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Building an Action Plan for Smart Water Management
Digital Realty, a leading global provider of data centre, co-location and interconnection solutions, was on a mission to improve its water strategy, minimise overall water use, ensure reliable performance and protect its operations from water-related risk.
Digital Realty Wanted To:
- Understand how much water was being used, and where, in its data centres
- Increase water resiliency and redundancy to better respond to growing water quantity and quality issues
- Improve monitoring and measurement through digital tools
Partnering with Ecolab, they developed a three-step action plan:
STEP 1:
Prioritize at-risk facilities that required immediate action, using the Ecolab Smart Water Navigator IQ
RESULT:
The team developed a prioritized matrix that organised sites and helped them identify sites with the greatest operational water related risk.
STEP 2:
Evaluate water use practices at every site using the Ecolab Smart Water Navigator IQ
RESULT:
The tool helped the team focus on specific steps that local teams could take to improve water use and efficiency, tailored to each of their sites.
STEP 3:
Use Nalco Water’s 3D TRASAR™ Technology to provide water strategy effectiveness
RESULT:
Nalco Water’s 3D TRASAR™ dashboards provided enterprise-wide visibility, measurement and monitoring of water use, helping the team track, trend and compare water use across all data centres and quantify savings from water projects.
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With Ecolab Smart Water Navigator IQ and a plan for action, Digital Realty now has a more effective strategy to manage water at its data centres, a greater understanding of water in its organisation and the ability to improve and protect its operations, watersheds and communities.
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The Ecolab® Smart Water Navigator IQ™ is an AI‑powered, end‑to‑end water intelligence platform that unifies the world’s leading water‑risk frameworks to accelerate resilience, drive performance and unlock measurable impact. . Through its holistic approach and facility‑level guidance, the Smart Water Navigator IQ enables companies to translate ambitious water goals into real, measurable progress that turn water from a risk to manage into a strategic asset.
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