Jez Downs

Southern Water

Biography:

Jez has 20 years experience in the water industry, initially 13 years in consultancy and the last 7 working for Southern Water. His expertise is primarily in the field of clean water hydraulic modelling and he has lead teams within Southern Water in Asset Management, Operations and now in Compliance & Asset Resilience where the current focus is on developing zonal plans to maintain a resilient water supply to customers.

Short description about presentation:

Southern Water have installed 12 Intellitect Intellisondes, and 50 novel ATi MetriNets in a cluster of strategic locations and smaller downstream areas of the water distribution network, at Rownhams in Hampshire. This is feeding data directly into an innovative analytics platform providing the Water Company an holistic and real time view of numerous water quality performance parameters across 24 District Meter Areas.

The complementary use of both types of data collection systems, feeding into the online analytics platform has not yet been deployed on this scale by any other UK Water Company. The 12 month trial aims to support the development of real time monitoring of key water quality parameters in the distribution system. This information will provide additional resilience in the SWS water quality monitoring regime. This project is Southern Water's first step towards the establishment of a self-managing smart water network and will inform strategic implementation throughout the next AMP and beyond.