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There are personal decision-making tools, but there are also policy-making tools,” Lyons says. “The data in aggregate comes to the city, and now the city can begin using it to do due diligence on investment and policy decisions: how long will it take for new water technology to pay for itself through new revenue or savings? What is the opportunity to avoid investment in something like a parking ramp through the use of increased transit opportunities?”
The smart water metering pilot is already producing hard results: an overall 6.6 percent reduction in the utilization of water that was at least partially driven by an eight-fold increase in the number of households that each—by looking at data—identified and fixed a leak.