| | MAY - 20188IN MY OPINIONLeveraging Asset Management Best Practices for a World-Class Water UtilityThe Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) is a 100 year old public water utility that has never seen a drinking water violation in its long, storied history. As CIO, I face daily technical challenges across many areas, to help keep that legacy intact. One of the most pressing challenges is modernizing our automated approach for tracking linear and vertical assets that support a water delivery system which covers almost 1,000 square miles.Maintaining our assets and infrastructure is an ongoing task, so it is imperative that our utility services team always has real-time access to critical information on the condition and performance of capital assets which also supports the timing of necessary investments by providing us with the latest information our teams need to develop plans to maintain, repair, and replace assets.Asset management is defined as the practice of managing infrastructure capital assets to minimize the total cost of owning and operating these assets, Vennard Wright, Chief Information Officer, Washington Suburban Sanitary CommissionBy | | MAY - 20188
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