Geo-enabled Water Industry
Geospatial technology provides solutions for the entire water infrastructure lifecycle — from planning, designing, and construction, to operation and maintenance of water and wastewater systems. Some of these solutions can address the entire water lifecycle: from water treatment plants and network systems to water distribution to consumers, to a network to collect sewerage and wastewater treatment plants. Hydraulic analysis enables engineers to know how many pumps they need, what is the right size of the pipes, and whether there is enough capacity, and also help the users identify leaks in the system. Geospatial tools can also improve the quality of asset planning, and identify what piping assets need attention based on pipe breakage, capacity, or criticality. This technology ultimately ensures long-term system reliability by decreasing not only pipe breaks and leakage, but also lost revenues and outages. The programme shall attempt to bring forward stakeholders in water industry to discuss the impact of geospatial technology in water utility business and its future areas of application.
Speakers
European Federation of National Drinking Water and Waste Water Associations (EurEau)
The Netherlands
Bentley Systems
The Netherlands
Association of Drinking Water Companies (VEWIN)
The Netherlands
Manila Water Company
Philippines
Rezatec
United Kingdom