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As of today the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - Q03/2011 are released and available from http://swm-group.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html   (1) If you encounter any problems accessing the Notes please request a free copy of the Notes from: swm.group@gmx.net . You are also invited to share the download link with other interested stakeholders and/or inform concerned parties about the platform S ustainable | W ater | M anagement . As in the previous releases, the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management are intended to provide interested stakeholders with up-to-date information about ongoing developments related to water and its management, also addressing closely related issues like climate change. The present release of the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management comes with contributions from key stakeholders in the field of sustainability: > 2 Key Notes (Frost & Sullivan, IBM) > Technology (ITU) > Research (Itron, etc.)

The platform S ustainable | W ater | M anagement is listed on page 1 of the Google-Search engine. By typing in the phrase "Sustainable Water Management" the home page of the platform is the 7th hit out of more than 12'300'000 entries. Further readings: [ 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ]

Increasingly it seems to be recognised that modern telecommunication/IT systems may be able to universally help facilitate sustainable water management. Various sectors, be it the building sector, the agricultural sector [1, 2], or other production businesses (e.g. car manufacturing, chemical industry, etc.) have shown the urgent need for intelligent and economic resource (here: water) management systems [3]. A number of stakeholders are preparing solutions that may provide a robust technical and technological basis in order to meet this particular near future demand [4]. In order to prove the profitability of the various approaches, a number of business cases have been studied and reports already have been issued [5] or will be released quite soon [6]. Further readings: [ 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ], [ 4 ], [ 5 ], [ 6 ] QR:

Announcement: the next issue of the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - Q03/2011 will be released Friday, 30th September 2011 at 02:00 p.m. (CEST). Key topic of this issue will be smart technologies, smart grids, smart metering - in particular but not solely concentrating in water. Further readings: [ 1 ], [ 2 ]  QR:

As addressed previously, mobile phone networks (the backbone) seem to represent a valuable alternative when installing smart (water) metering services. Accordingly, the big players Veolia and Orange have teamed-up and established a unique smart (water) metering operator: m2o city. It can seriously be assumed that other resource service providers and mobile phone network operators but also mobile phone hardware component manufacturers will entire this market segment in the very near future. Further readings: [ 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ] new Article QR-Code:

Silver Spring Networks and Freestyle Technology have agreed to integrate the Freestyle Zigbee-based smart water meter module with the Silver Spring Smart Energy Platform. The Zigbee-enabled smart water meter is designed to help water utilities gain visibility in water usage, so they can better manage consumption and accurately identify leaks, while optimizing water flow and distribution to customers.  The open application and distributed platform of the technology will link communications, metering and other sensory systems across transmission, distribution, retail and consumer networks. At the same time, Silver Spring’s secure IPv6-based Smart Energy Platform will enable two-way connectivity between utilities and their customers to provide better distributed monitoring and management of critical networks, including water. Further readings: [ 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ], [ 4 ]