Water

Climate variability changes demand, raises the risk of drought and flood, and can speed up asset deterioration. Asset plans need demand forecasts and resilience measures that test infrastructure against a range of future conditions, not just the historical average.

A water utility manages treatment plants, reservoirs, pump stations, water and sewer networks, valves, meters and the control systems that run them. Each asset class degrades differently, so each needs its own condition, risk and renewal approach within one asset management system.

Prioritise on condition and consequence, not age alone. Condition based renewal prioritisation, combined with programmes such as sewer relining and demand forecasting, lets a utility balance renewal cost against service levels and the risk of failure.

It should assess practice across the GFMAM Landscape subjects and ISO 55001:2024, and map findings to the expectations of your economic and service regulators. SAS-AM delivers IAM endorsed maturity assessments structured for the Australian water sector.

Water loss analytics compares supply, consumption and pressure data across network zones to pinpoint where water is being lost. That lets leak detection and pressure management focus on the zones with the highest losses rather than searching the whole network.

By combining pipe attributes and failure history with condition data, soil corrosivity and SCADA telemetry in a predictive model. The model ranks pipes by likelihood of failure so renewal and inspection go where bursts are most likely and most damaging.