Case Study of Seosan Smart Water Management

Case Study Mr. Sukuk Yi, Dr.
Munhyun
Ryu, Dr. Jinsuhk Suh, Dr.
of Seosan Shangmoon Kim,
Smart Water
Mr. Seokkyu Seo,
Mr. Seonghan Kim,
Management K-water (Korea Water
Resources Corporation)
South Korea Seosan

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Table of Contents Summary

Summary75
Water management has become increasingly important over the past decades with increase
1. Background 76 of the natural hazards and disasters caused by climate change, deteriorating water manage-
1.1 The importance of Water Management 76 ment facilities, and increased water consumption due to population growth and urbanisation
in Korea. To solve these water challenges and improve the efficiency of water management,
1.2 Present conditions of Seosan 77 K-water has introduced ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in their water
1.3 Challenge description 81 management. Water management using ICT, known as Smart Water Management (SWM),
1.4 Laws and systems related to drought 87 enables sustainable water supply to every citizen by water resource monitoring, problem
diagnosis, efficiency improvement and harmonising management.
2. Smart Water Management Solution 90 The Smart Seosan City project started when Seosan city asked for a smart metering system
2.1 Innovative Smart Water Management technology for the Seosan local water supply system as a drought measure in January 2016. Seosan city
solution proposed 91 decided to employ smart metering to the local water system when regional and national
drought reaction plans were established according to laws and plans. Before this project,
2.2. Introduction of SWM in Seosan city 92 K-water was operating smart metering as a pilot project in the Goryeng area (from January
to May 2015) and had consigned Seosan’s local water supply. K-water suggested smart
3. Outputs and Outcomes 97 metering to Seosan city and the city accepted this suggestion. The main purpose of the
3.1 Economic outputs 97 project was to construct smart water management systems, which focus on reducing water
leakages and consequently improving revenue water ratio by using remote metering, smart
3.2 Social outcomes 98 meters and Information and Communication Technology. Unlike a human read meter, which
relies on a person to manually check the data on a meter on site, these smart meters deliver
4. Links with the Sustainable Development Goals 100 a user’s hourly water usage via digital meter (smart meter) and wireless communication
4.1 Goal 6 and Target 6.4 100 technology (ICT).
4.2 Economic net profit occurs 101 Consequently, the project results show 20% improvement in the revenue water ratio and
190,000 m3 of water per year decrease in leakage. This results in a benefit of USD 590,000 over
5. Lessons Learned and Conclusions 101 the next 8 years and the cost benefit is expected to increase. By switching to using remote
5.1 Lessons Learned 101 meters for water use and quality, customers’ satisfaction has been improved as it has become
possible to handle complaints promptly and also to provide additional water quality manage-
5.2 Next Steps 103 ment services. Government support played a major role in the implementation of this project,
as the planning and execution of the drought policy, existing laws and system helped state
References 103 and local government and public institutions plan measures systematically and react in a
concerted manner. In addition to this, the government budget support for the project was
Annex 1: Economic Analysis 104 essential in facilitating the project’s implementation. Seosan smart water management
required early facility investment and operating costs but in the long term, an increase in net
profit is expected. As the smart water market is becoming more active with many companies
Annex 2: SWM devices 105 competing, future costs are expected to decrease. Smart metering enables a sustainable
water supply by reducing water leakages and saving water and energy. When water supply is
reduced or limited by drought or other challenges, new water resource development is needed
to supply water stably.
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1. Background 1970 to 98.8% in 2015) and urbanization in Korea over the past 50 years (from 40.7% in 1970 to
82.5% in 2015) has resulted in the strong need to focus on water management in Korea.
Table 1. Population and urbanization rate in Korea
Year 1970 1975 1980 1990 2000 2010 2015

Country: Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Population: 51.25 million Population (thousand) 31,435 34,678 37,406 43,390 45,985 47,041 49,705
City: Seosan City, South Chungcheong Province Urbanization rate (%) 40.7 48.0 56.7 73.8 79.6 81.9 82.5
Population of Seosan City: 173,715 Source: Statistics Korea, KOSIS (Korea Statistical Information Service)
Climate: Humid continental
1.1.3 Deterioration of water management facility

Annual financial loss due to the deterioration of water management facilities and infrastructure
1.1 The importance of Water Management in Korea is estimated at USD 500 million dollars (comparable in per capita terms to the 3.4 billion
Water management has become an issue of increasing importance over the past decades as dollars in the United States, with over 6 times Korea’s population). As it is has been predicted
a number of factors including climate change induced natural hazards and disasters, deteri- that deteriorated water management facility replacement and repairs will cost the United States
orating water management facilities, population growth and megalopolitanisation continue 334.8 billion dollars over the next 20 years (EPA, 2009); Korea is quickly working towards ensuring
to impact already scarce water sources. This reduced water availability leads to an increase they do not also face these high long-term costs for deteriorating infrastructure.
in famine and disease, and creates increased water insecurity and conflict in predominately
developing countries. Water insecurity is also felt in the Republic of Korea, where drought
caused by the changing climate is causing concerns for water access in many areas. 1.2 Present conditions of Seosan
1.2.1 General conditions
The geographical scope of this project is Palbong-myun, Seosan city, Korea. Seosan city
1.1.1 The changing climate in Korea
is located in the Taean peninsula, north-west of Chungchungnam-do on the west coast of
As the 5th evaluation report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Korea (see Figure 2). Mountains such as Mt. Gaya and Mt. Palbong surround it to the north
(IPCC) in 2014 predicted that if the average global temperature increased by 2 degrees
and the south. Its annual average precipitation is 1,285.7mm and annual average tempera-
increases in coastal flooding would create a risk for food production, species and ecosystem
ture is 17.3°C. Seosan city covers an area of 741.21 km2 and (when including Palbong-myun
protection, and land loss, it is of great concern that Korea’s average temperature has already
(51.34km2); it consists of 1 eup (town), 9 myun (townships) and 5 dong (neighbourhoods). It
risen by almost half of this (0.89 degrees) over the past 112 years (1990 to 2012).
has a long and complicated coastline and two lakes, Lake Ganwol (2,164 ha) and Lake Bunam
(1,021ha), which were created by the Chunsu gulf reclamation project.
In addition to increased temperatures, average annual precipitation over the past three
decades has also increased from 1,310mm (in the 1980s) to 1,382mm (since 2000). According to
The west coast area, including Daesan Seaside Manufacturing Area, is now developing due
the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 scenario1 the Korean peninsula will have
to a newly constructed west coast highway and active trade with China; Seosan has there-
a higher annual average precipitation growth rate than the world average, increasing by 10.3%
fore emerged as a main city of Chungchungnam-do. The local economy is booming due to
in the mid 21th century (2041-2070) and by 19.6% in the second half of the century (2071-2100).
the newly built manufacturing area, which includes such companies as Daesan petrochemical
At the same time, great regional deviation is expected.
complex, Seosan Techno Valley and the recent transfer of the head offices of big enterprises
such as Hyundai Oil bank, Hanhwa Total and Hyundai Powertech.
Figure 1. Changes in rainfall and average temperature (6 cities) in Korea (Source: MOLIT (2017) The 4th Long-term
Comprehensive Plan for Water Resources (2001-2020), 3rd Revision
1.1.2 Population growth and urbanisation

