US water utility survey shows market is ready for AMI In North America, a water utility survey has revealed that three quarters of US providers are planning to spend up to US$1 million on smart water in the next 12 months (75%). The report based on a survey of 86 water utilities found that nine […]
10 companies making waves in water innovation The data on water scarcity continues to be sobering, and shortages increasingly are linked to both natural and human-made causes. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in regions that face “absolute water scarcity,” reports the United Nations. Stemming the losses and re-diverting the flow to stressed regions […]
Dear All, We have the pleasure to present the first edition of the Smart Water Network Newsletter. Our purpose is to promote a worldwide information sharing on innovation, applications and breakthrough projects of Smart Water Network (SWN) solutions within the context of the European demonstration project SmartWater4Europe (SW4EU). This experience sharing newsletter is expected to […]
200 pairs of ears and eyes in the Friesland mains network Vitens to install first major smart drinking water network in the world Zwolle, 2 November 2015 – Vitens is the first drinking water utility company in the world to install a large-scale smart drinking water mains network. In order to achieve this, the 9,000 […]
The SunRise Forum Lille 2015 was organized at the University of Lille1 November 9 and 10. The conference was supported by 40 sponsors from the both the public and private sectors. Around 200 participants attended this conference and around 2000 peoples followed from 40 countries followed the conference through live steaming. The conference included 8 […]
“INTERREG Balkan-Mediterranean 2014-2020” is a new cooperation Programme, deriving from both the strong will of the “BalkanMed” participating countries to promote cooperation in the area and the split of the “South East Europe 2007-2013″. The Programme brings together five countries, three EU member states (Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece) and two candidate countries, Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of […]
The 2016 Conference of the European Innovation Partnership on Water will be held on 10 February 2016 in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, announced the EIP Water on 27 May 2015. This third EIP Water Conference builds up on the success of its first two Conferences in 2013 and 2014 in Brussels and Barcelonarespectively. In early March […]
The Water Research Foundation is an internationally recognized leader in water research that is dedicated to advancing the science of water by sponsoring cutting-edge research and promoting collaboration. Our research provides industry insights and practical solutions to the most complex challenges facing the water community today and into the future. The challenges to sustaining a […]
European Innovation Partnerships (EIP) aim to speed up innovations that contribute to solving societal challenges, enhance Europe’s competitiveness and contribute to job creation and economic growth. EIPs help to pool expertise and resources by bringing together public and private actors at EU, national and regional level, combining supply- and demand-side measures. The European Innovation Partnership […]
The SmartH2O project aims at developing an ICT platform to understand and model the consumers’ current behaviour, based on historical and real-time water usage data, predict how the consumer behaviour can be influenced by various water demand management policies: water savings campaigns, social awareness campaigns, to dynamic water pricing schemes, and raise the awareness of […]
