Ripple Effect Rewind! - Data Aggregation and Digital Twins

So maybe before we dive into kind of some of the specific projects that you guys are working on, you know, both of you mentioned info solutions and technological solutions for these water problems.

Can you kind of tell us just like, give us some concrete examples of like, when you say solutions, what are the kinds of things or products that Xylem is creating for its clients?

So both Caleb and I, we moved from that reservoir type management, water distribution, through the hydrologic sort of networks to what our core is, which is combined sewer system management.

And that can expand to storm sewers, purely sanitary sewers, and we're even branching into urban flooding and riverine flooding from some of our analytics.

If I had to pick out one solution, I would focus on the consent decree requirements that are Many of our Midwestern cities and also older cities in all parts of the country are required to complete.

So most of those require a long-term control plan for reducing raw sewage discharge to their local rivers.

And that becomes a very large and costly effort, not only to design, but to actually build over a series of 15 to 30 years.

So we develop ways to do that more effectively with data.

Ways to get a long-term compliance plan to meet the consent decrees for kind of these combined sewer storm systems, which we don't have a ton of here in the West.

But, you know, for those who are not familiar with the West, and correct me if I'm wrong, but, you know, essentially in storm events, if there's a sewer overflow, right? That's kind of what the issue is kind of in a nutshell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Dry weather flow rolls along and then the sewer comes in and just flushes it out to the room.

And you work on data solutions, which is what I kind of want to get into today.

So Caleb, did you have any kind of other thoughts on?

Yeah, I just wanted to add that while we deal with collection systems, so sanitary and storm systems, the strategies and technologies we use encompass many water domains.

And so the discussion we have here, it translates to a lot of other water domains and not just those two

areas.

For sure.

That's a great point because data, really data is just data, right? So data doesn't really matter.

I like that too, because that is true.

Data is data.

So you guys are presently in the combined sewer, stormwater, wastewater treatment side, but your skills are applicable and your tools are applicable to many different forms of water management and water distribution.

Exactly.

Yeah.