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Could smart meters stem $14bn in annual water losses?
Posted by BusinessGreen: Heather Clancy on August 16th, 2013
BusinessGreen: Debates about most smart meter installations have centered on projects at electric utilities.
But intelligent networks and sensor technology could have an even more profound positive impact on ageing water infrastructure around the world, according to several experts participating in a Navigant Research seminar this week.
Those benefits include operational cost reductions ranging from three per cent to five per cent, more accurate billing processes, enhanced leak detection, better customer...
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Facebook lifts the lid on its water, energy use
Posted by BusinessGreen: Heather Clancy on April 23rd, 2013
BusinessGreen: Two years ago, Facebook created the Open Compute Project to rewrite the rules for data centre efficiency, by using approaches that could be shared with other organisations.
This week, it started publishing the results of that work in the form of two public dashboards that track near real-time energy and water usage at its locations in Prineville, Oregon, and Forest City, North Carolina.
Its progress so far is notable. Facebook estimates that the "vanity-free servers" and best practices embraced...