How San Jose water uses asset management to keep the water flowing
Sustaining the nation’s water infrastructure is an ongoing task. San Jose Water (SJW), based in San Jose, Calif., has heeded the call to seriously address asset management. Serving more than one million people in the greater San Jose metropolitan area, SJW operates one of the largest and most technically sophisticated urban water systems in the United States. The system consists of three water treatment plants along with approximately 2,400 miles of pipelines, 340 pumps and motors, 100 wells, 120 tanks and reservoirs, and hundreds of thousands of other assets such as valves, fire hydrants, meters, electrical systems and chemical systems.