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Building a fit-for-future utility

Success starts with the fit-for-future fundamentals: innovation, resilience, Intelligent Water, asset management and the workforce.
New and existing challenges are reshaping utility management and the water sector. Utilities are striving to proactively enhance operations, maximize capital and improve sustainability. Our experts’ research, insights and project stories dive into the five fundamentals of becoming fit-for-future. Discover the ways you can use them to strengthen your utility’s long-term outlook.

The five fundamentals of a fit-for-future utility

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Intelligent Water

Complex resilience and affordability challenges continually threaten our mission to serve communities. Intelligent Water can transform your ability to identify and implement optimized solutions.
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Resilience

A resilient mindset can help water utilities to meet their mission regardless of shocks and stressors.
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Advanced Asset Management

The pressure on utilities to perform is intensified by deteriorating infrastructure assets. Achieving today’s goals while preparing for tomorrow’s challenges means reimagining how you manage your assets – the pipes, people and everything in between.
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Workforce

The future water workforce will be digitally skilled, diverse and more mobile in their careers. Harnessing their unique backgrounds and ways of working will lead to more creative ideas, sustainable solutions and healthier relationships with the communities we serve.
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Innovation

One of the biggest misconceptions is that innovation is a new technology – it’s not. Innovation is the application of technology to improve our ability to deliver water to customers.
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Expert viewpoints

Opinions, outlooks and podcasts from our subject matter experts straight to you.

Learning from the Machine: Improving O&M with data you already have

Machine learning can be a powerful tool. But many organizations might be surprised by how much they can learn through thoughtful analysis of the historical data already on-hand.
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Becoming fit enough to tackle One Water’s 3 biggest challenges

One Water and becoming fit-for-future have a lot in common, starting with the mission: giving everyone safe, convenient and affordable access to potable water. Embracing the connections will be pivotal to overcoming One Water’s three biggest challenges.
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Water wants to become fit-for-future – is it looking in the right places?

When most water utilities talk about becoming fit-for-future, they tend to focus on technology that improves operations and protects infrastructure. But successful change depends on how we leverage our most important asset: people.
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How 1 drop of Intelligent Water lowers OPEX across the water cycle

Jim Cooper describes how clients are using one of The Four Drops of Intelligent Water, Intelligent Ops, to reduce operational expenditures across the water cycle.

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Bringing the value of advanced asset management to stormwater

A risk-based approach to save money and enhance resilience requires new stormwater-specific digital tools and national guidance.

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How U.S. resilience changed in 2019—and what it means for 2020

Resilience experts Carly Foster and Edgar Westerhof discuss the most significant resilience gains from the past year and the ways they could shape resilience planning in 2020.
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Fit-for-Future Utilities Podcast

Take Fit-for-Future with you!

Listen as our experts discuss the new and existing challenges reshaping the water sector. Available on Soundcloud

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How were the five fundamentals established?

Download and read our founding papers.

Digitally Enabled Innovation Download pdf (3.49 MB)
Demystifying Intelligent Water Download pdf (4.25 MB)
Resilience Reimagined Download pdf (2.54 MB)
Advanced Asset Management Download pdf (1.28 MB)

FEATURED PROJECTS

Find out how we work with our clients to achieve their goals and improve quality of life.

Find out how we work with our clients to achieve their goals and improve quality of life.
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Contact us

Get in touch with Jim Cooper for more information

Global Director for Water Optimization


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Get in touch with Frank Goossensen for more information

Global Sales Director, Resilience


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