Municipal water system and field crew viewed through connected geospatial infrastructure layers
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A Four-Part AssetMapping.Events Webinar Series

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The Spatial Water Utility

Using location intelligence to manage assets, prioritize investment and build a more resilient utility.

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Series Overview

Infrastructure decisions start with where.

Local governments and water utilities are being asked to do more with less — maintain aging infrastructure, accommodate new development, respond to changing demand, meet regulatory requirements, improve resilience and manage a shrinking workforce.

The common denominator is location.

Pipes, valves, hydrants, treatment plants, pumps, reservoirs, service lines, customers, failures, work orders, capital projects, hazards and new development all exist somewhere.

The opportunity is to connect these locations into a trusted geospatial operating picture that supports better infrastructure decisions.

The Spatial Water Utility is a four-part webinar series exploring how GIS, field data, asset management, infrastructure engineering and emerging digital technologies can help local governments understand what they own, determine what needs investment, identify where risks are emerging and prepare for more predictive infrastructure management.

The Series Journey

Four questions. One connected infrastructure strategy.

01KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE

Build the trusted asset record.

02KNOW WHAT TO FIX

Prioritize investment using condition and risk.

03KNOW WHERE YOU'RE VULNERABLE

Map capacity, growth and resilience.

04KNOW WHAT'S LIKELY TO HAPPEN NEXT

Move toward predictive infrastructure management.

Why This Series Now

The Pressure on Water Infrastructure Is Increasing

66%

cite aging water and wastewater infrastructure as a top challenge.

38%

cite the aging workforce and difficulty hiring qualified staff.

45%

of respondents assessing capital funding expect current funding will not be sufficient for infrastructure needs over the next 5–10 years.

68%

report an increase in retirements or people leaving their utility.

The challenge is no longer collecting more data. It is connecting asset, location, condition, operational and financial information so that it can support better decisions.

Source: Black & Veatch 2026 Water Survey
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Webinar 01 · FOUNDATION LAYER

The Trusted Utility Map

From Field Capture to a Geospatial System of Record

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Geospatial operating pictureAssetsLocationField verification

Summary

A utility cannot make reliable asset-management decisions if it isn't confident about where its assets are, what they are, what condition they're in or when the information was last verified.

This session examines how local governments can create a trusted geospatial foundation for water infrastructure management by connecting field data capture, accurate positioning, GIS, asset information and maintenance-management systems.

Rather than treating GIS, field operations and asset management as separate activities, attendees will see how they can become part of a continuously improving field-to-office-to-field workflow.

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Agenda

  1. 01

    What does a trustworthy utility asset inventory look like?

  2. 02

    Moving from legacy maps, CAD and spreadsheets to a spatial asset model

  3. 03

    Field verification and accurate positioning of utility assets

  4. 04

    Connecting GIS and CMMS/EAM systems

  5. 05

    Capturing condition and maintenance information in the field

  6. 06

    Establishing asset data ownership and governance

  7. 07

    Building a sustainable field-to-office-to-field workflow

Who Should Attend

  1. GIS Directors and Managers

  2. Water/Wastewater Directors

  3. Public Works Directors

  4. Utility Engineers

  5. Asset Managers

  6. Field Operations Managers

  7. CIO / IT Leadership

  8. CMMS / EAM Administrators

Four Takeaways

  1. How to establish an authoritative spatial asset inventory.

  2. Where higher positional accuracy matters most.

  3. How GIS and asset-management systems can work together.

  4. How to continuously improve asset information rather than conducting another one-time inventory.

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Webinar 02 · DECISION LAYER

The Map That Sets the Capital Plan

Using Location, Condition and Risk to Decide What Gets Fixed First

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Geospatial operating pictureAssetsLocationConditionRiskCIP

Summary

Water utilities face an increasingly difficult question: when there is not enough funding to address every infrastructure need, where should investment go first?

This webinar explores how utilities can combine location, asset condition, maintenance history, failure probability, consequence of failure, customer impact, replacement cost and planned capital activity to build a spatially informed capital program.

Move beyond “This pipe is old.” toward “This is where failure would matter most — and here is why this project belongs in the capital plan.”

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Agenda

  1. 01

    Why age-based replacement alone isn't enough

  2. 02

    Mapping asset condition and probability of failure

  3. 03

    Mapping consequence and service criticality

  4. 04

    Combining GIS, CMMS and financial/CIP information

  5. 05

    Identifying geographic clusters of infrastructure investment

  6. 06

    Comparing renewal and replacement scenarios

  7. 07

    Communicating spatial risk to executives and elected officials

Who Should Attend

  1. GIS Directors

  2. Public Works Directors

  3. Water/Wastewater Directors

  4. Utility Engineers

  5. Asset Managers

  6. Capital Projects Directors

  7. Finance/CFO Teams

  8. City/County Managers

Four Takeaways

  1. How to create a spatial asset-risk framework.

  2. How to integrate engineering, financial and operational information.

  3. How to identify where investment can reduce the greatest infrastructure risk.

  4. How to communicate capital priorities visually to decision-makers.

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Webinar 03 · RESILIENCE LAYER

Where Will the System Break First?

Mapping Capacity, Growth and Water-System Resilience

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Geospatial operating pictureSupplyTransmissionPressureStorageDevelopmentCritical usersHazardsRedundancy
Water supply+Transmission capacity+Pressure zones+Storage+Planned development+Major industrial users+Critical facilities+Hazards+System redundancy

Summary

Infrastructure risk isn't determined only by asset age.

