IBM Software Group, Industry Solutions
April 2013
Fixing the future:
Why we need smarter water management
for the world’s most essential resource
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Water is our most essential resource
Water is a resource for which there is no alternative
The Water Nexus
Transport
Health
Energy
Water
Food
Production of other
goods and services
Source: Center for Economic Analysis, IBM Institute for Business Value
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Water is our most essential resource
Water has a direct impact on health and is a critical enabler for
development
Water and Human Development
2011
 Access to safe drinking water is critical
for health, especially for children
1.0
 Poor quality water can make workers
unproductive and take them out of the
workforce altogether
0.8
 80% of diseases in developing countries
are attributed to poor quality water
Water is the elixir of life
Human Development Index
 Over 50% of the world’s hospital beds
are occupied by people suffering from
water related diseases
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0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0
— Atharvaveda, 2000 BC
Source: UN Human Development Report and World Bank World Development Indicators database
Note: Human Development Index is 2011 data and water series is latest available data, generally 2010
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R2 = 0.65
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% of population with access to improved
source of water
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Water is our most essential resource
Water is key for food production
Water is a key driver of
agricultural production
affecting yields and crop failure
2000-5,000 liters water
needed to produce a
person’s daily food
Irrigated agriculture
accounts for 80% of
global water use and
40% of world’s food
production
Water
Water scarcity will be
the major constraint
on food production in
the next few decades
Food
Food production will
need to increase by
70% by 2050,
impacting demand for
water
Demand for irrigation and use of agrichemicals is a
major source of water pollution
Source: FAO; Foresight. The future of Food & Farming (2011); UN Water
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Water is our most essential resource
Our energy system is heavily reliant on water
and also has an impact on our water system
Energy
production
accounts for
49% of total
water use in
the US and
44% in the EU
Energy production
growth is
expected to
require 165%
increase in water
use between
2000 and 2025 in
the US
Water
consumption
for energy
production will
increase 130%
in the EU
between 2000
and 2030
US oil and
gas industry
produces 60m
barrels of
wastewater
daily
Each year
260,000
barrels of
oil spill
into the
Niger Delta
Water
Energy
Drought in the US led in 2012 led
to price increases for electric
power in California
Central and South China
experienced power
shortages due to severe
drought in 2011
Impact on water quality from
hydraulic fracturing– ‘fracking’- has
led to its ban in many areas
including parts of the US, South
Africa and Australia
Source: USGS; European Environmental Agency 2009; World Economic Forum 2009; Huffington Post 2012; The New York Times 2010; Mother Nature Network 2012; Reuters 2011;
Petroleum Economist 2011; China Daily 2011; The New York Times 2012
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Intensifying global water vulnerabilities
The global water system is facing several interrelated challenges
that lead to critical vulnerabilities
Water Stress
Water resources worldwide are
diminishing while demand for
those resources is increasing
Workforce
Shortage of workers with the
right industry skills
Infrastructure
Water infrastructure is
inadequate and ageing
Quality
Flooding
Water quality globally
is declining
Frequency and intensity of
flooding are increasing
Source: IBV Analysis
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Intensifying global water vulnerabilities
More intense and frequent floods result in significant human
and financial costs
Mozambique,
2000
 223,000 people
affected
 Cost: US$419m
1980-2012
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India, 2005
Pakistan, 2010
 20 million
people affected
 Cost: US$3.3bn
 20 million
affected
 Cost: US$43bn
2002
2000
Central
Europe, 2002
 450,000 people
affected
 Cost:
US$14.9bn
2007
2005
United
Kingdom,
2007
 55,000 homes
and businesses
flooded
 Cost: US$6.5bn
2011
4,000 flood disasters globally
3.5 billion people affected
6.9 million people killed
US$559 billion of damage
Over half of developing
countries’ population will
be highly vulnerable to
floods and storms
33% increase in
population
globally at risk of
flooding from
1.2bn to 1.6bn
2070
2012
2025
2010
2050
Italy, 2011
 20 died in
Liguria
 River Po
rose 4m
 EU funds
€17m
China, 2012
 800,000 people
displaced after
flooding in wake of
post powerful
typhoon in 60 years
Population in 136 big port cities
expected to grow 300% and
value of flood-exposed economic
assets in these cities could
reach 9% of global GDP
Source: International Recovery Platform, Humanitarian Futures Programme 2005, Risk Management Solutions 2003, UK Environment Agency 2007, Reliefweb 2009, 2010, China State
Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters 2011, EM-DAT
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Intensifying global water vulnerabilities
Problems with water quality and wastewater are worsening.
