04.17.25 -- Every Drop Counts: Confronting Water Scarcity

Read this interview with Krishna H. Prashanth, Global Product Line Manager, Electromagnetic Flowmeters, to discover the evolution of electromagnetic flowmeters and their advancement in a more automated industrial environment. 

Discover how digitalization technologies, including data analytics and asset management, can offer smart, sustainable solutions to our planet's wastewater treatment challenges — and help combat the problems of global water scarcity.

ABB in the UK saw a 50 percent increase in the sales of its Aztec 600 water quality analyzers in 2023 compared to the previous year, as British water utilities worked to ensure more sustainable management of potable and wastewater supplies, as well as compliance with water quality and environmental regulations.

The world is confronting an imminent water crisis, with the UN projecting a 40% global water deficit by 2030. With water resources stretched by the needs of an increasing global population, the need for transformative technologies across the water industry has never been more urgent.

The Circular Water Economy is built on the so-called six Rs: "Reduce," "Reuse," "Recycle," "Reclaim," "Recover," and “Restore." The six elements represent different strategies aimed at sustainable water management and conservation.  

From the largest metropolitan water treatment plant (WTP) or wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operations to the smallest rural systems, the goals are essentially the same — achieve regulatory compliance and the most efficient results at the lowest practical cost. Here are several high-level guidelines to achieving a common strategy that works across virtually all applications: good data, properly analyzed, yields good results.

In an era of increased scrutiny for delivering efficient and sustainable industrial practices, the maxim “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” is well known to anyone, particularly those whose daily role revolves around monitoring and improving water quality.

Discover why Watercare, New Zealand's largest water and wastewater utility company, engaged ABB and Water Engineers Limited to install and commission ABB Aztec AFM631 Fluoride Analyzers in their Auckland water treatment plants.