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The Future of Water Infrastructure Asset Management, Part 2: Protect Your Funding … Because All Roads Lead to Finance
Author(s) -
Baird Gregory M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.5942/jawwa.2013.105.0048
Subject(s) - futures studies , finance , work (physics) , asset (computer security) , business , lead (geology) , capital (architecture) , asset management , service (business) , engineering , marketing , computer science , computer security , mechanical engineering , archaeology , geomorphology , artificial intelligence , history , geology
How many master plans, project designs, and innovative engineering approaches have been shelved only to gather dust after hundreds of hours of good engineering work? How many capital‐budgeted and ‐approved projects have been deferred or simply canceled after years of dedicated foresight, project planning, and development? The level of frustration among both public and private engineers has heightened in this new economy, which is fraught with uncertainty and doubt. Operations and maintenance personnel share in the experience, with program reductions, hiring freezes, and resources being stretched so thin that they affect service levels and customer response times.