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摘要

Water systems built generations ago are reaching and exceeding the end of their useful life. Water utilities in the U.S. face the challenge of renewing or replacing that aging water and wastewater infrastructure. This single critical issue has topped the American Water Works Association (AWWA; Denver) State of the Water Industry Report for the last seven years. Second on the AWWA's list of utility concerns over the same seven-year period has been financing for capital improvements. Until recently, this combination of infrastructure and budgeting challenges has been met with a patchwork of proprietary water metering and management solutions that have delivered incremental levels of automation but remain costly to operate and are not designed to scale to support a broader set of emerging municipal resource conservation and sustainability initiatives.