Successfully Protecting Your Investment in Drinking Water Infrastructure
Best Practices from Communities and Local Experts
When a system actively understands and manages its assets, the community can better prioritize and fund necessary investments to reduce long-term costs and risk. With a proper plan for asset management, a system can improve service and reliability, reduce risk and unexpected costs, and enhance communication with customers and stakeholders while realizing many additional benefits.
This document provides examples of common challenges, asset management solutions, and benefits associated with Reliability, Cost Efficiency, Communications. Local decision makers can use this document to gain an asset management perspective of their own water system and its assets. Doing so may help a local decision maker identify small or large ways that your system can benefit from asset management.