Overview Carbon Water Waste Ecosystems Appendix 38 Driving innovation As we worked to establish our water strategy, we quickly Leak detection Digitizing realized we would need to address and overcome several $200M Several organizations in our partner ecosystem have key challenges specific to water data. deployed water solutions focused on leak detection and Water data is often segmented and siloed, both within We will enable nearly mitigation running on Azure. One such partner is Ecolab, water an organization and across multiple organizations $200 million in who is working to reduce water consumption and operating in the same watershed, which makes microfinance loans to increase water recycling, starting with leak detection in managing a shared resource particularly challenging. support water and manufacturing and industrial settings. We believe that Microsoft’s most Water data often lacks context, meaning it is provided sanitation access important contribution to water without an understanding of underlying conditions in projects. the area. This makes it difficult for any single reduction will come not from our organization to assess its impact on a water basin, which own work alone, but by helping our in turn complicates or obscures the most impactful customers, partners, and suppliers intervention to address water issues in that area. In addition, water data often suffers from discontinuities, around the world reduce their water where data collection is interrupted due to equipment footprints through our learnings failure or lack of funding for observational networks. The digitizing of water data is about overcoming these and with the power of data, AI, limitations to make water data credible, transparent, and digital technology. useful, and actionable. Measuring quality and consumption Microsoft is developing solutions to help customers understand water-related risks due to climate change, use data to reduce water use, and make smarter decisions about water. In the past year, we’ve launched new solutions accelerators on Azure IoT Central that include remote, real-time water quality monitoring and water consumption monitoring, geared toward reducing water consumption. Find out more here Our partner ecosystem has deployed water solutions for leak detection and mitigation.