GIS is a powerful tool in helping you manage the flow of water and wastewater to service homes and businesses. You can also use GIS technology to track the location and condition of water mains, valves, hydrants, meters, storage facilities, sewer mains, and manholes. This same technology makes keeping up point source discharge compliance, TV inspection data, and condition ratings easier.

A majority of water/wastewater utilities use GIS technology to integrate all kinds of information and applications with a geographic component into one, manageable system. GIS allows you to organize, manage, and distribute geographic information culled from various databases while maintaining data integrity and focusing on project direction.

GIS by ESRI

ESRI, the world leader in GIS software, has developed fundamental AM/FM/GIS technology for utilities that can be used successfully to automate and integrate your organization's information processing. You can reduce operating costs, eliminate data redundancy, increase data integration and efficiency, automate analysis processes, and access the information in your facilities management system.

Infrastructure Management and Construction
GIS aids in tracking projects, permits, construction work order management, inspections, and as-builts.

Finance and Administration
GIS can be used for tasks such as rate justification, capital improvement project tracking, and customer information service.

Operations and Maintenance
GIS can be used to closely model utility networks and integrate related types of data such as raster images and CAD drawings.

Planning and Engineering
GIS gives you an intelligent database that integrates job planning, equipment inventory, and flow analysis into one system.