Have you ever envisioned a time when experts from different disciplines come together with the hope of eradicating emerging global climate risks? What if cities also played a key role in the process? What if I told you that there is a new book encompassing all this, and more?
We need to look at cities as complex organisms composed of interdependent systems — i.e. economies, cultures, biodiversity and infrastructure from public transportation to sewage systems — in constant change.
The fact that we are becoming an “urban planet” generates uncertainty among scientists and governments, as cities have generally become unsustainable models. The large extensions of cities concentrate the needs for water, alter the hydrological balance of the territory they occupy, generate large quantities of wastewater, damage the water table they are located on and favour violent runoffs that cause floods. Large cities also take up between 60% and 80% of the energy resources, emit 70% of the greenhouse gases and generate harmful microclimates due to the overheating of asphalt, bricks, concrete and metals, and the heat generated by cars and air conditioning units.
These problems are much more difficult to address in the capitals of developing countries, which show dangerous growth forecasts and lack infrastructures to follow this uncontrolled expansion pace. The unhealthy slums of these cities, with no water supply or sanitation, have become an unworthy icon of today’s social imbalance and injustice. The number of people living in these degraded neighbourhoods is estimated at 828 million and is expected to increase by six million every year.
The big question here is, how do our energy generation forecasting and embedded systems come into the picture? Here’s how.
Arnowa’s smart Water solution helps make your operations and infrastructure more reliable and efficient. It integrates and analyzes a wide variety of data sources and provides both an intuitive way of visualizing and understanding patterns and anomalies, and an easy way of acting on them. The result is a view of water or wastewater operations that transcends individual systems, devices and departments. This end-to-end view gives you the key information you need to make better decisions that help lower costs and risk while increasing or recapturing revenue and enhancing customer satisfaction.
Arnowa’s smart Water solution helps water and wastewater operators by:
- Leveraging operational data holistically to create insights and improve water management.
- Anticipating potential delivery disruption and better forecast long-term water demand.
- Coordinating resources to protect the water supply and drive conservation and sustainability.
It all might sound a little far-fetched, but it is here now.
There is a need to try to bring together different knowledge holders and see also if we can develop a method where we can generate more integrated knowledge about the complexity of urbanization. We’re ready to work towards these changes, with you on our side. Step into the urban sustainable future and partner with us today, and be a part of the change that you will tell stories about to your future generations here. If you have any queries, reach out to us at contact@arnowa.com or simply leave a comment. Thanks!
