New and existing challenges are reshaping utility management and the water sector. Utilities are striving to proactively enhance operations, maximize capital and improve sustainability. Success starts with the fit-for-future fundamentals: innovation, resilience, Intelligent Water, asset management and the workforce.
Use our experts’ research, insights and project stories to dive into the five fundamentals. Examine the keys to each element and the ways you can use them to strengthen your utility’s long-term outlook.
Featured Insights
Demystifying Intelligent Water
Intelligent Water can help your organization reimagine its future. Our insight series, developed with Bluefield research, can accelerate the journey.
Read more
Expert viewpoints
Opinions and outlooks from the desks of our subject matter experts.
Becoming fit enough to tackle One Water’s 3 biggest challenges
Water wants to become fit-for-future – is it looking in the right places?
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.
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.
How U.S. resilience changed in 2019—and what it means for 2020
case studies
More on Fit-for-Future Utilities
Digital Twins
Digital Twins are an Intelligent Water tool for exploring optimization. Discover what they are and how they can help your utility realize its full potential.
READ MOREArcadis, City of Columbus to reduce sewage overflow with innovative modeling approach
Project will provide city with ability to quickly see where the greatest need occurs, prioritize investments and ultimately reduce overflows.
READ MOREWEF's "Words on Water" with Jim Cooper
Jim explains the concept of collective intelligence and how a digital future can empower water sector employees, not replace them.
READ MOREAffordability through advanced asset management
Angela Goodwin details how smart technologies can deliver data-driven insights that lead to cost savings potential for utilities and their customers.
READ MORE'Intelligent water' could save U.S water utilities $17.6 billion, by water Finance & Management
WFM recaps the financial benefits outlined in Demystifying Intelligent Water: Creating a human-centric future with artificial intelligence and predictive analytics.
READ MORE