As the population of Korea has increased from 31.4 million in 1970 to 49.7 million in 2015 (a
58% increase), water shortages already play a major role in Korea. In addition to the rapid
population growth rate, a significant increase in both the water supply rate (from 31.2% in
1. The Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), which IPCC introduced for the 5th Assessment Report, describe four different 21st century
pathways of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and atmospheric concentrations, air pollutant emissions and land use. RCPs include a stringent Figure 2. Location of targeted area (Palbong-myun, Seosan city (Source: K-water)
mitigation scenario (RCP 2.6), two intermediate scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP6.0), and one scenario with very high GHG emissions (RCP8.5).
RCP4.5 means that the carbon dioxide concentration is 540ppm and the greenhouse gas reduction policy has been realized considerably.
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1.2.2 Population Growth and Seosan City’s Economy

In line with the national population growth rate, the population of Seosan City has increased
by 5% in only four years, from 164,345 in 2011 to 175,132 in 2015. The Gross Regional Domestic
Product (GRDP) of Seosan City is 51.5396 trillion won (USD 47.7 billion), which is predomi-
nately created through the commerce and services industry (69.3% of the workforce), along
with mining and manufacturing (30.1% of the workforce). Only 0.4% of the population works in
agriculture and fisheries, demonstrating the highly urbanised nature of Seosan city.
1.2.3 Water supply, drainage facility and water source

Since 2006, Seosan City consigned its water facility to K-water and has been receiving 67,200 m3
of filtered water per day (Statics of waterworks, 2015) from the multiregional water supply
of Boryeong Dam, without its own treatment facility. The pipeline of Seosan water supply is
2,041km long and includes 10 distributing reservoirs, 23 booster stations and 22,487 hydrants. FIGURE 3. Water supply & sewer service ratio
In Palbong-myun, the length of the pipeline is 218km and the number of hydrants is 1550. In
2015, Seosan city’s water distribution rate was 92% and water consumption per person was
262.5 litres. Respectively, the water distribution rate and water consumption per person in Boryeong dam is the main water source for Seosan city, supplying 240,000 m3 of water per
Palbong myun were 97.7% and 191.7 litres. Revenue water ratio of Seosan water supply facility day to the west area of Chungcheungnam-do’s 8 cities2 and districts (480 thousand people)
improved dramatically after consignment. Comparing to a rate of 65.3%, before consignment, including Seosan city and 5 thermoelectric power plants. Seosan city is the largest consumer
the revenue water ratio of 2016 had dramatically increased, reaching 82.8%. demanding 18 millions m3 of water per year and Chung-yang district is provided smallest
amount, 1.2 millions m3 annually. Boryeong dam is quite a small basin area (163.6 km2) despite
this it provided approximately 90 million m3 of water to 8 cities and districts in 2013. It provides
Box 1. Water supply system of Korea 84% of its supply capacity, which is approximately 106 million m3 per year.
In Korea, K-water functions as a wholesaler and supplies multiregional water supply. On
the other hand, the local water supply system is supplied by the municipal government,
which functions as a retailer. K-water withdraws water from dams and rivers to supply
multiregional water supply and industrial waterworks while local government supplies
water to residents through its own water source or multiregional water supply. Some of
the local water supply system is managed by K-water by consignment1.
Multiregional water supply

K-water withdraws water from water dams and multipurpose dams, and treats it. It
supplies water to local governments and industries. Local governments deliver this
water to households. In 2014, K-water operated 35 multiregional water supplies. 60.2%
(8,285,000 m³ per day) of the total capacity (13,860,000m³per day) was concentrated in
metropolitan areas, consuming 52.9% of the total water supply.
Local water supply system

The Seosan water supply system receives its water from both outside Seosan (from
multiregional sources) and local water sources, and supplies its water to households Figure 4. Boryeong dam and the 8 cities supplied water from the dam (Source: K-water)
and industries.
Status of Facilities in Palbong
In December 2013, there were 162 local water suppliers in Seosan (7 metropolitan cities, Palbong distributing area supplies water to its neighbourhood with 2,099 hydrants supplying
1 metropolitan autonomous city, 1 special self-governing province, 75 cities and 78 2,431m3 per day. Its revenue water ratio before the SWM Seosan project was estimated at
districts). The water supply ratio was 98.5% and penetration rate of sewage treatment approximately 60%. The whole pipe consists of polyethylene (PE) pipe, which was installed
equipment was 92.1%. between 2009 and 2011, and small calibre under 15mm supplying 97% of the water.
Table 2. Pipe conduit and hydrant in Palbong
mm 13 15 20 25 32 40 50 Total
Hydrant 2,006 23 47 13 7 2 1 2,099
% 96% 1% 2% 1% 100%
Source: K-water
2. Boryeong, Seosan, Yesan, Hongseong, Taean, Seochun, Dangjin, Chungyang
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Palbong is a large mountain area of 54 km2 with a non-metallic pipeline of about 218 km, < Invert Height (EL.m) in distributing area> < Distribution of hydraulic pressure in the area (m) >
making leakage management very difficult. In addition, despite night minimum flow being
relatively high (approximately 47 m3/hour) flow and leakage analysis during the night is limited
to two points only (P-A and P-B, see Figure 6).
Figure 5. Minimum night flow of Palbong district (m3/hour), 2015 (Source: K-water)
The District Metered Area (DMA) P-A uses water from a small population of about 1,550 service
connections in a large mountain area. On the other hand, the DMA P-B usually consists of
larger users such as apartment blocks, shopping malls and the army force accounting for 50%
(23 thousands m3/month) of the total supply, and therefore has a higher requirement for
regular monitoring.
While the distributing reservoir is located in the hillside (HWL 89m) most of the Palbong district
consists of waterfront lowland (EL. 10~30m). Therefore high hydraulic pressure is required Figure 7. Hydraulic pressure and invert height in distributing area (Source: K-water)
(more than 588.4 Kilopascals) in the pipe conduit.
1.3 Challenge description

1.3.1 Drought
Korea has experienced damage caused by intensifying climate variability and increasing
frequency of floods and droughts over the past 100 years. Change in precipitation shows a
growing tendency from the 1990s with annual precipitation showing considerable variations
over the past 100 years from a minimum of 764mm (1939) to a maximum of 1,756mm (2003).
In addition, drought conditions have intensified with 2013 recording only 89% of the average
annual precipitation and 2014 recording 90%. In 2015, average precipitation (965mm) was
only 72% of that in a normal year (1,342 mm), 3rd lowest in recorded history. Droughts have
occurred every 5 to 7 years nationwide since the 1970’s and unlike floods, which occur only
during summer, droughts can occur throughout the year.
Figure 6. The area of P-A and P-B DMA (Source: K-water)

Figure 8. Precipitation by year
Table 3. Regional precipitation in 2015
Seoul, Gangwon
Area (mm) Nationwide Chungnam Jeonnam Gyungnam
Gyunggi Youngseo
Precipitation 964.9 746.8 787.2 811.5 1266.2 1320.3
Average year 1342.0 1359.3 1327.2 1310.9 1403.4 1498.8
Percentage (%) 71.9 54.9 59.3 61.9 90.2 88.1
The Lowest rank 3 1 2 2 18 17
Source : K-water
[Mar. 2015] [Jun. 2015] [Nov. 2015]

