Smarter Water Management

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1 Smarter Water Management WATER: Quality, Quantity, and the Need for Innovative Technologies Industry s Role Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable Meeting June 30, 2010 Jim Loving Business Development Executive loving@us.ibm.com

2 Will there be an aha moment for the Energy-Carbon-Water Nexus? USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, 12/7/1941 BP Oil Platform, Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico, 4/20/2010

3 IBM has a long history in environmental stewardship 1976: Think!, the company magazine, devoted an entire issue to IBM s energy conservation and environmental programs 1990: Think! Devoted an entire issue to IBM s environmental programs beginning IBM s annual Corporate Environmental Reporting 44% 1991: Established IBM s Product Stewardship Program 96% 2006: Amount of IT product and product waste processed by IBM s product End-of-Life Management operations that was reused or recycled 1997: IBM becomes the first major multinational to earn a single global registration to the ISO environmental management system standard : Between 1990 and 2006, IBM s global energy conservation actions reduced or avoided CO 2 emissions equal to 44% of its 1990 emissions 2006: IBMers Jam on innovation for a better planet, and IBM invests in Big Green Innovations 1971: T. J. Watson Jr. issued IBM s first corporate policy on environmental protection 1989: IBM offers its first product takeback program 95% : Reduction in hazardous waste generation since the 1987 base year of this pollution prevention metric 1992: IBM becomes charter member of Energy Star Program 1994: Established Global Materials Recovery Center Network for product reuse and recycling 2007: Invested in Intelligent Utility Networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Project Big Green Collaborating to develop solutions

4 To realize the benefits of green or sustainability, an organization must take a systemic view of its value chain. Environmental sustainability is an imperative for 21st century business one that not only encompasses conservation, pollution prevention, and more, but also enables the creation of entirely new value and benefits. Lower costs while overcoming operational barriers. Strengthen reputations while meeting regulations. Create products and services that give rise to new markets. MANUFACTURING IT CUSTOMERS WORKFORCE SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES

5 Smarter planet is about a continuing transformation enabled by some important technology and societal changes: + + = Instrumented We can measure, sense and see the condition of practically everything. Interconnected People, systems and objects can communicate and interact with each other in entirely new ways. Intelligent We can analyse and derive insight from larger and more diverse sources of information, to predict and respond better to change. instrumented

6 Building a smarter planet ater Challenge: Whether too much or not enough, the world eeds a smarter way to think about water A Global Innovation Outlook Report

7 The Challenge of a Smarter Planet and the Water Needs of its inhabitants do you know enough, at the scale of the problem? can you make sense of it? can you act on it? do you have the collaborative relationships you need with others? (data sharing & agreeing on actions)

8 Much of Water Management is Improving Information Flow & Use Today s decisions and policies will shape our water future The effectiveness of those decisions depends on the quality of information In addition to improved water data the United States should develop and expand forecasting and predictive models and systems to educate and influence water use behavior of individual[s], businesses and resource managers Source: NSTC, A Strategy For Federal Science And Technology To Support Water Availability And Quality In The United States, - Report Of The National Science And Technology Council Committee On Environment And Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water Availability and Quality, September 2007

9 The Collaboration Platform - Concept Data types (as examples) (from multiple sources and systems) Usage and Discharge Run-off Quantity/Flow Quality Environment/ Ecology Climate Economic Geology/ hydrology An integrated set of technologies, data and tools Business rules layer Visualization layer Applications layer Models layer Data handling layer Data content layer Network layer Security (Open) standards Stakeholders Retail Agencies Politicians Tourism Wine growing State EPA Federal agencies Collaborative uses Transmission System Management System Russian River Console Water Accounting System Energy data Sensing layer

10 On the Hudson River IBM is building an observatory network from source to sea Project objective: Turning all 315 miles of the Hudson river into a distributed network of sensors that will collect and analyze biological, physical, and chemical information continuously and in real-time Link hydrological models to understand phenomena across a range of spatial and temporal scales REON (River and Estuary Observatory Network) Center for Advanced Environmental Technology (40,000 ft 2 )

11 The Hudson River Visualising the unseen river

12 Improving water infrastructure The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority is modernizing the management of the aging water and sewer infrastructure of the city, using advanced analytics, asset management software, and geospatial mapping applications.

13 13 Smarter Water: SmartBay Portal, Galway Bay, Ireland Sea conditions Tourism information Ecosystem education Government policy Renewable energy Coastal safety Fisheries Coastal technology Fine scale weather Pollution monitoring Bringing together the people an data to better manage a large scale marine environment

14 New Private/Public Relationships (Industry/Government/Academia/NGO) Collaboration perpetual across organizational boundaries. Joint Research. Advocate and Lead Open Industry Standards Advocate and Lead an Information Agenda for Water Management Build on current structures to form new governance. E.g. FACA ACWI.gov, CUAHSI.org Innovation new models, new thinking. Need Whole Systems Thinking People, Process and Planet. Project by Project, City by City, Watershed by Watershed then connect those dots. New Technology Instrumented, Interconnected & Intelligent Grand Challenge Smart Grid for Water? National Reference Information Architecture for Water for Collaboration Platforms: Local, Regional, National.

15 A Smarter Planet Instrumented Interconnected Intelligent + + = An opportunity to think and act in new ways: economically, socially and technically. Thank You Jim Loving loving@us.ibm.com Ibm.com/green Ibm.com/gio Ibm.com/think