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

Hill, Trevor; Symmonds, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1599323893 ISBN 13: 9781599323893

Publisher: Advantage Media Group, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Review:

“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.”
                                              Ben Grumbles, President, US Water Alliance, former Assistant Administrator for Water (USEPA)

“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.”   Booky Oren, Chairman and CEO, Booky Oren Global Water Technologies Ltd, former Chairman, Mekorot

“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.” James Hotchkies, Managing Director, JWH Consulting GmbH
“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.” David Henderson, Managing Director, XPV Capital Corporation

About this edition

• Publisher: Advantage Media Group
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1599323893
• ISBN 13: 9781599323893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160