IBM Advanced Water Management
IBM Advanced Water Management solutions address the challenges of water efficiency, ageing infrastructure, and increased demand for proactive water-related risk management by leveraging all of the benefits of smarter automation and digitization. We enable strategic information management solutions and intelligent infrastructures to support the management of entire natural water systems, levee systems, water infrastructure, water utilities, and water treatment facilities.

Water Stress is Everywhere
Water is one of the world's most abundant substances. However, it is also fast becoming one of the planet's most stressed resources. Access to clean water has emerged as a critical issue affecting economic activity, development, and business around the world. Increasing regulatory pressures, climate change, aging workforce, failing infrastructure, growing focus on social responsibility, and environmentally related risk management are forcing organizations to reassess the impact of water management on their economic well being.

The Need for Smarter Water Management
As water management issues continue to mount and costs continue to increase, information technology and collaborative innovation will play an instrumental role helping communities, businesses, and governments deal with the tremendous complexity ahead. The combination of volumes of data, the need for mining across different and new data types and the demand for real-time responses requires a new kind of water management intelligence and models that encompasses scalable, statistical algorithms, and massively parallel approaches. Current data infrastructures limited in scalability and interoperability inhibit timely and effective decision making across departments and organizations. Next generation water management systems need to be more flexible while providing more robust real-time analytics, modeling, and decision support capabilities.