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Fasten Your Seat Belts: Main Breaks and the Issuance of Precautionary Boil‐water Notices
Author(s) -
Baird Gregory M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2011.tb11413.x
Subject(s) - operability , business , risk analysis (engineering) , order (exchange) , duty , revenue , control (management) , operations management , finance , computer science , economics , engineering , reliability engineering , philosophy , theology , artificial intelligence
Utilities are facing many challenges while trying to juggle multiple priorities, from regulatory changes to public opinions. Making long‐term plans and adequately communicating those plans is crucial to a utility's successful management. As utilities face revenue and budget restrictions, they may be forced to choose a run‐to‐failure scenario. However, although there are many reasons for pipe failure that may be out of a utility's immediate control, the level of operability of the valves is controllable. Utilities must accurately locate and assess the condition of their valves in order to reduce the overall costs for a run‐to‐failure approach. As water stewards, informing the public of health hazards is also an important duty.