Interconnections between water systems as an incentive for asset management

摘要

Interconnections are an increasingly popular water management strategy that allows water to be redistributed between neighbouring water systems, which builds up redundancy in the water system. Interconnection projects are expensive and their avocation presents an asset management opportunity. Not only do they comprise a large part of a utility's risk management plan, but they also create an incentive to perform more accurate asset mapping. Here, Stacey Isaac Berahzer, Shadi Eskaf, Lauren Patterson and Jeff Hughes discuss a method for developing an asset management database for community water systems (CWS) and interconnections for North Carolina.