Waterwatch© Program Information

Waterwatch^© is a software-based service developed for municipal water departments and water utilities. It provides residential customers with accurate, individualized information on how water is used inside and outside their homes.

 The service is based upon a copyright-protected computer program to analyze consumption patterns and quantify the amount of water consumed by each end-use. The program “engine” builds a statistically valid model that is derived from water industry research data, historic weather data and survey information provided by the customer.

Waterwatch^©  incorporates two independent consumption alogrithms, one based on the survey information (the "engineering" estimate) and one based on the metered water usage (the "regression" estimate.)  The program runs iterations of the consumption model until the engineering estimate is correlated to the regression estimate.  This modeling function is performed for both indoor and outdoor uses, as indicated by the survey data.  Additionally, the outdoors uses model factors historic levels of evapo-transpiration and rainfall from recorded weather data. 

Waterwatch^© was developed by conservation program consultant, Mick Fiato. Mike Lints, Sc.D. created the engineering model, mathematical algorithms and computer code.  Ron Northcutt was responsible for web development.

Please see Fact Sheet and Sample Report pages.