2015 Water/Energy Nexus Hackathon Showcases Potential Energy and Water Applications
August 21 2015 - 9:29PM
Business Wire
The 2015 Water/Energy Nexus Hackathon, an event sponsored by
California American Water and The Water Innovation Project, was
held on Aug. 15-16 at the General Assembly offices in San
Francisco. The hackathon collaborated water and energy experts with
the technology community to develop applications and methods that
could simultaneously help current water and energy issues.
After working on their programs for 36 hours, 15 teams presented
their product on Sunday to a panel of judges that included
California American Water’s Vice President of Operations Rich
Svindland, California Public Utilities Commissioner Catherine
Sandoval and Sally Gutierrez from U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s Office of Research and Development along with individuals
from Verizon and the Presidio School in San Francisco.
“Water Conservation for CAW,” a consultant from Houston, was
awarded Best Overall for creating an extensive tool in SAP that
would compare household hourly, daily and monthly use against a
number of benchmarks.
Other winners included the Best out of the Box Award winner
“California Drought,” who used multiple data sets to identify
vulnerable portions of the populations. “Water Game” won the
Audience’s Choice Award for creating an app with high quality
graphics and offered tax rebates to the highest water savers. The
competition prizes include $750-$1000 and computer software.
“When it comes to looking at the drought or water-energy issues,
customers and utilities both face novel challenges,” said Rich
Svindland, Vice President of Operations for California American
Water. “By bringing in new perspectives of people with a starter or
a tech background to this hackathon, they can provide a simple,
novel idea that could lead to breakthrough concepts that can help
with the water or energy issues we face today.”
California American Water, a subsidiary of American Water (NYSE:
AWK), provides high quality and reliable water and/or wastewater
service to approximately 600,000 people.
Founded in 1886, American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest and
most geographically diversified publicly traded U.S. water and
wastewater utility company. With headquarters in Voorhees, N.J.,
the company employs 6,800 dedicated professionals who provide
regulated and market-based drinking water, wastewater and other
related services to an estimated 15 million people in 47 states and
Ontario, Canada. More information can be found at
www.amwater.com.
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