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2/10/25, 12:46 PM The role of digital twins in tackling water challenges

The role of digital twins in tackling water challenges

CREATED: 05 FEBRUARY 2025

Gregg Herrin, Bentley Systems vice president for water, pens a piece on how digital
twins can ensure sustainable practices and help conserve water. This is the first in
a three-part series of his op-ed, which has been slightly edited for brevity. Read on.

When thinking about climate change, it is both accurate and enlightening to view the
global environmental challenge as, primarily, a water crisis.

Climate change impacts water in several ways: regional droughts, dried-up lakes and
riverbeds, torrential rain storms and floods, diminished water quality due to chemical or
wastewater runoff, and overall concerns about water security.

These broad and multifaceted water problems are detrimental both to human health and
our ecosystem.

As climate change continues to impact our natural resources and weather patterns, the
need for sustainable and energy-efficient solutions for water management has never
been direr.

Data-driven sustainability

Infrastructure digital twins offer some novel pathways for responding to the current
global challenges related to water management.

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