Global Leakage Summit 2022 will be held on 5-6 July 2022 at Live in London and Online.

Globally, acknowledgement of the environment’s importance is becoming much greater – and sustaining water supplies and reducing leakage is very much a part of environmental improvement. 

Following the global shutdown of live events in 2020 and most of 2021, the Global Leakage Summit returns to London as a LIVE and ONLINE event in July 2022.  Now in its 12th year, the 2022 Summit will, as always, focus on latest advances in technology and software for data analysis, featuring the most innovative and successful examples of delivering and maintaining reduced leakage levels across the world.

LEAKAGE AND THE WIDER ENVIRONMENT

A TWIN-TRACK APPROACH by UK regulators (RAPID) to implement investment in infrastructure. The reduction of leakage and carbon in water industry operations is inextricably linked with resource management and environmental protection.  Together with investment in infrastructure, a ‘twin track’ approach on water resources and demand management, and collaboration between regulators, will help to reduce leakage and meet carbon reduction goals

The UK water industry is the first industrial sector in the UK, and one of the first major sectors in the world, to commit to a carbon zero future by 2030. The goal forms part of the industry’s Public Interest Commitment (PIC), with the carbon zero goal one of five stretching social and environmental ambitions.  Can hydrogen be used as an alternative fuel for carrying out network operations contribute to the net zero carbon goal?

BACKGROUND LEAKAGE

If water companies are to get anywhere near to achieving zero leakage, they have to solve this perennial issue - ‘lifting the veil from background leakage’.

• How understanding the finer points of background leakage can help achieve targets
• How, with state of the art monitoring software to identify and quantify it, this is fast becoming a reality

INSTALLING AND MAINTAINING SMART NETWORKS OF THE FUTURE

The design and installation of new water mains is critical for avoiding future leaks. Installation - and managing the quality of installation - is one of the 'prevention' planks of 'PALM' (prevent, be aware, locate and mend). But are the industry standards being followed, and are state of the aret pipe installation and repair strategies lacking in this age of smart networks?

ENABLING A WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE

Smart networks are getting smarter - and operator skills are changing - to meet smarter and faster technologies and software for data collection, data communication and data analysis – but can we continue to expand the potential – and are we maintaining the benefits achieved?

Incubating new ways of working through embedding innovation alongside operational teams, aiming to speed up the innovation process, 'enable a workforce of the future' and to build the water company of the future today.