FIGURE 10. Change in Water Supply Drought Index 2
TABLE 4. Regional precipitation in 2014-2015

Seoul, Gangwon
Area (mm) Nationwide Chungnam Jeonnam Gyungnam
Gyunggi Youngseo
Precipitation
2162.2 1549.1 1508.3 1881.7 2781.0 2923.7
(2014~2015)
Average year 2684.1 2718.5 2654.4 2621.7 2806.8 2997.5
(%) 80.6 57.0 56.8 71.8 99.1 97.5
The Lowest
5 1 1 1 22 22
rank
Source: Since 1973, based on 56 local offices of Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA)
Figure 9. 2015 Korean annual average accumulated precipitation (left) and precipitation ratio compared with that of
average year (right)
(Source: K-water)
In 2015, the total inflow rate in the Boryeong dam was 7.83 billion m3 (43.7% of the average
year) and during the summer (July to September), the inflow rate was only 3 billion m3 (25% of
Box 2. Water challenges in Korea the annual average) and drought level of 200 years cycle. After November, the total inflow rate
Water shortage caused by lack of precipitation from 2014 to 2015 started from the upper was 7.7 billion m3 (121.7% of average year) due to frequent rain. On January 1st 2016, nine of
region of the Han River and spread to the whole country including the Nakdong River. 18 multi-purpose dams reported deficient pond levels.
The successive low precipitation of 2014 and 2015 made the drought more serious. In
Korea, the accumulation of two years of consecutive precipitation (of 2,162mm) was
only 81% of the annual average (2,684mm) and recorded the 5th lowest precipitation
in history. A drought in 2015 caused by a shortage of precipitation resulted in 60% of
the precipitation occurring during typhoon and rainy season. In the early to mid-rainy
season the rain front was located in the southern part of Korea due to the North Pacific
high (a semi-permanent, subtropical anticyclone), and did not pass until the late rainy
season when the North Pacific high weakened.
Figure 11. Inflow rate of multi-purpose dam in 2015

(Source: K-water)
1.3.2 Decrease water reserve rate of Boryeong dam and From January to October 2015, the accumulated inflow rate recorded a minimum after dam
construction, and after November, there was 16 million m3 of water inflow, 4 times larger than
increase supply that of the average year, while the annual total amount was only 42.5% of that of average year.
The Boryeong dam was constructed from 1998 to April 2016. Investigation results on annual
As the drought continued from 2014, the water of the dam recorded its lowest level in history
average storage ratios show that the dam storage ratio is decreasing, with the annual average
and caused a water supply suspension crisis (dam exhaustion crisis) in western Chungnam
storage decreasing by 25.2% when compared with that in 2014.
area. On October 30th 2015, it recorded 19.7% of the storage ratio and only had 33% of that in
an average year (23.07 million m3 in basic date and 70.2 million m3 in average year). This was
about 22 million m3 below the historical record low storage amount of 45 million m3 recorded
the previous year.
Figure 12. Change in water level of Boryeong Dam and its water reserve rate3 (Source: K-water)
Due to the development of a new city area (Naepo New Town4) and power plant and indus-
trial complex construction, water demand and supply are increasing in the Chungnam area.
Results from research on Boryeong’s multiregional water supply over a 10 year period show
that Boryeong supplied 38.253 million m3 of water to 15 water supply contractors in 2005 Figure 14. Water reserve rate of Boryeong dam in 2015
(Source: K-water)
which increased to 71.613 m3 of water to 23 water supply contractors in 2014. Showing
an increase in water supply of 1.87 times compared with that of 2005 and an increase in
contracts by 1.5 times5.
Figure 13. Statistics of annual supply of Boryeong dam multiregional water supply in last decade (2005~2014)
(Source: K-water)
Figure 15. Water gate of Boryeong revealing its bottom (2015.10.24)
(Source: K-water)
Boryeong dam’s water supply capability and effective reservoir capacity are very close,
creating a major risk if water withdrawals continue during periods without stable rainfall. A
These drought conditions resulted in severe water shortages and concern for domestic water
one year drought alone is capable of causing serious damage to the water resource supply. The
supply. To address this the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), K-water and
inflow rate of July 2015 to September 2015 (during the rainy season) was just 15.1 million m3,
local government established and promoted a reaction plan for dam supply adjustment, water
15.3%, of the average inflow rate of average year, worse than the 200 years cycle of drought.
supply system adjustment and a restriction on water supply.
3. K-water, www.kwater.or.kr
4. Naepo is new town of Chungnam. The construction of Naepo New Town, which becomes the new host city of Chungnam Provincial Office
and the Province’s new hub city. It settled down in an area of 9,950,521m2 over Hongseong and Yesan.
5. A study on assessment water supply capacity of Boryoung dam and drought measures, Chungnam institute, 2016
Box 3. Water restrictions at Boryeong Dam < Invert Height (EL.m) in service area > < water pressure(m) in service area >
Water restrictions at Boryeong Dam consisted of three stages. The first stage (serious
level 1) started from August 18th 2015 and finished on February 15th 2016, lasting a total
of 127 days and resulted in saving 4.047 million m3 in only 22 days.
• First stage (serious level 1): 91% of dam supply and 9% of water distribution system
adjustment. Supply 100% of domestic and industrial water
• Second stage (serious level 2): 71% of dam supply and 9% of water distribution
system adjustment. Supply 80% of domestic and industrial water
• Third stage (reached low level of water): 66% of dam supply and 9% of water
distribution system adjustment. Supply 75% of domestic and industrial water.
1.3.3 Low revenue water rate and difficulties in metering

Prior to the SWM project, the total revenue water (water produced and not lost through leaks
or other losses) of Seosan city was 83%. While this is quite high in comparison to the revenue
water of the Palbong area (of 67%) including Palbong-myun (the area where Seoul is located)
the geographical characteristics, wide supply area of 54 km2 and low population density of
Seosan (Seoul city is 16,500/km2 and Palbong-myun is 68/km2; Seosan has 250 times the
supply area per person), make leakage detection and prevention very challenging.
Figure 17. Invert Height and water pressure distribution in service area (Source: K-water)
1.4 Laws and systems related to drought

