Waterly Insights: Water Data Management

My Spreadsheets Are Good Enough (But Are They Really?)
How many of us have lost countless hours meticulously crafting a spreadsheet to manage just one process? I cringe at the memory of endless Google searches and Help articles, desperately seeking the perfect formula, calculation, or formatting trick. When our masterpiece was finally complete, it was like admiring a sculpture by Michelangelo. We shared our creation with the operators, emphasizing how much time we spent on it and hoping they’d recognize their value. Yet, despite our best efforts, spreadsheets, like Excel or Google Sheets, have two glaring limitations…

Burn the Clipboard? Embracing Digital Water Data Collection
I have been consulting in the water and wastewater IT/OT industrial automation space for about 25 years. Not just as a consultant sitting behind a desk writing reports all day, but I’ve been in hundreds (thousands?) of facilities and have seen a lot of data and the people who steward it in this industry. I had a morning meeting a few years back where a plant superintendent of 20+ years told me the state would never allow him to go without paper, then after lunch…