New development, population growth, industrial demand, drought, wildfire, flooding, supply constraints, transmission bottlenecks and limited system redundancy can fundamentally change where a utility is most vulnerable.

This webinar explores how geospatial analysis can combine infrastructure, land use, demand, hazards and system capacity to identify vulnerabilities before they become emergencies.

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Agenda

  1. 01

    Mapping current water supply and system capacity

  2. 02

    Identifying geographic capacity constraints

  3. 03

    Connecting land-use forecasts with infrastructure planning

  4. 04

    Industrial facilities and data-center water demand

  5. 05

    Mapping transmission corridors and single points of failure

  6. 06

    Incorporating drought, wildfire, flood and other hazards

  7. 07

    Storage, interconnections, reuse and alternative supply

  8. 08

    Scenario mapping for future demand and infrastructure resilience

Who Should Attend

  1. Water/Wastewater Directors

  2. GIS Directors

  3. Public Works Directors

  4. Planning & Zoning Directors

  5. Economic Development Leaders

  6. Emergency Managers

  7. Resilience Officers

  8. City/County Managers

  9. Utility Engineers

Four Takeaways

  1. How GIS can expose emerging capacity constraints.

  2. How to connect utility planning with land use and economic development.

  3. How spatial vulnerability analysis can prioritize resilience investments.

  4. How scenario mapping can support decisions about growth, supply and infrastructure.

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Webinar 04 · INTELLIGENCE LAYER

From GIS to the Predictive Utility

Building the Spatial Foundation for AI, Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance

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Geospatial operating pictureGISConnected assetsSensorsDigital twinPrediction
GIS
Connected Asset Model
Digital Twin
Predictive Intelligence

Summary

Artificial intelligence and digital twins promise to transform infrastructure management — but neither begins with AI.

They begin with trustworthy asset and location data.

This final webinar explores the progression from GIS and connected asset information to digital twins, predictive maintenance, scenario modeling and more dynamic capital planning.

The focus is practical rather than futuristic: what information should a local government capture and connect today if it wants more predictive capabilities tomorrow?

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Agenda

  1. 01

    What a digital twin means for a municipal water utility

  2. 02

    GIS as the spatial foundation

  3. 03

    Connecting GIS, EAM/CMMS, sensors, AMI and operational data

  4. 04

    Preparing asset data for AI and predictive analytics

  5. 05

    Predictive maintenance and failure forecasting

  6. 06

    Dynamic capital planning

  7. 07

    Simulation and scenario modeling

  8. 08

    Capturing institutional knowledge before experienced employees retire

  9. 09

    Creating a realistic digital-utility maturity roadmap

Who Should Attend

  1. GIS Directors

  2. Water/Wastewater Directors

  3. Public Works Directors

  4. CIOs / CTOs

  5. Asset Managers

  6. Utility Engineers

  7. Operations Leaders

  8. Digital Transformation Teams

Four Takeaways

  1. Understand the differences between GIS, asset management and digital twins.

  2. Identify what data should be captured today to enable advanced analytics tomorrow.

  3. Identify practical applications for predictive maintenance and simulation.

  4. Build an achievable digital-utility roadmap without starting with a massive AI project.

After Each Event

Intelligence reports,
produced with the archive.

An AssetMapping.Events Intelligence Report is an editorial post-event document — not a slide-deck recap. Each report is produced together with the event archive and turns a single webinar into a reference local government teams can return to.

Every report assembles the session's key takeaways, the full presentation content, audience polls and the complete Q&A, alongside a field guide, a glossary, a speakers section and a resources list. Claims are labelled by the strength of their source — HIGH, MODERATE, EMERGING or INDUSTRY-REPORTED — so readers can weigh evidence rather than rely on assertion.

The theme of each report follows the event it documents, building the same connected picture the series argues for — from the trusted asset record, through capital prioritization and resilience, to the predictive utility.

The Four Report Themes

  1. 01
    The Trusted Utility Map

    How local governments establish an authoritative spatial record of water assets — field capture, governance and decision-readiness.

  2. 02
    Prioritizing Capital Where Failure Matters Most

    Combining location, condition and risk into a spatially informed capital plan.

  3. 03
    Mapping Water-System Resilience

    Spatial vulnerability analysis across capacity, growth, hazards and redundancy.

  4. 04
    From GIS to the Predictive Utility

    The progression from connected asset data toward digital twins and predictive maintenance.

Example reportView an example intelligence report An AssetMapping.Events Presentation Insight — a different series, shown here to illustrate the report format.

The Room

Who Should Attend the Series

01GIS Directors & Managers
02Public Works Directors
03Water Utility Directors
04Wastewater Utility Directors
05City & County Engineers
06Asset Management Leaders
07Capital Projects Directors
08Utility Operations Leaders
09CIOs / CTOs
10Planning & Zoning Directors
11Emergency Managers
12Resilience Officers
13Finance & Capital Planning Teams
14City/County Managers

Series Objective

Turn Location Data Into Infrastructure Decisions

The objective of The Spatial Water Utility is not simply to show local governments more technology.

It is to demonstrate how geospatial information can become part of the infrastructure decision-making process — connecting what exists in the field with maintenance, risk, capital investment, growth, resilience and eventually predictive analysis.

By the end of the series, attendees should understand the progression from collecting accurate asset information to using location intelligence to answer four fundamental questions:

What do we have?What should we fix?Where are we vulnerable?What is likely to happen next?

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