Sustainable, real-time wastewater utilities

摘要

With increasing populations, stricter regulations, and soaring costs, wastewater utilities around the world feel the increasing pressure of remaining sustainable. With the continued social, economic, and environmental challenges, this paper discusses how real-time and historical data enables wastewater utilities to save and make money, meet stringent environmental discharge regulations and achieve sustainability. From the thousands of wastewater utilities around the world, many are not collecting or fully utilizing the data they are regularly generating. This is due in large part to the challenges of disparate data systems, lack of understanding about advanced data analysis and ever-changing technology environments. Case studies will demonstrate how utilities can leverage real-time information to integrate their operations and disparate systems, as well as provide enterprise visibility in support of real-time decision making at all levels of the organization. With real-time data, wastewater utilities manage assets and increase their lifecycle, defer millions of dollars in capital expenditures, streamline billing systems, optimize operations, reduce energy and chemical consumption, enable capacity planning, meet and monitor environmental compliance, ensure public safety, and achieve corporate susta ina bility in a secure and auditable manner.