Water Term of the Week - Flexible Water Management

From the current issue of ENR - by Jeff Gunderson, Water Stressors Driving Projects Around the Globe.  Water engineering and management is increasingly about dealing with extremes - - the yin and yang of mother nature.

"Lesile Shoemaker, Tetra Tech's executive vice president of water, environment and infrastructure, says smart and integrated water-management approaches that combine new and emerging technologies to better monitor, track and optimize systems are an emerging driver in developed markets.  Along these same lines, Shoemarker sees increasing interest in the development of flexible water and wastewater management systems that can function efficiently in long cyclical droughts but quickly adapt to extreme wet conditions, when flooding risks are elevated.  "Flexible water management goes right back to the idea of using real-time control and water water technology.""