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Oct 2023

28m 8s

Historic Flooding and How Disaster Respo...

About this episode

Adam Drakeley, Xylem Senior Applications Engineer and Simon Mathias, Xylem Global Product Manager of Dewatering Digital Solutions, share their experiences in preparing for and responding to historic flooding that took place in Liege, Belgium, in July 2021. Drakeley and Mathias discuss:

How they prepared for an "unprecedented" dewatering need
Pumping water without power
How a response strategy was formed
Why a combination of application expertise, partnership and custom solutions from Xylem supported Liege in returning to normalcy
Much more

Read the full case study: https://www.xylem.com/en-us/support/case-studies-white-papers/field-smart-technology-leads-life-saving-efforts-in-liege/ Learn more about Field Smart Technology: https://www.xylem.com/en-us/products--services/pumps-packaged-pump-systems/monitoring-control-equipment/remote-monitoring-control/cloud-based-supervision/field-smart-technology-fst/

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