2m tons
783m
638%
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Sewage and industrial and agricultural waste are discharged into the
world’s water daily

Number of people globally that do not have access to improved
sources of drinking water

Growth in number of people using bottled water in urban areas to
meet drinking water needs, from 26m in 1990 to 192m in 2010
 Sewage levels in rivers in the US could be back to the super-polluted levels of the
1970s by the year 2016
 With population growth, the number of people without access to safe water expected
to rise to 2 billion by 2025
 By 2050, nearly 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas,
magnifying existing challenges managing water and wastewater
Source: The United Nations World Water Development Report 2003; UNICEF and WHO 2012; Reddy, K 2008; OCHA Occasional Policy Briefing Series – No. 4 2010; OECD 2012
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
A new approach is needed to more effectively deal with the
challenges in our water system
To deal with….
We need to more
effectively……
So we can……
Water Stress
 Improve supply and
demand management
 Reduce the gap between
demand and supply
Infrastructure
 Improve asset and
network management
 Improve delivery and
efficiency, reduce maintenance
cost
Floods
 Analyze and predict
flooding
 Improve preparedness and
response, mitigate cost
Quality
 Monitor and control
pollution
 Improve and maintain quality,
reduce pollution
Workforce
 Develop and maintain
corporate memory
 Preserve organizational
knowledge and improve
attractiveness of industry
Source: IBM
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IBM’s Intelligent Operations for Water provides an open unifying
platform for harnessing data and advance analytics to deliver
richer insights at multiple scales
• Leverage real-time visibility of across systems to optimize cost efficiencies
• Anticipate and proactively manage problems to mitigate impact to services and citizens
• Coordinate cross-agency operations with business and citizen participation to drive economic
prosperity and enhance citizen involvement
One platform, many use cases
• Organization-wide dashboards
• Domain analytics
• Event and KPI management
• Geospatial mapping
• Data modeling and integration
• Simulation and visualization
• Cross-department collaboration
• Situational awareness
• Incident management
• Alerts and directives
…within
a particular
service
area area
or
…start
within
a particular
service
managing
across across
many services
or manage
services
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IBM Intelligent Operations for Water (IOW) helps make water &
wastewater operations more efficient, proactive, & customer centric
 Improve revenue
 Reduce cost
 Mitigate risk
Water & Wastewater Operations
(Source to Discharge)
Water Infrastructure, Assets
Weather & External data
Coordinated Response –
Flooding, Pipe Burst
Customer Service, CRM
 Real time situational awareness of operations
 Rich out of the box industry content (3 KPIs w/drill down, water
icons & system maps, pre-loaded sample data & asset types
 On-prem and Cloud delivery
 Targeted at Public AND Private water operations, Industrial users
Financial Return
 Waste Water: Avoid / mitigate combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and basement flooding with real time information and
performance monitoring of wastewater systems
 Water Conservation / Irrigation: Reduce / better manage Golf Courses and large farms’ water consumption through
smarter irrigation and operational awareness
 Flood Management: Mitigate and manage potential urban flooding, large disruptions through analysis, correlation of data
and automated workflows
 Water Quality management: Manage water quality events and better comply with regulations
 Water Usage management: Oil & Gas companies better manage water & wastewater operations and regulatory
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
Smarter water management enables users to more effectively
manage demand and helps utilities better manage supplies
Water Stress
Data
Data on water demand and supply collected from sensors and
smart meter systems across industrial or utilities’ networks
Analysis
Real-time data analysis and data visualization generates insight on
