East Valley Water District (EVWD) in Southern California is
in a drought-prone area. To reduce water consumption, an
analyst wanted to locate the customers who had the most
inefficient water usage so that the district could help them
conserve. Watch the Video
Using Insights for ArcGIS, EVWD calculated, by customer,
the ratio of allocated water consumption and created a heat
map that showed pockets of inefficiency throughout the
service area. Using consumption and billing data, Insights
determined temporal water use patterns and presented the
outcome on a time chart. It showed a spike in consumption
at the end of September.
Moreover, the app created a ratio of outdoor water use
to indoor water use and then filtered for customers using
20 times more water outside than inside—a total of
400 customers. Then the analyst found the worst offenders
by filtering for customers that used 100 times more water
than expected. Layering this data onto an imagery map, the
analyst zoomed to one of these 30 locations and saw that
the house had a large pool and very green landscape. He
could now give this information and location to customer
outreach staff.
Use geospatial analytics to predict the community's water
needs, prioritize capital expenditures, design resilience
strategies, and more. Insights for ArcGIS helps you ask the
right questions and find answers that you can act on to meet
water management challenges.
