SWAN The Smart Water Networks Forum

SWAN - The Smart Water Networks Forum is the leading global community for the smart water sector, accelerating the awareness and adoption of data-driven technologies in water and wastewater networks worldwide. A non-profit organisation, SWAN brings together key players in the water sector to collaborate and share knowledge while offering access to cutting-edge research, global networking opportunities, and the ability to proactively influence the future of the water industry.

Smart Water Network solutions improve the efficiency, longevity, and reliability of the underlying physical water network by better measuring, collecting, analysing, and acting upon a wide range of network events. This can take shape in different phases of the utility process, such as real-time monitoring and automation, operational readiness, or network planning. The availability of cheap, easy-to-use data technologies, as well as external pressures on the water industry, means that water networks will see much greater sensor and controller density, and inevitably a more central role for all the data systems built on top of them.

The Smart Water Network concept should have a significant contribution in the efforts towards affordable, sustainable and pure water for all.