Digital Twins Help Utilities Optimize Water Infrastructure Management
(Print PDH from the May 2020 issue of Informed Infrastructure)
Course Information
As a water utility, you are facing a range of problems in your efforts to provide reliable, resilient and affordable water systems. Some of the most common concerns are rising electricity prices; aging assets and infrastructure; increasing water scarcity and loss; growing urban populations and shrinking rural ones; and extreme weather events resulting from global climate change, including hurricanes, floods and droughts. Fortunately, there are similarly wide-ranging solutions to many of these problems, from public-private partnerships to conservation awareness to smart water technologies. Increasingly, utilities are adding digitalization to this list.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this article, the reader should be able to know:
• Why it’s important for water professionals to understand the value digital twins bring to utility management and operations.
• What advantages digital twins provide compared to traditional network tools.
• How integrated digital twins have the power to drive business strategy.
• How water utilities around the world are using digital twins to gain new insights.