In Korea, relevant laws and regulations have a central department and local government to
establish plans and measures against disaster such as drought. Korean drought measures have
been established considering security and disaster management according to the Framework
Act on the management of Disasters and Safety and Countermeasures against Natural Disaster
Act (See Box 4 for details).
Box 4. Laws, systems, plans and policies related to

drought and water management
Figure 16. Comparing target area and pipeline length
(Source: K-water)
Framework Act on the management of Disasters and Safety
The prime minister establishes a basic plan about security management and then each
1.3.4 High water pressure of lowland pipe conduit department and public organization establishes an execution plan and develops this into
While the Palbong distributing reservoir is located in the hillside (High Water Level 89m) most of the a detailed execution plan. So a safety plan related to natural disasters, such as drought,
area is situated in the lowland closed to waterfront (elevation of 10-30m). This geographical charac- must include typhoon and flood measures, drought measures and earthquake measures.
teristic, along with the use of nonmetal (PE) piping, has resulted in low resistance to water pres- An implementation plan must then be formulated in 4 stages: prevention, preparation,
sure causing more leakage when high pressure is required and generated high water pressure of response and restoration.
about 490.3-484.5 Kilopascals.
Countermeasures against Natural Disaster Act
The Countermeasures against Natural Disaster Act states that the disaster management
agency has the responsibility of natural disaster prevention. Therefore the Ministry of Govern-
ment Administration and Home Affairs, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
(MOLIT), the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Environment, the
Ministry of Public Safety and Security, and the Meteorological Administration etc. have to
work together to research and investigate drought preventing restrictions on water supply
and electricity generation for drought restoring, management and maintenance of facilities
and establish mid- to long-term plans for the habitual drought afflicted area.
Due to a change in governmental structure, the water management functions of the Korean
Comprehensive Plan for Long-Term Water Resource central government are now dispersed. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Management (2011-2020) takes responsibility for agricultural water management and Ministry of Trade, Industry and
The Comprehensive Plan for Long-Term Water Resource Management (2011-2020) is the Energy manages water for hydroelectric power, while the Ministry of Public Safety and Secu-
highest plan established to secure stable water resource and intends efficient manage- rity manages typhoons and floods. Each department plans drought measures. For example,
ment in Korea. It presents a future roadmap for water use, flood control, research and related to safety management, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and K-water,
development of river environment and water resources. After the 1960’s, in its early which both deal with water resources and projects divide dams and multiregional water
times, it focused on water resource development and management such as multi-pur- supply, evaluate drought situation and plan measures as detailed execution plan6.
pose dam development but after the 1990’s it established a plan focusing on environ-
mentally friendly and desirable water usage. The 7th plan has now been established. Table 5. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Dam)’s response plan according to drought situation
Order Drought situation (criteria: water supply) Reaction plan

Within these drought related water management policies, comprehensive plans for long-
term water resource management secure a new water resource to counter future water • Install banner for drought overcome
shortages and enhance stable supplies of water resources. These plans also improve • Check the status of drought such as
Supply 80-90% of basic plan
water shortage area
efficient use of water, expand multi-purpose water use system as well as construct and 1st stage (supply actual demand of domestic/
• Saving water campaign using broadcast,
advertise smart water management systems to enhance the communities’ ability to face (Attention) industrial water, agricultural water and
campaign, brochure
future droughts. river maintenance water)
• Reduce marginal water of multi-purpose
dams and water dams
Chungnam Water Resource Master Plan (2015.01)
• Establish and operate drought situation
With the national comprehensive plan for long-term water resource management,
room (Ministry of land, infrastructure
Chungcheoungnam-do (Chungnam) established a water resource master plan to alle-
and transport, K-water)
viate permanent water shortages by securing water resources and efficient water use, • Identify drought areas and establish
to develop and preserve rivers. In 2012, when the biggest drought damage occurred in support measures and cooperative
west area of Chungcheongnam-do, they established water resource master plans to alle- Supply 60-80% of basic plan (supply actual
system between agencies and
demand of domestic/industrial water and
viate water shortages, thereby securing stable water resources and efficient use, devel- 2nd stage governments
agricultural water)
opment and preservation of rivers considering regional demands. (Caution) • operate emergency water vehicle and
(restriction on river maintenance water
provide bottled water
supply)
According to this plan, the Chungnam area is facing a water crisis in both water quantity • consider dam’s water supply capacity
and quality and this crisis will be intensified in the future. It is also expected that in this and supply plan
tendency, domestic/industrial water will be face 111.9 thousand m3 of water shortages • reduce river maintenance water of
multi-purpose dam and water dam. If
per day and both deposited water and agricultural water will need 26.4 thousand m3
necessary, restrict agricultural water
and 16,318 thousand m3 of water per day. To prepare for water shortages expected in
future, Chungcheoungnam-do also focuses on demand management with traditional • Restrict water on dam area and
multiregional water supply municipality
supply oriented management. The Chungcheongnam-do water demand management
• Request local government to secure own
comprehensive plan consists of reduction on water supply leakage, water charges ratio-
alternative water source
nalization, sewage and wastewater reuse and developing alternative water to enhance • Operate emergency water source such
water demand management. Including the new city area, it planned to save 50,426 thou- Supply 50-60% of basic plan (supply actual
as ground water
sand m3 per year (accumulated between 2012-2015) and cost 2.3611 trillion won (2.053 3rd stage demand of domestic/industrial water)
• Supply actual demand of domestic/
(Alert) (restriction on river maintenance water and
billion USD). This will result in a predicted annual saving of 3.878 million m3 (10,624 m3 industrial water from multi-purpose
agricultural water supply)
per day) by 2025. dam and water dam. If necessary,
reduce actual demand of domestic/
National Plan on the Management of Safety (2015-2019, 2015) industrial water
• Consider how to utilize emergency water
According to Article 34.6 of the Constitution, Article 22 of Framework Act on the manage-
of dam
ment of Disasters and Safety and Article 26 of Degree of the Framework Act on the manage-
ment of Disasters and Safety, it is the highest plan which establishes basic direction for Supply under the 50% of basic plan • Restrict water supply on dam areas and
(Supply dead storage of dam) multiregional water supply municipality
disaster and safety management to protect life, property and body of people from disaster 4th stage
(supply actual demand of domestic/ • Operate emergency water source
and accidents. The purpose of this plan is confronting changing disaster circumstances (serious)
industrial water and restrict agricultural • Supply emergency water source of
such as urbanization, concentration of population, climate change, and epidemics of new water and river maintenance water supply) multi-purpose dam
infectious disease. It provides directions on planning and operating detailed plans for
disaster management agencies including central administrative organisations and local
governments by presenting solutions, which enable comprehensive operating national
disaster and security management policies and key tasks every 5 years. 6. Extreme Drought Response and Improvement - Focusing on 2015 Drought, Taewoong Kim, Donghyuk Park, Korean Society of Civil Engineers
63(9), pp25-35 (2015)
Table 6. Major measures related to drought among national plan on the safety management
2.1 Innovative Smart Water Management technology
Measures Main contents
solution proposed
• promote R&D related to drought prevention such as water use and saving To solve the various water-related problems and improve the efficiency of water manage-
management guideline, drought evaluation and prediction model, developing water ment in Seosan, K-water considered various technologies. Recently, Information and
use management system by facility, developing water saving program, quantifying Communication Technology (ICT) had been adopted to maximise efficiency in the process
drought season prediction and warning criteria. of water production and distribution (Byeon et al., 2015). In Korea, there are many projects
• Establish midterm and long-term plan to alleviate the habitual drought afflicted area. working together to develop a Smart Water Grid (SWG) (Byeon et al.,2015) and technolo-
Prevention
The plan includes study of efficient rainwater management, efficient management
gies that enable sustainable water supply by connecting water sources and optimising water
of water resource facility including dams, securing diverse water resources (ground
treatment based on ICT support this effort.
water and sea water desalination).
• improve drought management system and consider water supply prospect and
current status of storage dam by water systems. Water management using ICT, also known as Smart Water Management (SWM), enables
sustainable water supply to every citizen by water resource monitoring, problem diagnosis,
• Vitalize research and investigation such as accumulating base line data, expanding efficiency improvement and harmonising management, resolving many water related chal-
research facilities, R&D for preventing drought by disaster management agency lenges (ITU, 2014; Heland et al., 2015).
• Manage potential drought area. Secure optimal pumping equipment, weather
analysis, observe growth and development of crop and etc.
Preparation • Support water source exploitation in drought concerns phase, implementation of
drought measures such as water saving cultivation in agriculture and transform to
drought measures promoting system.
• Real time monitoring on drought and establish reaction plan. Construct alliance
between departments.
• Establish drought reaction system; operating disaster countermeasures

