The Annual Black & Veatch 'Strategic Directions: Water Report' Available for Download

The annual Black & Veatch 'Strategic Directions: Water Report' addresses contemporary issues affecting water service providers around the globe.

This year’s report demonstrates that water is becoming a high-tech proposition. Data is increasingly driving the conversation, as water utilities and municipalities come to realize the powerful role it can play.

Unlike their predecessors, today’s utilities are able to harness the power of analytics, which can deliver actionable information allowing them to optimize systems, cut costs and in effect, do more with less, even as systems age.

Regionally, utilities continue to tackle ongoing challenges related to resilience, sustainability and an uncertain regulatory environment.

Perhaps more than ever, utilities are realizing how vulnerable legacy systems are to climate change – as arid conditions and frequent drought cycles strike the West, heavy rain events and flooding soak the Midwest and Northeast, increasingly frequent extreme storms batter the Gulf and Eastern Coasts, and seawater threatens to intrude on the low-lying cities along the Atlantic.

But the battle against time remains top priority – according to survey results, utilities said their No. 1 challenge is maintaining and expanding the life of their aging assets, even as budgets are stretched beyond breaking. The reality conveyed throughout this year’s report is that capital costs will continue to rise as existing infrastructure ages well beyond expectations.

The 2018 Strategic Directions: Water Report provides expert analysis on all these issues, and many more.

Source: Black & Veatch

Download the full  2018 Water Report

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