Abstract
Smart and integrated urban water systems have important roles in advancing smart cities, but their contributions go much further by supplying needed public services and connecting other sectors to meet sustainability goals. Achieving integration and gaining access to financing are obstacles to implementing smart water systems and both are implicit in the economic framework of smart cities. Problems in financing the start-up of smart water systems are reported often. The local and diverse nature of water systems is another barrier because an approach that works in one place may not work in another with different conditions. The paper identifies the challenges posed by the economic framework and provides examples from four cities with diverse characteristics. It outlines pathways to advance implementation of smart water systems by improving control strategies, advancing instrumentation and control technologies, and most of all, to help transform cities by raising customer awareness and trust through reliable and useful water information.
Highlights
Smart cities have many interrelated parts, and their water systems provide essential functions by supplying needed public services and connecting other sectors with water to aid them in meeting economic, social, and ecological goals
Integration among the separate urban water subsystems is a logical partner to smart systems
A smart urban water system would join the constellation of other smart systems in a smart city, which use computer controls and information to collect data, use that data to improve operations, and communicate with citizens about all aspects of their lives in the cities [12]
Summary
Smart cities have many interrelated parts, and their water systems provide essential functions by supplying needed public services and connecting other sectors with water to aid them in meeting economic, social, and ecological goals To play these roles effectively, urban water systems should be integrated and take on smart attributes [1]. Achieving integration and gaining access to adequate financing are principal obstacles to advancing the state of the art of smart urban water systems While they provide multiple types of services to diverse stakeholders and are vital to cities, they confront financial challenges caused by their multiplexed economic framework. While the case citations are brief, they range across the major issues along the United States (Fort Collins), and a large city in Mexico with a very limited water supply three lines of discussion, advancing technologies, new control methods, and customer in(Juarez). This paper aims to focus more directly on the economic forces that must be confronted by system managers to facilitate improved urban water services
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