headquarters, emergency duty and etc.
• Rapid dissemination of disaster warning and forecast including PR via media
• Proceed emergency measures such as temporal use of another water facility
including agricultural water, industrial water and power water and utilise ground
water wells not in use, emergency water supply facility, water purification system,
simplified wide area water supply, private water works and etc., secure equipment
Response
and personnel (military, firefighting) for emergency water supply and drinking water
manufacturer and etc.
• Classify 1st (10%~30% restriction on water supply) to 4th (stop supplying water)
stage considering local condition, and establish and proceed step water supply
countermeasures for each department and local government
• Activate executive measures to minimize damage and spreading of drought
• Supply emergency drinkable water to island area using guard ship
• Support damaged crops restoration expenditure and installation of water pump and
wells.
Restoration
• Investigate and restore drought damage, complement drought management system
and make water supply countermeasures
2. Smart Water Management Solution
The Smart Seosan City project was established in January 2016 when the municipality of Seosan
city asked K-water (who operated the local waterworks system in Seosan city) for a smart metering
system for the local water supply system as a drought measure. Since 2015 the Boryeong Dam,
which supplies water to Seosan City, had reached a water storage minimum of 21%, resulting in
the need for urgent measures to be taken. Seosan city invested approximately 500 million won in
this project (equivalent to approximately USD 467,500), for K-water to integrate ICT technologies Figure 18. SWM concept map
(Source: K-water)
such as smart metering, wireless data transmission and decision making system to reduce water
leakage rate of pipelines as a way to secure water in Seosan city.
2.2 Introduction of SWM in Seosan city 2.2.1 Remote metering and data transmitting
Prior to the request from Seosan City, K-water was operating smart metering as a pilot project The smart meters convert the measured flow data into electrical signals and transmit them
in the Goryeng area (from January to May 2015) when they were consigned Seosan’s local on a timely basis (hourly, daily and monthly). They perform precise flow measurements by
water supply. K-water suggested smart metering to Seosan city and the city as a solution sensing 8 times per an impeller pump rotation. Smart meters installed at the household level
to their drought concerns, and Seosan City accepted the suggestion. The aim of the project transmit data to the waterworks server through a wireless communication network and moni-
was to construct a smart water management system to increase water supply for Seosan by toring system (remote indication center-> base station-> remote system) automatically trans-
improving the revenue water ratio through using remote metering, smart meters and ICT, and mitting metering information such as hourly, daily, monthly water consumption.
in the process to improve customer satisfaction of the water supply.
The data-transfer procedure of a smart metering system consists of digital meters installed at
the end user sites. These digital meters are connected to the remote transmitter through direct
Unlike a human read meter, which relies on a person to manually check the data on a metre on wires. Remote transmitters transmit the collected data to the base station through wireless
site, smart metres deliver a user’s hourly water usage via digital meter (smart meter) and wireless communication such as pagers. The base station transmits the received data to the server and
communication technology (ICT). It is used in revenue water ratio management and remote metering. the monitoring system through the internet service. This final step helps system managers to
acquire and analyse the data on the web page conveniently.
Figure 19. Outline of smart metering system (Source: K-water)
Table 7. Smart devices of Seosan SWM
The digital meter converts measured flow data into electrical signals
and transmits them on a time basis.
Figure 20. Data Transfer Procedure of Smart Metering System (Source: K-water)
Digital Meter Function
-  Measuring data: accumulated flow rate, flow rate
Wireless communication services used in this project use long distance wireless transmis-
- Detection function: overload, backflow, leakage and unused
sion. Long distance wireless transmission has various characteristics and strong points such
- Data communication
as wireless coverage of a wide area, clear wireless environment without crossing and inter-
The Remote Transmitter collects data from the meter every hour ference, cheap modem cost, low communication fees, low electricity use, compact size and
and transmits the data every 4 hours. adaptability to various IoT/M2M.
Remote Function
Transmitter - Direct radio path with base station by 1W high-power transmission
- 19Ah capacity battery enables 8 years run-time 2.2.2 Sub District Metering Area (SDMA) system construction
(2Ah /yr. power consumption)
based on smart meter
- LCD display for meter reading
Through using smart meters and DMA subdivision, a sustainable scientific quantity manage-
ment system is constructed. From April 20th to July 20th 2016, this project constructed
1,550 units of smart meters, 30 base stations, 9 SDMAs and monitoring systems and propelled
• Wide area wireless transmission coverage with long distance pilot operation and revenue water ratio improvement projects for the following two months
(Transmission distance: approximately 1.5km) (July – September 2016). DMA subdivision enables water information data taken by the smart
Base Station
• Low operation cost meter to find leakage points easily and investigates abnormal data through analysing user’s
• Low power consumption, ultra-compact, easy to apply in IoT / M2M hourly consumption pattern to find the user’s interior leakage. It shows smart metering data
can be used in a bigger area beyond metering.
The monitoring system shows the connection status and end-user This smart technology enables the development of revenue water ratio analysis from a
Monitoring meter gauge on a real-time bases. The gauge reading data can be monthly to a daily basis and extends the minimum flow during night point from 3 points to
System acquired and analysed hourly, daily, and monthly. The monitoring 12 points. It also allows the division of existing DMA (District Metering Area) systems with
system calculates supplied water volume and provides information Tele-Metering (TM) equipment and analogue meters to SDMA (Sub District Metering Area)
on leakage within the water supply network. system (as described below). As a result, existing 2 units are subdivided to 9 units, creating
highly data accuracy. SDMA monitors not only allow DMA inflow, but also numerous minimum
Source: K-water
flows during the night and they manage the daily revenue water ration to ensure an effective 2.2.3 Leakage analysis using smart meter data
and quick response to leakage. Nonmetal pipes were buried in the target area, so correlating leakage detection by installing
leakage sensors outside of the pipes was inefficient. As a result, a new concept of leakage
Table 8. Comparison between (existing) DMA system and (Improved) SDMA quantity management system
detection sensors was deployed, in which the sensor is inserted into the pipe using water as
Before (DMA system) After (SDMA) its medium. This type of sensor has the advantage of enabling high precision in a low flow
Metering area 1 DMA 1 DMA + SDMA Subdivision velocity with a semi-conductor sensor and it also reduces leakages with a detection and
management (500 ~ 1500 meters/BL) (About 200~300 meters/SDMA) warning function. In addition to this it enables remote meter reading with a built-in commu-
• 1 inflowTM minimum flow during night nication function.
Quantity • Monitor not only DMA inflow, but also numerous
monitoring
management SDMA minimum flow during night
• Monthly revenue water ratio management
(leakage
• Difficulty in quantity management including
• Daily revenue water ratio management 2.2.4 Construction of water pressure management system
restoration) • Effective and quick control on leakage
leakage detection with data
By combining smart metering systems with decompression remote control technology it
enables the construction of a water pressure management system, which considers the
consumption pattern of the user. In order to operate without a booster pump in some of the
hillside areas, which were expected to have problems with water supply, K-water installed a
Concept map Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV) to provide a small decompression amount in every Pressure
Management Area (PMA). This enabled us to control decompression in the future based on the
pattern analysis of the users.
The system construction consisted of three stages. In the first stage, data on water use was
acquired at the critical point of the hillside where problems with water supply were expected
Source: K-water
when decompression is operated. In the second stage, based on the data, pattern use is
analysed and time-based decompression measures were constructed. In the third stage,
the pressure is adjusted using an automatic remote control with SCADA, according to the
season, holiday period and time of day and flexibly reacts to any water supply problem in
the hillside area.
Figure 22. Diagram for water pressure management

