Be more efficient in supplying enough drinking water
Water utilities need to be more efficient in supplying enough drinking water for the (growing) population to meet their mandate within tight budgets
Need characteristics
Societal challenges
- Water security
Themes
Supply sufficient drinking water of good quality to protect population health
Sub themes
Increase efficiency of drinking water supply
Stakeholder group
- Water Utilities (WU)
Task/Job
- Extraction, purification and distribution of drinking water
Pain
- Complexity and inflexibility of water treatment methods
- Decrease in water quality and quantity
- High cost of equipment
- High cost of products to treat water and reduce turbidity
Gain
- Efficient purification process and distribution systems (optimization)
Simplified climate and water scenarios
- Dryer
- Sea-level rise
- Wetter
- Wetter & Dryer
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