Article: Water Quality Management Using Cloud Computing - Solution For Corporate Control Of Environmental Impact Data

By Neno Duplan, President/CEO, and Gregory Buckle, Director Data Management Services, Locus Technologies

The key to properly managing water lies in managing water quality, because the current worldwide water crisis involves not only overall scarcity of usable water but also widespread water pollution. This situation has created — on an almost incomprehensible scale — technical, ecological, social, economic, and legal problems for both individual polluting companies and the country as a whole. Various government organizations have put the list of sites impacted by industrial pollution in the hundreds of thousands nationwide.

One of industry's most vexing impediments in responding to environmental problems has been difficulties in properly centralizing and managing captured water quality data — the individual facts, statistics, and items of information that represent the results of testing and analyses. A different approach from the heretofore standard (and now outdated) "consultant-centric," spreadsheet-based environmental information management system — with its typical project delays and increased costs — is now essential.

This answer: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing.