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Retail water businesses bear the brunt of public and regulatory pressure to improve demand management, maintain service levels and reduce costs. In many Western countries network and household leakage, exacerbated by poor infrastructure condition, compromise demand management strategies and dominate the operational landscape. Increasing levels and sophistication of monitoring and metering systems, including the emergence of smart water metering at an individual customer level, are providing the quantitative data needed to improve real time network management, and capital and operational efficiency. In many cases, the business response to these increased levels of sophistication is lagging.

Marchment Hill Consulting is at the forefront of thinking on the application of smart grids and smart metering to the water sector. Our recent work on the quantitative and qualitative costs and benefits of smart water metering, covering a number of Australian water corporations, means we are uniquely positioned to bring insightful and original thought to water retailers on the impacts to metering, customer services, systems and asset management.

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