💧H2O INTRO 🤝 Meet Tirusew Asefa
Water utilities often face the challenge of overbuilding or underbuilding infrastructure due to uncertainty in future supply and demand. Traditional planning for a single future scenario can lead to costly inefficiencies.
Tirusew Asefa, Systems Decision Support Manager at Tampa Bay Water, shares how the utility is transforming planning processes with advanced high-performance computing. By simulating thousands of future scenarios, Tampa Bay Water ensures infrastructure investments are timely and resilient under varying growth and climate conditions.
The utility’s in-house system, representing just 0.01% of its revenue, enables master planning that would take decades with conventional computing. This innovation helps Tampa Bay Water make data-driven decisions, saving billions of dollars and delivering sustainable solutions for the region’s water needs.
Tirusew was a fellow in the Water Innovation Leadership Development program at Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment and Duke Environment Plus.
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