Many water pipelines in the United States were installed in the early to mid-20th Century, with some systems still relying on cast-iron pipes more than 100 years old. Aging infrastructure stands as a critical challenge in the water sector for utilities across the nation, posing significant threats to the reliability and safety of water systems.

To expand digital transformation initiatives beyond the city of Valencia, and effectively manage up to 400 different services across a widely dispersed geographical area. Due to the nature of the project and the stakeholders involved, Global Omnium needed to integrate the systems, sensors, and communication protocols which were already installed across the various infrastructures it managed.

Provide integrated, in-depth, real-time knowledge on system, plant, and asset performance which would allow Global Omnium to more efficiently operate and manage the complex water network in Valencia, Spain and the surrounding metropolitan area.

Improve control, responsiveness, and efficiency of facilities and processes by providing real-time network status information and analyzing historical network and asset data. Increase resource management effectiveness and efficiency to provide customers with the highest level of service at the lowest possible cost.

Regulate and monitor pressures, supervise flow rates, consumption, and non-revenue water (NRW) in different sectors, and bring together system information from various sources including the SADM’s SCADA.

Air Selangor is a large water distribution company owned by the Malaysian state of Selangor. The public utility serves a population of 8.4 million residents and manages over 6200 kilometers of trunk mains, ranging from 300mm up to 2200mm, with much of the pipelines located in remote areas of the state.

Evansville is located on the north bank of the Ohio River in southwest Indiana. The City’s sewer system, parts of which are more than 100 years old, serves a population of 163,000, with combined sewers making up almost 40 percent of the total sewer area.

EMASESA (Empresa de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento de Aguas de Sevilla S.A.) is responsible for water cycle management in the Spanish city of Seville and its metropolitan area. The utility supplies approximately 100 hm3 of drinking water to 1.4 million residents in 12 municipalities every year, as well as distributing raw water to 31 municipalities, serving a total area of 1,220 km2. It manages a 4,000 km network, six water reservoirs, 35 pumping stations...

Xylem Vue is helping the Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro (CHE) reduce flood damage and implement an EWS for stakeholders managing disaster situations in the basin.  CHE is the water authority that manages, regulates and maintains the Ebro river basin, which covers a surface area of around 85,000 km2 and takes in 347 large rivers in northeastern Spain.  

As the level of national awareness for the need to protect our nation’s water resources continued to grow, federal and state regulators pursued a consent decree in 2006 requiring enhancements to Buffalo’s collection system.