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Water Demand Management
Managing a key resource using advanced water asset management
04/08/2010
This paper is based on interviews with New Zealand water suppliers on pipe renewals and replacements decision processes. The research suggests that many of the larger water suppliers believe they have management practices in hand and that the smaller water suppliers have budgets too small to contemplate proactive replacements. In the middle are water suppliers that want more integrated, interactive asset management systems,great er certainty around remaining pipe life, and a better understanding of the effect of maintenance and replacements on network-level performance. These water suppliers also indicate they would welcome more guidance from the industry.