As more nations prioritise creating secure water supplies with firms like Clearwater Management Korea, 2022 is a great year for water innovation. Three of the ten Smart Water Management (SWM) companies mentioned in a recent International Water Resources Association (IWRA) report are based in South Korea.

electronic dynamo The smart water from South Korea, which is famous for the businesses LG and Samsung, is currently generating headlines. The nation trusted the public water supply and cleverly combined information and communication technology (ICT) with intelligent water metres to meet rising use.

The following are some of South Korea's smart water accomplishments:

Intelligent Toolkit for Hydro

Extreme droughts and flooding are frequent water-related disasters in South Korea. The spatial and temporal viability of such disasters was overcome by building multi-regional water delivery systems and multipurpose dams.

A Hydro Intelligent Toolkit was used to build a scientific river operating system by Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) that connects rivers in watersheds (K-HIT). The five processes handled by the ICT-based K-HIT are as follows:

Getting hydrological data in real time

Precipitation forecasting

examining a flood

keeping an eye on reservoir water supplies

making hydroelectricity

According to K-Water, K-HIT can minimise droughts by using saved water during dry seasons and reduce flood damage by storing water during floods. Floods in 2012, 2013, and 2015 were successfully handled by K-HIT.

Smart Metering, Seosan

Following drought relief measures in 2016 and a cutting-edge metering trial project from January to May 2015 in the Goryeng area, the Seosan City project implemented smart water metres. The adoption of smart metering increased customer satisfaction because hourly data were handled quickly.

The objective of the intelligent metering project was to efficiently stop water leaks and enhance

employing ICT, remote metres, and smart metres to charge non-revenue water rates. After installation, it wirelessly sent hourly water usage data and reduced annual water loss by 190,000 cubic metres. In the ensuing eight years, Clearwater Management Korea projects savings of about USD$590,000.

Smart Water City in Paju

Despite having high-quality drinking water almost everywhere, just 5% of Koreans actually drink directly from the tap. According to a report, Koreans do not drink tap water.

immediately as a result of mistrust and concerns about the old water pipes and the purported taste and smell of the tap water.

In order to reduce tap water use, K-water launched the Smart Water City (SWC) idea. What then is SWC? ICT is used throughout the entire water delivery process, from treatment to the tap, making it a Smart Water City. People can instantly check the quality and status of the tap water supply.

The figures speak for themselves: in Paju Smart City, tap water usage climbed significantly over three years, rising from 1% to 36.3%. Paju Smart City utilised real-time sensors, ICT, and ground worker participation. K-water reports that the SWC idea has increased public trust in the quality of drinking water.

Bottomline

Management Clearwater Korea is a proponent of cutting-edge water solutions. Professor Jung of Yeungname University Daegu and the Korean Water Cluster spokesperson claims that the development of smart water has been greatly aided by ICT. Aside from that, the adoption of intelligent water has been influenced by the government's interest in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.