The Water Compliance Gap

Water compliance programs across North America—spanning backflow prevention, industrial pretreatment, stormwater, and grease management—are essential for public health, yet most continue to run on paper forms and disconnected spreadsheets. Industry research reveals that compliance professionals spend between 50 and 70 percent of their working hours on manual administrative tasks like data entry, envelope stuffing, and letter writing. Furthermore, 80 percent of compliance breakdowns stem from fragmented communication rather than active non-compliance. Regulated businesses often fail to comply simply because notices are unclear or lost in administrative channels.

Modernizing compliance operations requires shifting from static recordkeeping databases to active systems that automate workflow triggers, track communications, and surface actionable exceptions. Unifying multi-program oversight under a single operational platform eliminates administrative silos and provides executives with cross-program visibility. Read the complete report to explore industry trends and strategies for modernizing compliance operations.