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Building an Action Plan for Smart Water Management

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Background

Digital Realty, a leading global provider of data center, co-location and interconnection solutions, was on a mission to improve its water strategy, minimize overall water use, ensure reliable performance and protect its operations from water-related risk.

Digital Realty wanted to:

  • Understand how much water was being used, and where, in its data centers
  • Increase water resiliency and redundancy to better respond to growing water quantity and quality issues
  • Improve monitoring and measurement through digital tools

Partnering with Ecolab, they developed a three-step action plan

STEP

RESULT

1: Prioritize at-risk facilities that required immediate action, using the Smart Water Navigator

The team developed a prioritized matrix that organized sites and helped them identify sites with the greatest operational water related risk.

2: Evaluate water use practices at every site using the Ecolab Smart Water Navigator IQ

The tool helped the team focus on specific steps that local teams could take to improve water use and efficiency, tailored to each of their sites.

3: Use Nalco Water’s 3D TRASAR™ Technology to provide water strategy effectiveness

Nalco Water’s 3D TRASAR™ dashboards provided enterprise-wide visibility, measurement and monitoring of water use, helping the team track, trend and compare water use across all data centers and quantify savings from water projects.

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— With Ecolab’s Smart Water Navigator and a plan for action, Digital Realty now has a more effective strategy to manage water at its data centers, a greater understanding of water in its organization and the ability to improve and protect its operations, watersheds and communities.,

Ecolab Smart Water Navigator

The Ecolab® Water Navigator IQ™ is an AI‑powered, end‑to‑end water intelligence platform that unifies the world’s leading water‑risk frameworks to accelerate resilience, drive performance and unlock measurable impact. . Through its holistic approach and facility‑level guidance, the Water Navigator IQ enables companies to translate ambitious water goals into real, measurable progress that turn water from a risk to manage into a strategic asset.

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