The Smart Grid For Water: How Data Will Save Our Water And Your Utility

by Trevor Hill, Graham Symmonds

Overview

Smarter Water

? Increase Revenue
? Decrease Costs
? Delight Customers
? Preserve Our Most Vital Resource


Solving the Water Crisis With Data


Supply-side engineering – massive reservoirs, colossal water diversion schemes, pumping rivers across mountaintops, and even desalination – are relics of a bygone era in water management. The environmental and financial costs are simply too high. No supply-side solution can match the simplicity, resilience and effectiveness of a data-driven demand-side management program that reduces consumption, identifies losses, increases the life of our existing infrastructure and improves the financial capabilities of our utilities.

The development of the smart grid for water is, for the first time, providing water managers with a complete understanding of not only how much water is used, but where and when.

The 21st century water manager needs to manage the flow of data and information as well as the flow of water. Our future depends on it.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016212203
Publisher:	Advantage Media Group
Publication date:	03/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Trevor Hill is a leading voice for water scarcity management. He has led several successful water businesses, most recently founding Global Water FATHOM™ - a software-as-a-service company providing geospatial billing, customer service platforms and data-driven utility optimization analytics. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Canada’s Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario.

Graham Symmonds has 20 years of regulatory water policy and technology development experience including, advances in total water management using membrane bioreactors and developing communication, control and analysis systems for water and wastewater utilities. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

“The smart grid for water is the next big innovation to transform the water sector. This book is a must read for those looking to invest in water and those seeking an understanding of how these innovations will shape utilities of the future.”

Managing Director, XPV Capital Corporation - David Henderson

“The pace of development across a wide spectrum of technologies, coupled with increasing pressure to optimize performance, will cause profound changes within the water sector. Faced with the converging challenges of water scarcity, maintaining and expanding infrastructure, and the need to balance supply and demand down to the individual level, water utilities must embrace these changes fully. This book charts the course for the well-managed utility of the 21st century.”

Managing Director, JWH Consulting GmbH - James Hotchkies

“Current financial and natural resources challenges are forcing water utilities worldwide to become more efficient. Access to data and the right tools to manage it are essential in order to cope with those challenges. This book provides managers in the water sector, the insight necessary to advance and implement data-driven solutions enabling them to lead their utilities in the most efficient way.”

Chairman and CEO, Booky Oren Global Water Technologies Ltd. - Booky Oren

“Better information is the key to smarter water solutions, particularly now when financial stress, water scarcity, and aging infrastructure all loom so large. This timely work connects the dots and drops to help utilities and consumers increase the flow and use of data to improve efficiency and spur innovation.”

President, US Water Alliance - Ben Grumbles