Practical analysis on go-to-market strategy, AI adoption, municipal utility sales, and technology commercialization, written by practitioners who have built and sold in this sector.
Utility staff are drafting, summarizing, searching, and creating with generative AI today, often on personal accounts. Here's what a use policy should say and what to pilot first.
Read more →Since GASB 96, a multi-year software subscription can be recorded on a public utility's books as a capital asset. Vendors who structure the contract for it stop competing for operating money.
Read more →Most water utilities build next year's budget five to seven months before it starts. Vendors who show up after that window wait a year. Here's the calendar.
Read more →GAC, ion exchange, and high-pressure membranes all hit four parts per trillion removal limits. What separates them is co-contaminants, footprint, and where the concentrated PFAS ends up.
Read more →Vendors compare notes on engineering firms the way firms compare notes on vendors. The firms that are easy to work with have some commonalities.
Read more →Autodesk, Bentley, Xylem, DHI, Veolia, and the challengers all sell water utility digital twins. A buyer's comparison of platforms, pricing, and proof.
Read more →The engineer who passes on your water technology isn't being cautious for its own sake. The fee model, the liability, and the insurer are all doing their job.
Read more →The water problem with AI data centers is a question of location, not national supply. Why water efficiency is becoming a gating factor on the AI buildout, and an investable one.
Read more →Water-tech funding hit a record in 2024 yet remains a rounding error of cleantech capital. Where disciplined money is concentrating in 2026, and where it is not.
Read more →Every water technology vendor claims they're secure. The questions a utility should ask, the documents to demand, and the red flags that end the deal.
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