Resource Spotlight

New book

A new book from Do¯ Sustainability, "Business Strategy for Water Challenges," is a concise guide for professionals that offers strategic steps for developing a corporate water stewardship strategy. It will enable water leaders to define business water risks and the opportunities associated with them; explore, through sector-specific profiles, risks associated with regulation, reputation, external response and engagement, and physical incidents; develop a clear plan and process for creating, managing and mainstreaming a corporate water strategy; and identify several initiatives and new risk tools that companies can use to apply best practices in water management.

Do¯ Sustainability
www.dosustainability.com

Social media

Val-Matic has gone social with Google+ and Facebook. Google+ has enabled Val-Matic to post a variety of instructional and informational videos and has become an easy and interactive outlet for the company to reach individuals involved in a variety of industries and companies. Google+ is the ideal site for Val-Matic to provide relevant knowledge and technology to its followers. Likewise, Val-Matic's Facebook page offers various product facts, company updates and organizational changes among other interesting details. The company's posts offer a variety of relevant company information at a summary level, with more in depth information available on its website.

Val-Matic Valve & Manufacturing Corp.
www.valmatic.com

Product brochure

The brochure, "Electrical Solutions for Systems Integrators and Panel Builders," from Thomas & Betts (T&B), outlines the company's product solutions for the manufacturing and maintenance of electrical power control panels in critical systems. It organizes product information in groupings that provide solutions to specific challenges encountered in systems integration and panel building, such as continuous operation, sustainability, safety, project cost reduction, reduction of stock-keeping units, liquid ingress protection, and grounding and bonding. It also indicates which T&B product lines are designed to address each of these issues, as well as T&B services and training.

Thomas & Betts Corporation
www.tnb.com

Mobile app

Barking for Water is a configurable mobile application designed for utilities needing greater transparency on the activity of their workers. It is built on a comprehensive platform, allowing for quick deployment -- as no code is required to adapt to specific business workflows -- and offering a wide range of feature sets for users. Features include workforce scheduling, asset history and GIS map extracts capabilities. As information is sent to the office in real time, Barking for Water allows work managers to gain visibility into technician or subcontractor work, identify problems early on and remove reconciliation issues with subcontractor firms.

Retriever Communications
www.retrievercommunications.com

New website

Pentair has launched a new website under its Biffi brand, part of its Actuation & Controls solutions. Designed to provide a useful resource for plant engineers across a range of sectors, the website helps actuator selection through comprehensive product and services pages and a user-friendly interface. Key features include details relating to the brand's various technical support services, including installation, training and maintenance and repair, as well as information outlining the benefits of using Biffi solutions to help overcome industry-specific challenges. The website also showcases news stories and case studies with up-to-date material on Biffi products and projects.

Pentair plc
www.biffi.it

New whitepaper

In WateReuse's whitepaper, "The Opportunities and Economics of Direct Potable Reuse," direct potable reuse (DPR) is shown to be generally less expensive than the potential alternative sources of new water supply available to communities in places such as California. It finds that DPR compares favorably with other new water supply alternatives in terms of cost, energy requirements, environmental considerations, and reliability.

WateReuse Association
www.watereuse.org

Software suite

Exele Information Systems announced enhancements to its TopView® software suite with the release of TopView 6.18.1 with real-time value and alarm updates for its mobile web app. The update provides access to TopView alarms and monitored data values from mobile devices and web browsers. Support for any platform with a modern browser allows phone, tablet and desktop access to monitored data, alarms and alarm history. With the new release, the TopView Engine can push real-time value and alarm updates to the browser, and audible text-to-speech alarms are also available.

Exele Information Systems
www.exele.com

New app

Sensorex's SAM-1™ Smart Aqua Meter is now globally compatible with Android devices. Already compatible with Apple iPhone and iPad users for laboratory and field monitoring, the SAM-1 measures and records pH, ORP, conductivity, and temperature values. With the release of the Android app, Android smartphone and tablet users (Android version 4.0 and newer) can now use this powerful, portable water quality meter for accurate analytical measurements in a variety of applications.

Sensorex
www.sensorex.com

Annual report

The fifth edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report seeks to inform decision-makers (inside and outside the water and energy domains), stakeholders and practitioners about interlinkages, potential synergies and trade-offs, and to highlight the need for appropriate responses and regulatory frameworks that account for both water and energy priorities. The report provides a comprehensive overview of major and emerging trends from around the world, with examples of how some of the trend-related challenges have been addressed, their implications for policy-makers, and further actions that can be taken.

United Nations World Water Assessment Programme
www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr