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Asset investment planning for water utilities.

Mains, treatment plants, pumping stations, sewer networks. Build the AMP-cycle plan that justifies your CAPEX, reduces non-revenue water, and meets the regulator's resilience and water-quality bar.

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What is AIP for water utilities?

AIP for water utilities

is the discipline used by water and wastewater operators to prioritize multi-year capital programmes — main replacement, plant refurbishment, network extension, sewer rehabilitation — under regulatory price reviews and resilience expectations. AIP combines asset condition, failure forecasts, and consequence weighting to produce a defensible, multi-year CAPEX plan. According to Gartner’s Market Guide for AIP Solutions (December 2024), water and power are among the earliest adopters of AIP because of their expanding asset base and stringent regulatory requirements.

Six pressures every water utility is planning against.

Buried-asset uncertainty

The mains underground are decades old, condition data is patchy, and digging to inspect is expensive. Decisions still have to defend themselves.

Non-revenue water

Leaks, theft, and metering inaccuracy erode revenue. Investment in detection and replacement competes with treatment-plant CAPEX.

Regulatory price reviews

AMP cycles (UK), PFAS and lead service line replacement (US), urban wastewater directive compliance (EU) — every cycle ratchets the bar higher.

Climate stress

Drought, flood, and storm-surge resilience now shape investment priorities as much as historical condition.

Energy and carbon footprint

Pumping is energy-intensive. Net-zero commitments collide with treatment quality and resilience needs.

Workforce attrition

Engineering teams holding the network model in tribal knowledge are aging out. The decision logic has to live in the platform.

Purpose-built for the water asset lifecycle.

Assess

Linear-asset failure modelling

Pipe age, material, ground condition, soil chemistry, pressure, and burst history feed predictive models covering every water-asset family. Replace the highest-consequence main first — not the oldest — with consequence factors including service population, regulatory exposure, and environmental sensitivity.

Simeo · Asset Risk
Pipe register — material, condition and burst probability
Prioritise

Carbon and energy inside the plan

Treatment plant asset families — screens, basins, filters, pumps, electrical — modelled for refurbishment versus replacement with full-life cost. Pumping energy and treatment chemicals quantified per scenario. Net-zero pathway sits inside the CAPEX plan, not next to it.

Simeo · Scenarios
Scenario comparison — CAPEX vs. NRW reduction vs. carbon
Defend

Audit-ready evidence for every filing

Every action links to the asset, the condition data, the model, the regulatory line item. CMMS integration keeps field execution flowing back to the model and strategic plan flowing forward to work-order prioritisation. ISO 55001 and AMP submission-ready.

Simeo · Compliance
Regulatory dashboard — AMP evidence and investment traceability

CMMS integration partner: CARL Software — field execution flows back to the model; strategic plan flows forward to work-order prioritisation.

Three workflows water utilities run on day one.

Regulatory price-review filing

AMP-cycle-ready evidence. Asset-level CAPEX justification. Defensible under regulator scrutiny. Every action links to the asset, condition data, model, and regulatory line item.

Network investment planning

Main replacement, sewer rehabilitation, network extension. Multi-decade scenarios modelled under budget and risk constraints so the highest-consequence work gets funded first.

Net-zero vs resilience

Pumping carbon, treatment energy, climate adaptation. Simeo shows where the trade-offs bite at the asset level — so decarbonisation and resilience targets sit inside the same plan.

What water utility executives quote back.

Up to 30%
TCO reduction
10%+
Reliability improvement
6–12 wks
To first plan
AMP-ready
Regulatory evidence

Other utility networks.

Compare AIP across networks.

Power Utilities

Generation, transmission, distribution. SAIDI/SAIFI-aligned investment plans. DER integration scenarios.

Gas Utilities

Distribution networks, compressors, pressure regulation. Methane-leak prioritisation. Hydrogen-readiness scenarios.

Energy & Utilities overview

The Energy & Utilities hub — how AIP applies across all three network types in a single planning framework.

Frequently asked questions

How does Simeo handle limited buried-asset condition data?

Most water utilities start with patchy condition data. Simeo's predictive models infer condition from age, material, soil, pressure, and burst history — so you get a defensible risk view immediately, then refine as inspection data flows in.

How does Simeo support regulatory filing submissions?

Yes. The audit-ready evidence trail — asset register, condition data, predictive model output, action library, multi-year plan — aligns with the documentation regulators expect. Same logic supports EU UWWTD and US PFAS / lead service line filings.

Does Simeo model non-revenue water investment cases?

Yes. NRW reduction (leak detection, district metering, mains replacement) competes head-to-head with treatment and source CAPEX in the same scenario engine.

Does Simeo integrate with our hydraulic model?

Simeo ingests data from major hydraulic and SCADA systems via REST/GraphQL APIs. Integration patterns documented per system.

Where can Simeo be deployed?

Default: Azure France region (EU residency, ISO 27001, NIS2-aligned). For utilities under strict isolation requirements: fully self-hosted Kubernetes deployment.

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