Source: K-water
The Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV) is operated by dividing target areas (DMAs) where the water
pressure is high (490.3 Kilopascals or more) into four water pressure management areas (turning
them into Sub District Metering Areas ‘SDMAs’). Water pressure is then decompressed based on
each SDMA characteristic, making it possible to prevent pipe breakage due to high water pres-
sure in advance. In addition to this, the amount of background leakage due to unnecessarily high
pressure is reduced, which is effective in improving the flow rate.
Figure 21. Scientific quantity management by DMA subdivision

(Source: K-water)
Table 9. Pressure Reducing Valve Operation

(Unit: Kilopascal)
3. Outputs & Outcomes
Control First inflow
SDMA Second outflow pressure Decompression
method pressure
Time 637.4 daytime(03:30~24: 30, 21hr) 490.3 ↓147.1 3.1 Economic outputs
PMA 1 SDMA A1
control (EL.22) night(23:30~03: 30, 3hr) 392.3 ↓196.1 3.1.1 Decrease in leakage
SDMA A2
After applying smart metering and the SDMA system to the target area, the revenue water
Remote daytime(03:30~24: 30, 21hr) 539.4 ↓98.1
637.4 ratio reached 90%. This was an increase of 20% compared to the first half of 2016 and of 19%
PMA 2 SDMA A4 control
(EL.30) compared to that of the previous year.
night(23:30~03: 30, 3hr) 490.3 ↓147.1
SDMA A6
Remote 637.4 daytime(03:30~24: 30, 21hr) 392.3 ↓245.2
PMA 3 SDMA A3
control (EL.20) Night (23:30-03: 30, 3hr) 3.5 ↓294.2
Time 784.5 Daytime (03:30-24: 30, 21hr) 637.4 ↓147.1
PMA 4 SDMA A5
control (EL.5) Night (24:30-03: 30, 3hr) 6.0 ↓196.1
Source: K-water
<(before)water pressure management: average <(improved) before water pressure management:

pressure 6.1kgf/cm2> average pressure 4.4kgf/cm2>
Figure 24. Revenue water ratio before and after smart meter (2016)
(Source: K-water)
Leakage detection technology in three of the SDMAs found leakages in seven of the units and
restored them. As a result, the revenue water ratio in the mentioned SDMAs improved from
17% to 39%.
Table 10. Revenue water ratio in SDMAs
Source: K-water
3.1.2 Inner leakage detection of users and restoration

Figure 23. Comparison between before and after water pressure management Time-based use pattern analysis of the smart meter monitoring system enabled two cases of
(Source: K-water)
interior leakage for the user to be found and restored. As a result, each user saved 55% of water
use and 70% of water cost.
2.2.5 Government budget support
Operation of this project was enabled by investment of Seosan city and supported by central
government through their drought budget. This project cost 497 million won (approximately
USD 464,600) in total, with the purchase of smart meters costing 88 million won (USD 82,000),
remote monitoring center (to monitor indicators) costing 154 million won (USD 144,000),
replacement and installation 129 million won (USD 120,000), Sub-DMA building 70 million won
(USD 65,000) and construction control system 59 million won (USD 55,000).
Figure 25. Inner leakage detection of users and restoration

(Source: K-water)
Table 11. Economic outcome of inner leakage detection by user In addition to this, as the target area for this project was based in a hillside area where the
Customer A Customer B households are quite far apart it was originally too costly for the civil service to visit each
Usage Usage Fee Usage Usage Fee traditional meter themselves to monitor the water use. This meant that customers were
(m3/month) (1000₩/month) (m3/month) (1000₩/month) required to monitor the meters themselves taking them a lot of time and effort. By intro-
ducing remote metering it enabled improved monitoring of the meters by the civil service,
Before Restoration 60 67.2 59 65.4
and as a result the customer satisfaction has increased.
After Restoration 25 18.4 28 21.0
Effect ↓35 (↓58%) ↓49.8 (↓73%) ↓31 (↓52%) ↓44.4 (↓68%)
Source: K-water 3.2.2 Enablers
The first success factor in enabling SWM projects is Korea's advanced ICT technology. Korea
has many small and medium-sized enterprises with excellent technology, and it has a very
3.1.3 Find Error in inflow and outflow of distributing reservoir comfortable base for constructing SWM based on Internet of Things (IoT) because it has a
In the process of revenue water analysis in each SDMA, the result comparing distributing dense communication network in all regions.
reservoir inflow/outflow rate and distributing inflow/outflow meters found a fault that the
meter indicated 430 m3 of over supply per day (about 70%). These meters were replaced and The second factor to succeed Smart Water Management in Seosan city is enabling environment
the over-estimated 50 thousand m3 of water which had been regarded as water purchase by include policies, laws, plans that create an environment for integrated water management.
multiregional water supply in the past was recaptured. As a result the revenue water ratio Korea has the national and local government plan to respond disaster such as drought. There-
of Seosan city increased by 0.2% and the revenue water profit was 20 million won (approxi- fore, governments could allocate funds whose purpose is to adopt smart water management
mately USD 17,400). and address water shortage in Seosan city. Consequently, good governance make it possible
to implement water solutions successfully.
Table 12. Comparative measurement of distributing reservoir’s inflow and outflow (measurement: m3/hr.)
Before replacement After replacement Error(C) Error rate (%)

