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Smart Water-Smart Cities: A Cleantech Event - Thursday, December 1, 5:30 - 8:30 PM
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Smart Water-Smart Cities: A Cleantech Event
Thursday, December 1, 5:30 - 8:30 PM
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
63 Franklin Street 3rd Floor
Boston , MA 02110
Can Smart Water Technologies Quench the Thirst of our Modern Cities?
“If water is the essential ingredient of life, then water supply is the essential ingredient of civilization” David Sedlak, Water 4.0
It is estimated that it will cost the US $384 billion to upgrade the US water infrastructure! And this number is likely to increase given the stressors from increasing population, climate change and water pollution. As a result, many cities are looking to new technologies to help them address the need for, and to efficiently produce fresh, clean water for its residents.
Cities face many pressing issues regarding their water infrastructure.
-Identifying the location of the underground pipes and mapping them (these were laid so long ago cities do not know where they are!)
-Instrumenting the pipes so they and the water they carry (and leak) can be tracked and analyzed.
-Upgrading the aging infrastructure: ‘U.S. water infrastructure breaks once each minute – about 540,000 times per year!
-Optimizing energy and water use. Cities spend a considerable amount of money on the energy required to power the systems and pumps that make up our water infrastructure – some spend up to 30% of their energy costs just on providing water to the residents.
Advances in sensor technologies, data analytics and strategic collaborative planning will help cities to supply to the needed amount of revenue producing clean water at reasonable rates.
Join this MIT water event to learn:
Why have these issues not been solved before?
How can 3-D technologies, big data and IoT help cities optimize their energy and water use?
What are the greatest challenges to making ‘Smart Water—Smart Cities’ a reality?
How can we as entrepreneurs and as a part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem help cities with these complex and sometimes impenetrable issues?
SPEAKERS
Moderator:
Galen Nelson, Director of Innovation, MassCEC
Panelists:
Ruthbea Yesner Clarke, Smart City Strategies, IDC
David Reckhow, UMass Amherst; Water Innovation Network for Sustainable Small Systems (WINSSS)
Marcus Quigley, Founder and CEO, Opti RC
To register: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/smart-water-smart-cities-cleantech-event/
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