There is now a way to transform complex water loss data into clear financial justification for infrastructure investments, helping municipalities secure budgets, grants and stakeholder buy-in by showing savings in water treatment, operations and emergency repairs.
Oldcastle Infrastructure recently introduced its CivilSense ROI Calculator, a digital tool designed to help municipalities and utilities make informed, data-driven decisions for water infrastructure projects. The platform assists municipal water management planning decisions by making invisible losses visible and translating system data into tangible financial scenarios.
“Addressing our nation’s aging water infrastructure requires not just innovative products, but also smarter, more transparent planning tools,” says Peter Delgado, business development manager at Oldcastle Infrastructure. “The ROI Calculator is a direct response to this need.”
Supporting the comprehensive CivilSense platform, the ROI Calculator addresses critical challenges in water management by quantifying the likely impacts of aging infrastructure. Its features allow users to calculate the significant costs associated with nonrevenue water losses, project probable leak frequencies and economic consequences of water main breaks based on system characteristics and model the long-term value of infrastructure investments. This functionality provides a valuable overview of the financial impact, strengthening the business case for necessary upgrades to aging water infrastructure and new projects.
Designed with a user-friendly interface, the platform is accessible to professionals with varying levels of technical expertise. By inputting project-specific data, community leaders can quickly generate detailed reports that demonstrate how improved water asset management can put dollars back into their budgets.
Water main break estimations are one of the calculator’s most valuable functions. Using realworld data gathered from CivilSense projects carried out across the country, the tool calculates probable break frequencies and the likely direct and indirect costs associated with them. This capability helps water asset managers begin to quantify the risks inherent in their network and determine how urgently they need to conduct a more targeted analysis to detect and locate leaks.
“By clearly demonstrating the long-term financial benefits of sustainable and resilient water systems, we are empowering our partners to build stronger, more reliable communities for the future,” says Delgado.
The CivilSense asset-management solution delivers predictive and real-time AI leak detection with 93% accuracy, according to Oldcastle.
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