of metres (A) of metres (B) (A-B) (C/B) 3.2.3 Barriers
Measurement of 1. The initial investment cost is higher than the existing facility investment.
391.7 363.3 28.4 7.8% Seosan SWM project is relatively expensive in comparison to traditional meter installation
Inflow(m3)
practices since existing meters need to be replaced with smart meters and additional remote
Source: K-water
transmitters are required. For example, in the case of a remote transmitter, an additional
100,000 won (USD 91) is added per water service connection, and the cost of a smart meter (13 ~
15 mm diameter) is 50,000 won (USD 46), which is 50% higher than a general meter (30,000 won
(USD 27)). The higher cost is because large-scale demand or production of smart meters has
yet to be achieved, and thus production costs have not decreased due to economies of scale.
As such, the installation cost for smart meters will likely reduce as demand increases. In Korea,
as large-scale water facility managers such as Seoul (supplying water to 2 million households)
are planning to install smart meters, this problem will be resolved in the mid to long term.
In addition, 20 remote base stations were installed as part of the Seosan SWM project because
the telecommunication infrastructure was not installed, and an RF communication network
was used. This cost 1,000 won which is similar to the labour cost for metering ranging from
Figure 26. Calibration procedure on distributing reservoir inflow rate 1,000 to 1,300 won per household. The smart water management business, which is currently
Source: K-water
being built, will ultimately lower the communication cost to 300 ~ 400 won / household by
building the IoT (Internet of Things) network.
Figure 26 (1) shows the error in the initial meters installed. You can see this by the gap in
the inflow before and after the replacement of the incorrect meters. Figure 26(2) shows that 2. We should consider the use of existing metering staff.
the replaced meters are measuring the data correctly by comparing the correct meters after With the success of the Seosan SWM project, the role of metering staff became unnecessary,
replacement. but the task of reducing metering staff in a short time period of time was difficult. As a result,
half of the existing metering staff had been used continuously to provide metering services
3.2 Social outcomes including both manual and remote meter reading at the same time. Gradually, the existing
metering staffs will be utilized for improving customer services.
3.2.1 Increase in customer satisfaction
By switching to using remote meters for water use and quality, customers’ satisfaction has 3. Low water price in Korea
been improved as it has become possible to handle complaints promptly with surveyors The water price in Korea is less than about 1,000 won per ton, and the installation cost of the
responding to every customer concern and also by providing additional water quality manage- smart meter and remote transmitter (approximately 200,000 won, USD 18] is not economical
ment services such as the inspection of customers’ indoor pipes. enough to rapidly expand investment.
4. Link with the Sustainable Development 4.1.1 Water-supply efficiency of municipal sector
Among the target 6.4, water-supply efficiency of the municipal sector is presented as efficiently
Goals providing water to domestic water users and the percentage of water withdrawal from water
supply facilities (for example, water distribution efficiency, pipe loses, etc.). Measurement
equation is as follows.
Seosan Smart City is linked to sustainable development goals 6 (clean water and sanitation)
and 11 (sustainable cities and communities). Table 13 lists the specific targets within these
SDGs that are addressed by aspects of Seosan Smart City.
Table 13. A list of the SDGs and their specific targets that relate to Seosan Smart City - Mwe = Efficiency on water supply of municipal sector
- Mud = distribution of local water user(m3)
Sustainable Development Goals and Targets
- Vm = water intake of municipal sector (public water pipe and etc.)(m3)
SDG 1: Zero poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
This indicator provides information about water resource’s economic, social use efficiency
1.5 By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability (e.g. water usage in major economic parts or loss of distribution networks). This indicator
to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters. measures not only the outputs of productive water use in municipal sector but also water
SDG 6: Clean water & sanitation use loss. By measuring them, it deals with the target aimed at, ‘increasing major water use
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all efficiency in every filed’.
6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
6.4 By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of
freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
4.2 Economic net profit occurs
The operating results from the pilot project show a 20% improvement in the revenue water
6.b Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management
ratio and 190 thousand m3 of water per year decrease in leakage. This results in a benefit of
SDG 8: Promote sustainable economic growth 610 million won (about USD 590,000) for the next 8 years with the cost benefit expected to
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all increase in net benefit (reflecting the pilot result, it is assumed 20% of improvement in revenue
8.2 Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, water ratio and 809 won/m3 of water cost).
including through a focus on high-value added and labor-intensive sectors
SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities This result applied facility investment [500 million won (USD 455 thousand), purchase control
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable system, smart meter and etc.], communication expenses [660 won (USD 0.6)/unit], repair
11.5 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the and maintenance cost (2.5 million one per year) as cost, and reflected leakage reduction
direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, (water purchase), human metering cost (600 won/unit), leakage exploration cost [11 million
with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations won (USD 10,000) per year including service and etc.], meter change cost [54 thousand won
SDG 12: Sustainable consumption (USD 49)/unit] as benefit.
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
5. Lessons Learned and Conclusions
4.1 Goal 6 and target 6.4
Goal 6 of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ensures availability 5.1 Lessons Learned
and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Target 6.4 of Goal 6 aims at
1) Governance plays an important role in project enforcement
sustainable withdrawals and supply of fresh water to solve water scarcity problems including
The planning and execution of the drought policy, existing laws and systems played an
an increase in water-use efficiency across all sectors by 2030 and a decrease in the number of
important role in the implementation and support of this project. In addition to this, govern-
people who suffer from water scarcity.
ment budget support for the project facilitated its implementation.
Water-use efficiency and water stress levels are indicators to measure target 6.4. Water-use
The Framework Act on The Management of Disasters and Safety encouraged the government
efficiency shows changes in water-use efficiency over time and water stress level measures the
and public institutions to plan drought measures and the Countermeasures Against Natural
percentage of water withdrawal in available freshwater resource. Among them, the water-use
Disasters Act enforced the federal government and local governments to restrict water supply
efficiency indicator is related to this case. It can be defined as a change in quantity produced
and electricity generation and to maintain drought-overcoming facilities. Without these
in major sectors of whole water withdrawal over time. According to ISIC, the four major
government Acts in place, this project may not have been supported.
sectors presenting water-use efficiency are 1) Agriculture, forest and fishery, 2) manufacturing,
construction, mining industry and stone-quarrying industry, 3) electric industry, 4) municipal
Also, a comprehensive statutory plan on long-term water resource management, is intended
sector. This indicator embraces agriculture, industry, energy and municipal sector and can be
to strengthen the establishment and promotion of smart water management systems
used as a tool for detailed analysis for national plan or decision-making.
for the purpose of securing stable water resources and efficiently managing them. The
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Chungcheoungnam-do water resource comprehensive plan established in 2012 to manage water management techniques. Therefore to solve water problems such as water shortage,
water demand during drought periods also assisted, as it encouraged enhancing the existing implementing smart water management is beneficial.
supply management. According to this plan, leakage reduction for multiregional water supply,
enhanced water demand management, rationalising water cost, waste and sewage water reuse
and alternative water development are all key priorities. In short, this project was enabled by 5.2 Next Steps
drought measures and plans established by Seosan city through laws and regulation. Korea is currently constructing a low-cost Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)7 communication network
that is optimized for the Internet of things. It is expected that communication costs of about
KRW 1,000 (USD 0.9)/ month/water supply will decline to about KRW 400 (USD 0.36) /month/
2) Early inputs cost occurs but profitability increases in the water supply. Secondly, we have analyzed the big data acquired from many smart meters
long term (instruments) and developed and applied software that supports decision-making. This soft-
Seosan smart water management required early facility investment and operating costs but in ware is used for monitoring and decision making to provide information on water quantity
the long term, increase in net profit is expected. At the beginning, smart meters and repeater and quality, water pressure to improve decision-making in the operation of the water facilities.
installations will cost a lot but in the middle and long-term, profit will be increased through Despite the low water price in Korea, as the smart water market continues to become more
a reduction in metering personnel, meter change cost and reduced leakage detection cost. active with many companies competing in the market, it is expected that technology costs will
This project assumes an average revenue water ratio of 87.7% for eight years and based on decrease in the future, enabling the costs of SWM to be recovered more rapidly.
this, calculated input cost is 566 million won (approximately USD 492,200) and its benefit is
expected as 1,179 million won (approximately USD $102,500). Therefore the Cost Benefit ratio K-water has been promoting SWM business by entering overseas based on experience of SWM
is close to 2:1. construction in Korea. In that case, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is conducting an SWM
TA project to build an SMW Pilot in four countries in South Asia, including Bangladesh and
The investment cost for this project can be recovered in about four years. The smart meter India, with about USD 1.25 million for four years. Dhaka is in a serious situation where the
is a battery-based technology, and economic analysis is conducted based on the 8-year groundwater level drops by one meter per year due to the water shortage caused by many
replacement cycle. This means that it is possible to recover the investment cost within four leaks and uncontrolled use of groundwater (80% of the total water supply depends on ground-
years after the initial installation, and the net benefit will be generated for the remaining four water). To overcome this problem, the Bangladesh government has invested heavily in pipe-
years (see figure 27). line facilities through ADB's large-scale assistance, but there are still many leaks due to the lack
of DMA system and measuring sensors to analyse leaks.
K-water has introduced smart meter technology to build a sustainable water management system
at low cost (due to strong investment of Seosan City and supported by central government), and
installed a smart meter in a deep tube well to build a real-time flow monitoring system. As a
result, ADB and the local government of Bangladesh have gained considerable gains, with results
measured and monitored through the use of smart meters. In addition, Bangladesh is hoping for
a sustainable partnership with K-water at the completion of the pilot project, and it is expected
that K-water will participate in the consulting service of the water supply facilities of Dhaka City.
ADB also plans to expand K-water's SWM TA project to double its current size, initially expanding
from four cities in four South Asian countries to seven cities in six countries.
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Annex 1: Economic Analysis Annex 2: SWM Devices
[Condition: 20% increase in revenue water ratio (Average revenue water ratio reached 87.7%), Digital Meter
sales price and period of project: 8 years] The digital meter converts measured flow data into electrical signals and transmits them on
a time basis. It performs precise flow measurement by sensing 8 times per an impeller pump
- Net profit (total savings): about 610 million won/8 years (Cost 570 million won, Benefit rotation. The outer shell of the meter made of brass mechanically wraps around the opera-
1.18 billion won), B/C: 2.1 tion part and the flow chamber. This shell is resistant to external impact and low temperature
Total 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year 5th year 6th year 7th year 8th year during the winter season.
(million won) 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Rubber packing (O-ring), ultrasonic welding, and epoxy molding prevents water infiltration.
1.Incremental cost (A) 611 497 15 15 16 16 17 17 17
Operators can easily check device conditions, flow rate, and functional overview on the liquid
Subtotal 497 497 - - - - - - - crystal display (LCD) panel.
Purchase smart meter 88 88
Purchase remote
154 154
indication center
Replacement and
Facility investment 129 129
installation cost
SDMA construction 70 70
Monitoring center 40 40
Purchase S/W for
16 16
monitoring system
Figure 0. External View of a Digital Meter
Communication cost 660won/unit/month 95 12.6 12.9 13.2 13.5 13.9 14.2 14.6
Repair and
0.5% of investment 19 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.9 The specifications of the digital meter are as follows.
maintenance cost
1.Incremental cost(present price)(A’) 566 475 14 14 13 13 13 12 12 Table 0. Digital Meter Specifications
Installation cost 475 475 Description
Communication cost 76 - 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 Function • Measuring data: accumulated flow rate, flow rate
• Detection function: overload, backflow, leakage and unused
Repair and maintenance cost 15 - 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
• Data communication
2. Improvement benefit(B) 1,456 86 186 192 211 201 192 191 196 Advantages • Application of Semi-conductor sensors for high precision in low flow velocity
Revenue water profit In sales price 1,212 78 157 159 160 162 164 165 167 • No resistance against gear rotations of impeller
• Built-in communication function enables remote meter reading
Saving on metering Metering read(60%
53 7.0 7.2 7.4 7.5 7.7 7.9 8.1 • Leakage detection and warning function to reduce leakage rate
personnel of service budget)
• Triple waterproof design of operating parts
Saving on meter Existing meter • “Unused” function for an one elderly person household
90 2.2 9.3 13.5 29.7 17.9 6.7 4.0 6.9
replacement replacement cost
Technical Sensor • MR sensor type
Saving on leakage Data
Own operating cost 102 6.2 12.7 13.0 13.3 13.6 13.9 14.3 14.6 Battery • 3 .0V, 3,800mA (life expectancy: 8 years)
detection cost
• Nominal temperature: 0.3 to 30 °C
2.Improvement profit(present price)(B’) 1,179 82 170 168 176 160 146 139 137
• Nominal pressure: 0.3 to 10 bar
Revenue water profit 981 74 144 139 134 129 125 120 116 • Precision: Q1: ± 5 %, Q2, Q3: ± 2%
Saving on metering personnel 42 - 6.4 6.3 6.1 6.0 5.9 5.8 5.7 Specifications • Display range: 0.0001 to 99999,9999 (m3)
Saving on meter replacement cost 74 2.1 8.5 11.8 24.8 14.3 5.1 2.9 4.8 • Installation direction: horizontal
• Housing: CAC 203 (brass casting)
Saving on leakage detection cost 82 5.9 11.6 11.3 11.1 10.9 10.6 10.4 10.2
• Diameter: 15 to 250 mm
3.Net profit(present price)(B’-A’) 613 -393 156 154 163 147 134 127 125 Communication • DCPLC method, pulse output
Differences between mechanical (pulse) type and digital type are summarized in Figure 1-4.
Remote Transmitter Table 3. Remote Transmitter Specifications

