As part of our Women in Water series, started on International Women's Day, we are interviewing women across the world who are dedicated to the protection of the water and the environment, and the use of technology to do so. This week, we met with Kirsten Adams, an AQUARIUS user at the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) in Australia, and Lynn Landry, a WaterTrax user at Metro Vancouver, Canada.

First up was Kirsten Adams, a senior hydrologist at DPIPWE, who is responsible for determining sustainable limits for water allocations, reviewing major dam developments in terms of water availability, managing the AQUARIUS portal, and conducting hydrological analysis for... Read More »

As part of our Women in Water series, started on International Women's Day, we are interviewing women across the world who are dedicated to the protection of the water and the environment, and the use of technology to do so. This week, we met with Donna Hollis, an AQUARIUS user from TasWater, and Alice Ohrtmann, a Linko user from Rock River Water Reclamation District.

First up was Donna Hollis, a Data Scientist at TasWater, in Tasmania, Australia. Donna has a wide variety of responsibilities at TasWater, including administration of the AQUARIUS system, data integration, and reporting.

Donna has always had an interest in science and technology, and after obtaining her Bachelor of Science in... Read More »

Going Mobile with WaterTrax!

In an article entitled "Going Mobile with Field Data Collection", WaterTrax Mobile is featured as an emerging technology that is taking the water industry by storm. Advancements in technology-driven data collection and automated data verification are allowing many utilities to save time and effort when using a mobile data collection tool to collect results in the field. Going mobile with field data collection not only reduces duplication of data entry and review efforts, it also saves utilities a lot of money.

Time Savings

Our clients who have adopted WaterTrax mobile have reported that they were spending upwards of two hours extra per week to double... Read More »

WaterTrax and Linko will be exhibiting at WEFTEC in booth 8524. Stop by and register to win a Tablet!

Be sure to visit WaterTrax and Linko at WEFTEC 2016 in New Orleans, September 24-28, where we will be demonstrating exciting data management and compliance innovations for the wastewater industry, as well as solutions experts on hand to answer any questions you may have. We will also be having a draw for a new tablet for all those who come by the booth.

Each day we will be hosting live demo sessions of our newest products at our booth! Please review the schedule below.

Live demo schedule:
1:00 Linko introduces their new POM Portal for FOG Programs

2:00 eDMR tools at the click of a... Read More »

With increasing demands for stringent testing and compliance within our industry, mobile field data entry is essential!

Many of our clients know that field data collection is a time and resource consuming tasks.  They often find themselves out in the field with a clipboard and pen in all types of weather, reading instruments or collecting samples.  Often times, they then have to return to the office to manually type the results into either a spreadsheet or the WaterTrax database. This could potentially lead to data entry errors due to typos or misreading of handwritten results.  If you are like most people, sometimes the second entry back in the office is delayed because of many other... Read More »

WaterTrax chosen as winner of technology category for the Water Canada Awards presented last night at the Water Summit for strong electronic reporting tools

Vancouver, BC,  June 26, 2015 - WaterTrax is pleased to announce that they have been selected as the winner of the prestigious 2015 Water’s Next award for excellence in water resource technology. The Water’s Next national awards program, run by Water Canada magazine, honours the achievements and ideas of individuals and companies that successfully work to change water in our country. Water’s Next is an award program run by Water Canada magazine, which spotlights stories about our country’s... Read More »

Water's Next 2015 Finalists announced last week

WaterTrax is honoured to have been shortlisted for the Water's Next 2015 Award as an emerging technology in Water Resources, specifically for the new report tool for reporting data to the British Columbia Ministry of Environment.  Championed by the City of Kelowna, WaterTrax built this tool to help utilities in BC to generate a report template for easy upload to the Ministry's database.

Working with the City of Kelowna and the Ministry of Environment (MOE), WaterTrax developed an electronic reporting tool that leverages the internet to reduce the amount of time that utilities spend generating their EMS reports.... Read More »