
Location data saving the industry millions
“Location” is crucial information for the water industry to not only enable the visualisation of assets and infrastructure, but also to report on water main breaks, customer complaints, asset condition, work orders, field operations, new property developments, and other customer service areas.
For example, in NSW $16 million in annual cost savings were directly attributed to the use of geospatial information water utilities. These estimates were based on net productivity impacts of 3% of labour costs (source: Economic Value of Spatial Information in NSW, CRC for Spatial Information/ACIL Allen, 2017). Additionally, this study found that the use and application of geospatial information in asset management across all sectors in NSW delivered net annual benefits of $43 million, increasing to $59 million by 2022.

Achieving better organisational outcomes
Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are widely used by the water industry for decision making and planning, including effective operations, asset management, and reporting. Geospatial technologies are advancing at a seemingly ever-increasing rate. The water industry continues to be challenged as to how to best utilise these technologies.
Faced with continuing significant change in spatial and related technologies and evolving business needs, the following report shows how organisations may benefit from more regularly producing a strategic geospatial roadmap to plan how these dynamics are both accommodated and used to achieve better organisational outcomes.
2018-2019 Water Industry GIS Capabilities Survey Results
What’s included:
- Brands of GIS corporate solutions
- Costs of deployment and support
- Levels of systems integration
- Business drivers
- Data management challenges
- Comparisons to the 2009 survey conducted by Spatial Vision
To learn more, download our 2018-2019 Water Industry GIS Capabilities Survey Results report below.
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