WaterSmart® Wins SXSW Eco Award
WaterSmart wins First Place in the Cleanweb Category
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — WaterSmart Software, a customer engagement solutions company that helps water utilities and their customers conserve water, edged out four other finalists to win the SXSW Eco Award in the Cleanweb category this week.
The SXSW Eco Awards recognize leaders in the fields of energy, design, technology, and sustainability. The announcement comes on the heels of WaterSmart’s recent news that it raised a $4.5M Series A and won the City of Sacramento as its first major metro customer.
“We are extremely grateful to SXSW Eco for recognizing the vast impact WaterSmart’s customer engagement platform has on decreasing water use while increasing customer satisfaction,” said Peter Yolles, Founder and CEO of WaterSmart. “With recent investment, awards and customer wins across the country, 2013 is shaping up to be a great year for WaterSmart.”
WaterSmart’s customer engagement platform reinvents the way water utilities interact with their customers. The platform elegantly compares customers’ water usage with that of their neighbors while delivering personalized conservation recommendations that ultimately save them money on their water bills.
WaterSmart technology has been field proven to be effective. Both the City of Cotati and East Bay Municipal Utility District experienced 5% demand reductions in just six and twelve months respectively after using WaterSmart. WaterSmart’s research has also shown their product vastly improves overall customer satisfaction by up to 62% by making water use personally relevant and accessible.
WaterSmart Software provides intelligence beyond the meter to make the lives of water utility managers easier. Water providers using WaterSmart’s cloud-based, customer self-service and engagement platform have been proven to reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction by more than 25%. WaterSmart is a winner of the globally coveted World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Award for their potential to “significantly impact business and society through the design, development and implementation of new technologies and innovation.” Come help us change the way the world uses water.
Ali Barsamian, WaterSmart Software – (415-366-8622 x 819): abarsamian@watersmart.com