Manchester City has reached a significant sustainability milestone: City Football Academy, home to the Club’s 16 training pitches, now irrigates exclusively with rainwater. This innovation eliminates reliance on external water sources, conserves local water supplies, and reduces the Club’s environmental footprint. Since July 2023, Manchester City has saved an impressive 80 million liters of clean water, enough to fill over 32 Olympic-sized swimming pools or keep a stadium full of fans hydrated for an entire season. This has been made possible through investments in advanced rainwater harvesting and smart water…
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Major Digital Infrastructure Upgrade Strengthens Water Supply for 2.6 Million People Across 12,000-mile Network
Dutch drinking water utility Brabant Water, in partnership with Xylem (NYSE: XYL), is creating one of Europe’s largest digital water networks, serving 2.6 million residents and businesses across North Brabant. To meet rising demand, the utility is deploying a digital twin and smart metering solutions to build a more efficient, resilient water system. As urbanization, industrial growth, and changing weather patterns intensify pressure on water infrastructure, drinking water use in the Netherlands is projected to increase by 100 million cubic meters by 2030. To future-proof its operations, Brabant Water is digitalizing…
Read MoreManchester City Puts Smart Water Tech in Play on the Pitch
Manchester City Football Club is using data and analytics for more than performance on the pitch. A champion of water sustainability, the Club is taking its commitment to the next level – introducing digital solutions from its official water technology partner, Xylem, to help capture and reuse rainwater more efficiently. At City Football Academy, Xylem Vue – a digital water platform – uses connected sensors and smart meters to deliver live insights into how water moves across the training facility. Showing exactly when and where water is being used or…
Read MoreNew Research Shows How Leading Water Utilities Are Paving the Way to Net Zero
World leaders are gathering this week in Baku, Azerbaijan, to accelerate the decarbonization of the world economy at the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The water sector, which accounts for almost 2% of the world’s carbon emissions, is answering the call with ambitious strategies to deploy advanced technology to cut the sector’s carbon footprint. A recent survey of more than 100 utilities by water technology company Xylem showed that 75% of utilities have set greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals that they…
Read MoreUK Project to Reduce PFAS Pollution is Awarded Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Christopher Whitfeld and Wenqi (Jonathan) Zhao from the United Kingdom receive the prestigious Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2024 for their work on PFAS pollution in the Thames Basin. HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden presented the winners with their award during a ceremony at World Water Week in Stockholm. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution is a growing concern worldwide. Focusing on the Thames Basin in the United Kingdom, where there are with no equitable solutions to the problem, Whitfeld and Zhao developed a geospatial neural network, predicting PFAS values…
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