The green opportunity triad - Part I
Three ways today’s technology can deliver bottom-line results and a sustainable water future
Conservation and sustainability is on everybody’s lips these days. But with water loss and aging infrastructures growing into major concerns, we shouldn’t just talk about a sustainable water future. It requires action today. Too much drinking water disappears on the way to the consumers or is consumed without being metered, which makes it difficult for utilities to know when and where to take action.
Intelligent meters, remote reading and advanced analytics offer more than accurate and fair billing. While contributing to black bottom lines and optimizations within operations, customer relations and asset management, they also bring a triad of green opportunities such as lowering water consumption, fighting Non-Revenue Water and reducing energy consumption.
In this blog series we want to dive deeper into those win-win green opportunities to explore what concrete results can be achieved already today for a bright sustainable water future. In the first part we will look into the role of end consumer awareness in lowering consumption.
Lowering water consumption through awareness
Above all, conserving our water resources means using less of them. Many countries today enjoy the privilege of an abundance of water, or have a secured water supply. But with climate change, drought and growing population challenges, we all still have a crucial role to play in ensuring a sustainable water distribution many years from now by eliminating excess use of water.
Lowering water consumption through awareness
Above all, conserving our water resources means using less of them. Many countries today enjoy the privilege of an abundance of water, or have a secured water supply. But with climate change, drought and growing population challenges, we all still have a crucial role to play in ensuring a sustainable water distribution many years from now by eliminating excess use of water.
A key factor in lowering water consumption is end-user engagement – but before that comes awareness. This is especially a challenge in areas where customers are billed based on flat rates because this eliminates the correlation between their consumption and their water bill. In addition to providing that link, consumption-based billing based on precise measurements from intelligent water meters ensures that each customer pays only for the exact amount of water they have used.