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WaterWebster staff report
June 10, 2008
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More than 500 exhibitors and 10,000 visitors gathered at Atlanta’s Georgia World Conference Center this week to discuss all things water. It was the American Water Works Association’s 2008 conference and the exhibits included aisles and aisles of water-related equipment, like water tanks, purification systems, pipe distribution systems and, of course, leak detectors. At the entrance to the booth run by Cartegraph, an Iowa firm that makes communications software systems to track water mains and other equipment, booth visitors were greeted by, what else? A drop of water from the ceiling. “We have acres and acres of roof space,” said Ashley Boatman, spokesperson for the World Conference Center, “and sometimes with all of this space it’s difficult to know where the leaks are until it rains.” Thunder storms Monday night apparently caused the drip outside the Cartegraph exhibit but Boatman said conference center workers would “be right on it.” It wasn’t a big drip said Shane Gardner, Cartegraph’s strategic territory manager, “just once every so often.” And just often enough to catch the attention of surprised visitors.
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