The Bangalore water supply and sewerage systems have grown enormously during the last 4 decades. In order to handle such a large system with large volumes of geographically related information, it was imperative to develop and give decision makers a powerful management and decision making tool.
The aim of the BWSSB GIS project consisted of setting up a Geographical Information System for Water Supply and Sewerage Systems using geographical and numerical data.
The key business objectives driving the need for a corporate GIS were as follows:
- to provide interactive access to up-to-date network and geographical information for Operations and Maintenance purposes;
- to provide a planning tool to enable the acquisition of new & replaced main;
- to provide accurate and comprehensive network information for monitoring, reporting, decision making and data consolidation;
- to allow the integration of geographical information from different sources and scales, both internal and external;
- to provide a widely available asset management system, to set up a pilot repository spatial dataset for the BWSSB.
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