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Siemens Water Solutions for Cities
Improving water conservation and preservation efforts for the entire water cycle.
Answers for infrastructure.

Siemens Water
Solutions for Cities
Water is our most precious natural resource. Today, water conservation, scarcity
and quality are pressing issues for every community—all while municipal budgets
and lack of capital are key concerns. Performance contracting is your financial
solution to solving these budgetary concerns.
Water and wastewater departments of municipalities are responsible
for nearly every stage of the water cycle—drawing water
from the source; treating, distributing and delivering drinking
water; collecting and treating wastewater; and returning high
quality effluent back into the watershed. In fact, because water
affects every resident and encompasses a large portion of the
municipal budget, it is perhaps the most important and costly
aspect of city management.
Guaranteed Performance-Based Solutions
Invest your energy and operational savings back into your
water and wastewater infrastructure
Siemens guaranteed performance-based solutions allow water
and wastewater treatment infrastructure improvements to
be funded through the energy and operational savings of the
facilities. Our internal water professionals can work with your
engineering advisors to formulate, design and implement
customized water solutions that improve the energy efficiency
of the water cycle while helping achieve water efficiency,
quality and infrastructure goals. In addition, water solutions
can help reduce landfill contributions through state-of-the-art
infrastructure improvements.
Because performance-based solutions guarantee energy and
operational savings to the municipality, Siemens takes great care
to ensure that performance contracts deliver results. Throughout
the term of the performance contract, measurement and verification
(M&V) processes are in place to measure energy usage
and verify savings to the organization. If the agreed upon energy
goals are not met, Siemens pays the shortfall. If your energy savings
surpass the guarantee goals, you receive 100 percent of the
excess savings—an unbeatable formula that lets you invest your
energy and operational savings back into your water and wastewater
infrastructure.
The Siemens Advantage
Siemens can provide comprehensive solutions for every aspect
of your water and wastewater infrastructure. Siemens takes a
program approach to reducing energy consumption and costs
throughout your city. This approach consists of conducting
energy efficiency analyses across all city facilities, including
buildings, landfills, water and wastewater treatment plants,
and more. Additionally, you can generate or capture unrealized
revenue and address the less visible but equally challenging
concerns related to aging infrastructure and manual processes.
As a leading provider of energy and environmental solutions,
building controls, fire safety and security system solutions,
Siemens provides world-class solutions in conjunction with
local support.
Our Center of Excellence team helps develop complete solutions
in big and small towns across the U.S., then takes these solutions
to all of our local branch offices to deliver complete solutions
wherever you are. Each of our branches is a full-service office
staffed by local, on-site technical service specialists and project
management teams that can deliver complete solutions.

Siemens comprehensive
water solutions affect every
stage of the water cycle
From treating, distributing and delivering drinking water to collecting and treating
wastewater, Siemens can help drive energy, operational and maintenance savings
while improving water conservation and preservation efforts for your city.
Start: Drinking Water Source
Drinking Water Treatment
Water Reuse
Water Cycle
Wastewater Treatment
Drinking Water Distribution
Wastewater Collection
Water Users

Drinking Water Source
Siemens solutions start with an understanding of water consumption
from the source, where and how it’s treated, how it’s distributed
and metered and finally how conservation and reuse can play
a valuable role in maximizing the long-term benefit of this
valuable resource.
Drinking Water Treatment
Once water has been retrieved from the source, Siemens
provides solutions to reduce energy consumption and
improve drinking water quality.
– Disinfection using chlorine or UV methods to remove
bacteria, viruses and other contaminants
– Chemical and polymer feed processes to remove
contaminants and make filtration more effective
– Energy efficient drives and motors to reduce energy
consumption through the treatment process
– Reduce the volume of lost or rejected water during treatment
Drinking Water Distribution
Moving drinking water throughout the community is a key aspect
of the water cycle. Siemens solutions can help reduce energy costs
by optimizing the drinking water distribution process. By working
with each community to determine its unique needs, Siemens
can design and implement efficient drinking water distribution
solutions through:
– High-efficiency motors and variable frequency drives
– Performance controls upgrades and optimization
– Instrumentation upgrades
– Leak detection and metering to reduce water loss and
unaccounted for water
– Remote monitoring
– Low and medium voltage switchgear
Water Users
Finding ways to accurately meter consumption and collect revenue
is especially important in communities that face water shortages.
Siemens water solutions can be designed to improve water
conservation and drive energy and operational savings.
– Water meter infrastructure improvements
– Replacing aging and inefficient water meters, as well as
installing automated meter reading (AMR) technology,
can provide municipalities with the opportunity to enhance
revenue through improved meter accuracy, reduce operations
and maintenance (O&M) costs and generate savings
from lower water meter reading costs
– Smart irrigation solutions to reduce water consumption while
replenishing greenspaces
Wastewater Collection
Siemens partners with communities to develop solutions that
improve the energy efficiency and performance of the wastewater
collection system. We work together to design and implement
such innovative solutions as:
– High efficiency motors
– Performance controls and optimization
– Instrumentation upgrades
– Remote monitoring
– Monitoring multiple pump stations from a single home
base avoids the cost and inconvenience of driving to each
individual pump station to ensure proper operation and
performance
– Variable frequency drives
– Low and medium voltage switchgear
– Control panels
– Odor control

Wastewater Treatment
As both a manufacturer as well as an energy services company
(ESCO), Siemens can provide the most comprehensive, cost-effective
and reliable wastewater treatment solutions available today.
Our Water Solutions are designed to reduce energy consumption
and operating costs through:
– High efficiency blowers
– High efficiency drives and motors
– High efficiency pumping stations
– Optimized residuals management
– Optimized biological wastewater treatment and enhanced
nutrient removal (e.g. phosphorus and nitrogen)
– Optimized wastewater clarification
– Optimized wastewater filtration
– Membrane bioreactors
– Optimized chemical and polymer feed and disinfection
– Biogas storage and energy recovery
– Sludge digestion enhancements
– Solid disintegration processes
Water Reuse
Siemens water solutions close the loop on the water cycle, helping
protect the community’s water supply and improve the environmental
benefits of water reuse. Solutions include:
– Disc filtration
– Membrane filtration
– UV disinfection
– Reverse osmosis
Water Meters
Many municipalities provide a range of utility services such as
water, electricity, or gas, often representing a significant source
of revenue. To protect this revenue stream and provide reliable,
continuous utility service to citizens, the municipality must
maintain and service the utility meters and bill both business
and residential customers for their consumption.
For water meters, the accuracy of water measured through the
meter declines over time, which can mean that municipalities
collect less revenue than expected or required to offset the cost
of consumption. In addition, municipalities with older meters
typically collect billing data through manual utility usage readings,
an inefficient and potentially inaccurate process.
Replacing aging and inaccurate water meters, as well as installing
automated meter reading (AMR) technology, can provide municipalities
with the opportunity to enhance revenue by capturing lost
and unaccounted for water, reduce operations and maintenance
(O&M) costs and generate savings from lower water meter
reading costs. Additional benefits include:
– More efficient meter reading and billing
– Increased reading accuracy, reflecting actual water consumption
of consumers
– Improved cash flow for the municipality
– Fewer rate increases to consumers
– Reduced water loss and waste through more frequent
meter readings
– Improved customer service for the city’s customers

Siemens Industry, Inc.
Infrastructure & Cities Sector
Building Technologies Division
1000 Deerfield Parkway
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Tel: (847) 215-1000
Fax: (847) 215-1093
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Siemens Industry, Inc.
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