Solutions were sought to cost-effectively implement water metering solutions to improve the assessment and management of water resources on Department of Defense installations. Current water metering practices typically focus on large water-using facilities/operations where utility savings can cover the cost of installing and maintaining the meters. However, this approach does not provide sufficient data to create an installation-wide understanding of how water is being used or to determine the water requirements to sustain installation operations and specific mission sets. As water resources are becoming increasingly stressed in parts of the U.S. and around the world, understanding water requirements and improving water management is critical for mitigating water-related risk to installation operations and improving water resilience.

ESTCP sought proposals for demonstrations of technologies or analytical approaches that included some or all the following capabilities:

• Identify water quantity, quality and availability required to support installation and mission needs.
• Approach for cost-effective and efficient metering to improved water management and inform infrastructure and resource investments and risk analyses.
• Efficient integration of data sources to inform water resilience planning over various time-horizons.

Solutions should consider complexities associated with control systems cybersecurity and handling of controlled unclassified information.

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