Water Management is influenced by Smart (AMR) Water Metering

Abstract

This paper serves as a guideline to us for developing and globally deploying smart water metering as a part of the urban water management. Identifying the potential that smart metering holds over revolutionizing the whole consumer engagement and water management of urban water.

Water is the origin of life on earth. Every living organism is somehow dependent on water to sustain their life. There is no Life without Water. Thus, Water is Life! And now, thousands of years after that first living cell was originated, we have evolved, we have developed and we have created such a scenario that this Life is in danger now as we have been ignorant towards this inexpensive and plentiful utility.

Water is a basic necessity but the ability to pay for it in India is very limited. If the water is lost in distribution . When Transmission, Supply systems are reduced then only it is possible to deliver water in the areas which not receiving the water supply properly. This greatly improves the revenue of the organization with comparatively lesser investment.

The major portion of the total usable water is wasted as leakage, some of it is lost to inaccurate metering, and the rest is wasted in unauthorized use, and only some of it is delivered to customers. A water audit helps determine end point of the water and how much of it managed to get there. The depth of detail in the water audit varies on the basis of the information available in the system.

Shirpur, a city suffering from water crises due to scanty rainfall. So, to escape this problem, they accepted mission save water by installing 14000 smart meters they save Daily 20 lakh liters of water.