524 ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications 5 SWM integration: Strengthening urban water management Various smart water management initiatives are driving innovation and creating solutions at different scales worldwide. Within urban contexts, emerging initiatives involve smart grid integration, web‐based communication, urban water management tools, models and systems, among others. The examples presented in this section are meant to provide a snapshot of some of the initiatives related to urban water management, urban wastewater management, and urban flood management issues, all of which are of vital importance to the effective functioning of SSC. 5.1 Intelligent solutions in urban water management Aquadapt Aquadapt software integrates with existing management systems to help utilities make operating decisions that reduce energy consumption (i.e. water pumps) typically one of their highest costs after personnel. Aquadapt also contributes to improve water quality and greater consistency of operations. This software is used in water utilities in North America, the United Kingdom, Korea and Australia. Australian Water Resources Information System The Australian Bureau of Metrology is currently building the Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS) as a tool to manage and display data from more than 200 organizations across the nation since it became responsible for delivering water information for Australia. The information system is intended to be a secure repository for water data and a means to deliver high quality water information to the public. Through data standardization, integration and organization, AWRIS will lead to improvements in the quality and efficiency of Australia's water management and policy decision‐making. The system is illustrated in Figure 12. Source: Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology, (2014).34 Figure 12 – The AWRIS system Further information about this solution is available at: http://www.bom.gov.au/water/about/wip/awris.shtml