Improved Monitoring, Forecasting and Control of Water Availability, Quality and Distribution

Global water use has increased by a factor of six over the past 100 years. The ESA-supported Waterlens project based on EO and GNSS data aims to improve the monitoring of water management infrastructures.

Source: UNESCO

The WATERLENS services aim at helping water utilities to improve infrastructure maintenance planning and follow more easily the evolution of the regulatory and contractual contexts. The services offer a new and cost-effective approach for the monitoring of large water management infrastructures. They are based on multiple space assets such as Earth Observation and Global Satellite Navigation Systems. The targeted user community comprises: Companies involved in businesses with water distribution, supply, treatment and water pipe networking; Government agencies; Agriculture; Companies involved in the prevention of water related disasters; NGOs or international organisations involved in installation of water extraction and distribution in developing countries.