicly traded
U.S. water and wastewater utility company. With headquarters in
Voorhees, N.J., the company employs approximately 6,800 dedicated
professionals who provide drinking water, wastewater and other
related services to an estimated 15 million people in 47 states and
Ontario, Canada. More information can be found at
www.amwater.com.
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