March 30, 2012
"Smart water has as much to do with advancements in telecom and computers and microchips as it does with water science, biology, and physics."

— Quote found in an online Forbes article titled:  “Venture Capitalist Reveals Growth Areas for Water Investments”

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March 30, 2012
"These early-stage companies view wastewater not as waste but as a resource to be economically mined for value such as upgraded water, energy, or products."

— Quote by Steven Kloos, Partner at True North Venture Partners and Imagine H2O judge.  Quote found in an online San Francisco Chronicle titled “Imagine H2O Names Winners of 2012 Water Innovation Prize”

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Filed under: wastewater sater-management water smarter-cities ImagineH20 
September 20, 2011
"The 21st Century presents unprecedented challenges to the long-term viability of the world’s great river systems, and the management decisions we make today about dams, agricultural development and freshwater conservation will affect the livelihoods of millions of people for years to come. It’s not a crystal ball, but the IBM application will help local communities envision alternative futures."

— Quote by Michael Reuter, executive director of The Nature Conservancy’s Great Rivers Partnership.   Quote found at The Nature Conservancy and IBM Launch Program for Sustaining Watersheds

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June 7, 2011
"89,090 gallons were saved among 151 households over nine weeks, and if extrapolated to a full year, this would be a savings of 514,742 gallons in total, or 3,409 gallons per household annually."

— Results from a pilot conducted in the city of Dubuque, Iowa.  Quote found at “Dubuque, Iowa and IBM Combine Analytics, Cloud Computing and Community Engagement to Conserve Water”

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May 11, 2011
"Smart water management is all about applying monitoring and management technologies to help reduce the use of water, as well as related energy and chemicals. Managing water resources would include monitoring rivers, water reservoirs and pipes. Increasingly, utilities are transitioning to digital smart grids that collect data from networks of sensors and use advanced analytics to glean insight from that data."

— Quote by Dr Cameron Brooks, Director, Smarter Water Management, IBM Big Green Innovations in an interview published by InformationWeek titled ‘Smart water grids can help in overcoming water availability and quality issues’

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April 8, 2011
"Today, one in five people lack access to safe drinking water, and some municipalities lose an alarming amount of precious water—up to 50%—through leaky infrastructure. In addition to that, human demand for water is expected to increase six-fold in the next 50 years. In fact, in just the last 100 years, global water usage has increased at twice the rate of population growth."

— Quote comes from an article by Dr. Cameron Brooks, Director, Smarter Water Management, IBM Big Green Innovations in an article posted on the online site H20 Middle East.  The article is titled “Towards smarter water management | H2O Middle East”

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March 25, 2011
"EcoRescue: Rivers Game. As an EcoRescue: Rivers elite volunteer, you’ll visit more than 20 river rescue sites across the world as you save species large and small while providing for humanity’s future—all by cleaning up the environment. Your journey spans bays, cliffs, rivers, cities, and jungles."

— Quote from the National Geographic / RBC Blue Water Project game site.  Go check out the game at RBC Blue Water Project

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March 14, 2011
"Having geographic intelligence allows us to not only have a real-time view of our entire operation to optimize our teams and improve the efficiency of our work but also to drill into the significant details on history of that equipment, and the relationship to the overall community. This is especially critical a time when we are faced with aging infrastructure and the challenges associated with a struggling economy."

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Quote by Nancy Gallinaro, Chief Operating Officer, Cape Fear Public Utility Authority.  Quote found at  “Cities Get Smarter with IBM’s Location-based Analytics”

Cape Fear

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February 23, 2011
"Over the last century, global water usage has increased at twice the rate of population growth, impacting society across the board from public health to economics to energy consumption. Obviously, this supply and demand ratio isn’t sustainable, and big changes in the way we manage this precious resource are an imperative. Collaboration among companies, municipal and government leaders, water managers and citizens will be essential as we continue to look for new ways to innovate in the water management industry."

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Quote by Jenny Hunter found in the blog post What can Watson do for water management? at A Smarter Planet Blog

Smarter Water

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November 11, 2010
"Brabeck-Letmathe warned that the water crisis is intricately linked to the availability of food. When water is in shorter supply, fewer crops are produced and food prices jump, he said. A threefold increase in the price of food for those who spend between 50 and 80 percent of their disposable income on it, he cautioned, would mean “a real disaster."

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Quote found online at the Harvard Gazette article “The looming water shortage”.  The author was reporting on a lecture recently given by Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).  The lecture was titled “Global Water & Food Security: A New Role for the Private Sector.”

Picture by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer. Caption under original photo People were saying, If we dont do anything now, in 100 years the world will not exist, said Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe of his initial exposure to rising fears about global water consumption and impending shortages. The more I looked into the water issue, I came to the conclusion that you dont have to wait 100 years.

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