How Smart Metering Can Solve the Water Crisis

The saying goes, "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." Knowing this, and knowing that we have a water crisis on our hands, why do we not have a structure in place for monitoring our water consumption?

We're ticking along at developing tools and infrastructure for smart electricity management - being able to see our consumption and pricing for electricity in real time so that we can minimize how much energy we use over all, and how much we consume during peak times. Those very same tools can, and are, being fitted to our water infrastructure. It's called the smart water grid, and more companies are recognizing not only the market opportunity but also the global imperative for adopting new technologies to monitor and conserve water.