Brad Clarke is the VP of Sales and Marketing for Singer Valve Inc., a global designer and manufacturer of automatic control valves. He has spent the last 35 years working in the water industry and has written and presented several papers around the world on key issues that improve the operation, conservation and management of water systems. He can be reached at Brad@singervalve.com.Kari Oksanen, Singer Valve’s General Manager, has over 30 years of extensive knowledge and experience in the automatic control valve industry. His wealth of accomplishments at Singer include designing the original Anti-Cavitation Trim in the 1980s by adapting and improving existing technology, running the factory’s valve testing lab, assisting in pioneering the Pressure Reducing Valve (PR-SM) with integral back-up system when failure is not an option and problem-solving thousands of applications by writing custom algorithms for the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). He can be reached at Kari@singervalve.com.