The New York-based IBM explained how technology can be used intelligently in order to improve the environmental issues of defective use of natural resources: water, land and energy. For instance, Corpus Christi, a 280,000 population city in Texas, adopted a witty system of collecting data and analyzing it.

The project has also been implemented in London, Sydney, Stockholm and Amsterdam – helping the authorities to better manage the waste and the usage rate of land. For the case of Corpus Christi – the IBM software deals with data collected, shared and analyzed from local water plants and reservoirs.

From IBM, Guruduth Banavar – chief technology officer of global public sector efforts stated that:

“Look at the way the planet is evolving in terms of demographics and environmental considerations. It is pretty easy to see that we need to do some things dramatically differently. There is a lot of information available to us through technology that is not being put to use very well.”

The stretch of IBM’s project is about 1,250 miles long and 170 million gallons of water; it includes wastewater treatment plants and reservoirs which supply the population of the urban area – 280,000 inhabitants.

The statistics indicate the fact that 1.4% of the issues are dues to water pipe bursts of damages and the unified IBM management software deals is decreasing the number of inconveniences and expenses by scheduling intelligent fixings, based on historical data.  Banavar also commented that “You can improve efficiencies maybe two-fold. When problems persist, you can dig deeper to find out underlying causes and apply predictive maintenance.”

Corpus Christi is also employing an intelligent informatics system for the collection of wastes too. This is functioning with the help of filling rate sensors, which are consulted and which indicate the immediacy of a collection. The friendly usage of technology is not only pushing IBM software further in local administration, but it is also coping with the tight budgets of the specialised companies and local authorities.