Water District in California to deploy Sensus technologies to promote water conservation

Olivenhain Municipal Water District (OMWD) in California, US will be deploying technology solution from Sensus to help its customers in saving water.

The water district in the drought affected US state intends to use Sensus smart water network for managing its infrastructure.

OMWD has already completed an 8,000m pilot study for the technology usage that can help with water conservation.

Equipped with FlexNet communication system and OMNI commercial metres, the technology solution will enable the OMWD customers to monitor water usage and leaks.

This is expected to help the utility in meeting the state-mandated 32% water usage reduction target.

OMWD customer service manager Joey Randall said: "With the Sensus smart water technology, we are able to provide customers with water consumption data in a more granular manner, down to the hour, which can be very helpful in terms of identifying high-usage activities and leaks.

"In portions of our district, we can click on a button and receive readings, failure notices, leak detection warnings and notifications of heavy water usage.

"The reliability of the communications system and accuracy of the metres goes a long way to support our water use efficiency program."

Earlier this month, Sensus had announced about its collaborative initiative with BAI Group for implementing its FlexNet system across Australian utilities. Besides improving operations of the utilities, the water and energy saving communication technology solution is expected to help them in managing maintenance issues before they escalate, and meet changing market and customer expectations.

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Image: Nasa Grace satellite data showing severity of California’s drought on water resources and trend in water storage between September 2011 and September 2014. Photo: courtesy of Nasa.