Exploring Water Opportunities in Tanzania - East Africa: A Working Trip
We're planning a visit to explore opportunities and building professional and business relationships The place: The United Republic of Tanzania is the largest nation in eastern Africa, approximately...
View ArticleJoys of Small Consultancy Ownership
Owning and operating a small business is not always easy in this economy. Especially as we provide services that are not always understood to be essential (but can be) and sometimes thought to be...
View ArticleWellfield Optimization: Metrics-Driven Operations and Maintenance
While water treatment and wastewater treatment plants are precision-engineered and have become increasingly well instrumented and monitored, ground water-supply wells and wellfields are often treated...
View ArticleMarketing Water - Yes You can be a Water Tychoon
Our Ground Water Science clientele is largely highly conservative and risk-averse. They like a sure thing and the worst disaster of all is to invest in an asset such as a well and have it turn out...
View ArticleMonitoring to test water supplies around oil and gas development
Protecting water resources you have: A raw water supply is a crucial resource for any human settlement, and maintenance of a quality and sufficient water supply is one of the most important services in...
View ArticleGround Water and Surface Water Contamination Issues of Oil and Gas...
Ground Water and Surface Water Contamination Issues of Oil and Gas Development in Ohio is an article we prepared for a seminar this year. We provide it as a summary of issues related to water quality,...
View ArticleMilestone: Ground Water Science Web Site at 15
Wow! It's been that long? It just occurred to us that our web site is at least 15 years old. If you are old enough to be an adult that long ago, you may remember that was -- if not the Paleozoic --...
View ArticleKnowledge is essential to keeping wellfields as valued, long-term assets
By Allen E. Comeskey, CPG and Stuart A. Smith, CGWP Management of water systems -- not always getting the job done. The management at communities that operate public water systems frequently delegate...
View ArticleUsing Geology and Well Construction Expertise to Improve Raw Water Quality
Challenging raw water quality (whether ground water or not!) frequently has a geological origin. Understanding the geological origin can help those responsible for the operation of a ground-water...
View ArticleWellfield Asset Management: No "Silver Bullets" but Good Choices Work
The drive to include wellfield systems in overall utility water supply asset management has been a welcome development, logical, long overdue, and can be challenging. The processes of asset management...
View ArticleTraining Internationally
Over the last several years, our Stuart Smith has had new opportunities to provide training in international venues, including: Water Utilities East Africa Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (2012)...
View ArticleBelonging - Being a good professional citizen
By Stuart Smith, Ground Water Science partner My partner Allen Comeskey and I have been National Ground Water Association members for many years now. The NGWA is the U.S.-centered multi-sector...
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