water consumption behavior and supply conditions
Decisions
More effectively manage demand by users and more effectively
control supply through better storage, treatment and distribution
Co-ordination
Enables improved collaboration across multiple stakeholders by
enabling stakeholders to access and share data on a single
platform
Source: IBM
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
Dubuque, Iowa improves water conservation with a smarter
system that provides deep insight on water consumption trends
Capabilities
 Real-time platform monitors water consumption every
15 minutes
 Securely transmits anonymous data to the cloud
where it analyzed with weather and other data
 Quickly and automatically notifies households of
potential leaks and anomalies
 Water usage information expressed in $, gallon and
carbon savings
 Insight into water consumption trends for citizens,
city policy makers and the city water department
Benefits
 Decreased water
utilization by 6.6%
during pilot
 Anticipated annual
savings over 23,000
households of 64.9m
gallons
 Increased water leak
detection of 8%
compared to 0.98%
citywide, a 716%
increase
“….Our citizens now have access to real-time data enabling them to alter their
patterns of behavior, which will save them money and conserve a precious
resource.”
— Roy D. Buol, Mayor of Dubuque
Source: IBM
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Water Conservation and Energy Conservation Portals
Helped
Citizens
Save 7.3%
on energy
consumption
Helped
Citizens
Save 6.6%
and report
leaks 8x
better
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Mayor’s Dashboard based on Citizen Input
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
Sonoma County uses smarter water management to increase
water use efficiency and more effectively manage supplies
Capabilities
Benefits
 Near real-time common
operating picture
 More informed decisions about storage, treatment
and distribution of water
 Data from meters in
distribution network
and customer plant
sites is aggregated with
third-party data
 Support routine decision making to increase
water use efficiency and energy efficiency
 Data is analyzed,
visualized and
presented in a
management portal,
creating geospatial
intelligence
 Proactively avoid mismanagement and plan for
day-to-day use, as well as minimize the effects of
seasonal droughts and floods
 Allows all stakeholders to share and access
information
 Helps SCWA and its retail water customers
collaborate and cooperate to more effectively
manage water supply
“By effectively managing every drop of water in our system we can ensure
that we can meet the needs of people, the environment and the community”
— SCWA Chief Engineer Jay Jasperse
Source: IBM
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
Smarter water management improves preparedness and
response to flooding
Flooding
Data
Real-time data from river systems, sensors and weather is
aggregated and combined with historical data to give a unified view
of the physical infrastructure
Analysis
Analytics and advanced weather simulation models used to monitor
and predict water flows and floods and pinpointing potential
flood
Decisions
More effective decisions on emergency and disaster response;
better investment decisions by identifying weak points of existing
infrastructure or where new infrastructure is needed
Co-ordination
Supports improved co-ordination of emergency and disaster
response to more effectively manage and respond to risks
Source: IBM
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
Rio de Janeiro uses analytics to predict, alert and reduce the
impact of flooding
Capabilities
Benefits
Implementation of a high-resolution weather
forecasting and hydrological modeling
system
Predict heavy rains
up to 48 hours in
advance
Applies analytical models to more effectively
predict and coordinate reaction to
emergency incidents
Speeds public alerts
and warning systems
about potential floods
and landslides
Integrates information and processes from
across 30 different city agencies
Single operations center that provides a
holistic view of how the city is functioning
Drastically reduces
the reaction times to
emergency
situations
“In Rio de Janeiro, we are applying technology to benefit the population
and effectively transitioning to a smarter city.”
— Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes
Source: IBM
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
South Bend, Indiana, is the world’s first city to monitor and
control its sewage system and stormwater in the cloud
Capabilities
Network of sensors measures
and communicates the depth
and flow of storm water in
near-real-time
Data is aggregated to
monitor, control and more
effectively manage
capabilities using
technology hosted on the
cloud
Delivers a unified view of
the physical infrastructure
Benefits
Cuts wet weather overflows by 23% and
dry weather overflows from 27 per year to 1
Gains an extra 10 million gallons of
capacity in its water system
Avoids US$120 million in infrastructure
investments plus more than US$600,000 in
potential government fines
Enables easier, faster procurement from
operational budget rather than funding
infrastructure from capital budgets
"Anticipating and preventing incidents before they happen is key. Viewing
all our aggregated data in real-time…..will help us predict where incidents
can occur and safeguard our citizens.”
— Gary Gilot, Member, Board of Public Works, City of South Bend
Source: IBM
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WATERGRID Project – three year project in Italy through end of 2014
Project for the research & implementation of innovation in water distribution.
The project is aimed to optimize water distribution grids (leaks, energy costs) by
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Software tools for grid modeling, calibration, optimization and simulation
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Constant real-time collection of physical & chemical parameters
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Central management system for real time grid monitoring and remote operations
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Automated remote reading of water meters in support of the above goals
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Energy saving via
Project assets:
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Grid modeling, optimization and simulation (GMOS)
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Grid centralized automation and control (GCAM)
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Grid advanced analytic and reporting (GAAR)
Four project partners:
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Ministero Italiano Università e Ricerca
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Azienda Risorse Idriche Napoli
Utility managing water distribution in the Naples metropolitan area
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Università di Napoli – Federico II
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica, Geotecnica e Ambientale
IBM Industry Solutions Lab – Rome
IBM Italy Rome Smart Solutions Lab (RSSL)
marcello.vitaletti@it.ibm.com
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WATERGRID Project - Vision of the overall system
Analysis Tools
Central Management System
Visualization
Modeling
Optimization
Simulation
IBM RSSL
Extensions
IBM Intelligent
Water
Management
Meter Mgmt System
Collected
Meter
Data
IBM Meter
Data Source
IBM Field
Data Sources
EPANET
Hydraulic Simulation Engine
3rd Party Meter Head-End (DCS)
1st Level - 3rd Party SCADA
Field
Programmable
Devices
Wireless
Infrastructure
Water Meters
Sensors, Actuators
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IBM Italy Rome Smart Solutions Lab (RSSL)
marcello.vitaletti@it.ibm.com
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
Smarter water management enhances the ability of utilities
and industrial users to monitor and control water quality
Water Quality
Data
Analysis
Decisions
Co-ordination
Network of sensors and instrumentation across industrial or
utilities’ networks collects data on water quality
Analysis of real-time data through data visualization and scenario
simulation tools enhances monitoring of water quality
Detect and pin-point issues for more effective and rapid
response to quality problems
Enables improved collaboration across multiple stakeholders by
enabling stakeholders to access and share data on a single
platform
Source: IBM
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Sustainable growth through smarter water management
A Canadian Environmental Health Ministry used smarter
systems to proactively enhance water quality
Capabilities
 Geospatial view of water resources and
management systems in real time
 Analyzes and visually pin-point any issues
with water quality, delivers automated alerts
 Supports rapid response to prevent water
contamination while providing insights for longterm planning
 Creates a single source for information
about water systems and treatment facilities for
hundreds of communities
Benefits
 Reduced the disease
outbreaks due to waterborne
contaminates by 100% since
2009
 Met or exceeded every
water quality regulation
since 2009
 Provides citizens with public
access to water
management data for the
first time
“We are responsible for managing a watershed and the water quality of 410,000
square miles of land. This solution pinpoints any vulnerabilities to prevent any
contamination of the water supply”
— Canadian Environmental Ministry representative
Source: IBM
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