ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications 525 AQUADVANCED an innovative IT solution AQUADVANCED helps water operators to reduce operational costs, control water quality, and save water and energy. Its intuitive and modular interface gives operators a comprehensive view of the water network performance in real time, and enables them to efficiently manage their distribution networks. AQUADVANCED makes complex data actionable by gathering and analysing all the data coming from GIS, SCADA, sensors, data historian, workforce management, customer relation management in one single platform and turning it into a simple decision‐making tool. More precisely, AQUADVANCED easily manages sectors by monitoring flows, pressure, water quality, and energy. It offers advanced event management (leaks detection, pressure level drops) in order to identify abnormal events and their causes, locate them accurately and monitor their resolution. The software analyses hydraulic behaviour in order to anticipate failure risks and simulate the impact of interventions. It also continuously monitors water quality throughout the water distribution network, as well as energy performance and provides optimal energy operating strategies. Figure 13 – Screenshots of AQUADVANCED interfaces EU UrbanWater project UrbanWater is a collaborative ICT project co‐funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The project is expected to be completed in 2015. It seeks to create an intelligent web‐based urban water management system for effective urban water management. The platform will incorporate advanced metering solutions and real‐time consumption data to equip water utilities with the information necessary for proper decision‐making. By integrating water availability estimations based on weather prediction and surface water reserves data, demand estimations based on household consumption data and consumption patterns and models, the water distribution network data, as well as automatic billing capabilities including adaptive pricing and customer engagement tools and using secure and cloud‐based data management, both utilities and customers alike will be able to obtain the right information to effect change in consumption patterns in urban areas. Further information about this initiative is available at: http://urbanwater‐ict.eu/the‐solution‐2/