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Foreman Douglas Brooks (right) and operator Torin Martin connect a new Badger smart meter on a residential water service.
Everything seems to be flowing together in Columbia, South Carolina, where two rivers merge into a third and a transition to a smarter water metering system is moving forward with equal persistence.
“This is the direction the city is moving,” says Frank Eskridge, deputy...