IS WATER QUALITY THE POOR RELATION TO LEAKAGE?

摘要

This increased connectivity has made it abundantly clear that we as a race face some common problems, many of which involve our world of water. What are some of these "wicked problems" (as Will Sarni CEO of the Water Foundry calls them) that challenge us daily? Water scarcity, water inequality, water poverty, water pollution, water contamination are problems all around the world. Water water everywhere but how much can we drink? Our world of water is awash, pardon the pun, with talk of digital transformation and leveraging the power of big data and the IoT to make the world of water a better and maybe a fairer place. When I survey the drinking water supply landscape from my vantage point as a SWAN Forum Ambassador and SWIG board member, I see some amazing progress in the field of leak detection and leak reduction. The price and complexity of leak detection technologies such as noise logging and pressure logging have tumbled in the past couple of years to allow water utilities to deploy sometimes tens of thousands of sensors to locate leaks more efficiently and effectively. AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) harness smart water meters, data communications infrastructure and data analysis to unpeel the leakage onion and identify for example customer side leakage.