Evolution of Water supply system! Smart Water Management for customer - Smart Water City Pilot Project -

Abstract

Korea's modern waterworks began with construction of DDukdo treatment plant in 1908 and has been growing rapidly along with the country's economic development. As a result, supply rates have reached 98.5% based on 2013. Despite multilateral efforts for high-quality supply, such as introduction of advanced treatment process, expansion of waterworks infrastructure and so on, distrust for drinking tap has been continuing and domestic consumption rate of tap is in around 5% level and extremely poor comparing to advanced countries such as the United States(56%), Japan(52%), etc. Recently, the has been facing the new phase due to environmental degradation caused by climate change, aging facilities, etc. Therefore, K-water has converted paradigm from the clean and safe water to the healthy water and been pushing the Smart Water City(SWC) Pilot Project in order to develop and spread new supply models for consumers to believe and drink tap through systematic quality and quantity combining ICT in the whole supply process. The SWC pilot projects in Pa-ju city and Go-ryeong county were an opportunity to check the likelihood of the management as the answer to future management. It is needed to examine the necessity of smart introduction and nationwide SWC expansion in order to improve welfare for people and resolve domestic & foreign problems.