Water Infrastructure Asset Management PrimerWater Infrastructure Asset Management PrimerWater infrastructure systems are essential for sustaining societal quality of life. However, they face a variety of challenges and potential threats to sustained performance, including ageing, deterioration, underfunding, disruptive events, and population growth, among others. Infrastructure Asset Management can contribute significantly to address those challenges and sustain system performance in the long term. Current infrastructure asset management frameworks focus mostly on performance management, and although sustainability and resiliency management are considered at some degree, it is necessary to advance the understanding and integration of more practical and comprehensive sustainability and resiliency enhancing methods and tools into the asset management practice mainstream. Infrastructure sustainability and resilience are still predominantly academic topics, but there are enough practical advances to start integrating and relating them with current asset management mainstream discourse. Furthermore, the integration of infrastructure sustainability and resilience methodologies with asset management is convenient given the increase in risks to infrastructure performance worldwide. Also available as part of your Water Inteligence Online subscription
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