Burn the Clipboard? Embracing Digital Water Data Collection

I have been consulting in the water and wastewater IT/OT industrial automation space for about 25 years. Not just as a consultant sitting behind a desk writing reports all day, but I’ve been in hundreds (thousands?) of facilities and have seen a lot of data and the people who steward it in this industry. I had a morning meeting a few years back where a plant superintendent of 20+ years told me the state would never allow him to go without paper, then after lunch…