The Water Smart portal best met the needs of the City. The WaterSmart portal includes a real time tab that alerts customer of possible water leaks.
Cory Johnson of Bloomberg Advantage interviews WaterSmart CEO Robin Gilthorpe and investor Steve Westly.
Technological advances are playing a significant role in many aspects of water management. For example, software like WaterSmart allows customers to better understand their water use habits and potentially revise them.
Startups like WaterSmart Software work with utilities to analyze smart meter data and communicate personalized recommendations to customers about how they can improve water-use efficiency and save money.
WaterSmart is one of a small band of IT companies that hope to improve a water utility’s performance by strengthening its brain. WaterSmart pairs data collected by water utilities with weather forecasts and information on family size and lot size to provide tailored reports on water use by household.
Building up local or regional sources of water would also help reduce the amount of energy required to ship water long distances, said Dominique Gomez, representing WaterSmart, a San Francisco-based company that aims to improve global water-use efficiency.
“California’s continuing growth puts enormous pressure on our natural resources, and that demands that we become more water and energy efficient,” said Robin Gilthorpe, CEO WaterSmart Software.
“We are all praying for rain, but fundamentally this is not a drought problem,” said Robin Gilthorpe, CEO of WaterSmart. “It is a growth problem.”
This is the Wharton GE water innovation technology edition of Green Is Good here in beautiful downtown San Francisco. and we are so honored to have with us today Robin Gilthorpe.
The city of San Jose has partnered with WaterSmart Software to allow customers to log in through the company’s mobile app or online customer portal with information on their water usage.