The main characteristics of remote transmitter are as follows. Description
• Wireless transmission of meter reading data to base station through two-way radio
paging network
Characteristics Function
• 24-hour operational
• Minimized power consumption (battery use available)
• Reduced operation costs, Improved transmission performance, and Improved
• The Remote Transmitter collects data from the meter every
Advantage communication reliability
hour and transmits the data every 4 hours.
• Direct radio path with base station by 1W high-power • Dedicated frequency by common carrier without interference
transmission • F requency band
• 19Ah capacity battery enables 8 years run-time (2Ah /yr. power - Tx: 923.55Mhz to 924.4505Mhz (40 channels)
consumption) Wireless - Rx: 318.1375Mhz to 319.1375Mhz (40channels)
• LCD display for meter reading •O
utput power: 30dBm (1W)
•R
eceive sensitivity: less than -115dBm
Battery • 3.6V/19Ah lithium primary battery
Power consumption • L ess than 2Ah/year
Table 1. Remote Transmitter Specifications
Technical Data Display • Graphic LCD
Description
• Housing: ABS
Function • Wireless transmission of meter reading data to BS through two-way radio paging
Exterior • Weight: 390g
network
• 24-hour operational • Dimension: 120mm * 160mm * 40mm
• Minimized power consumption (battery use available) •M
eter reading data transmission by wireless
Advantages • Reduced operation costs, Improved transmission performance, and Improved Feature connection
communication reliability •R
eading data display through LCD
• Dedicated frequency by common carrier without interference Installation • Wired connection with digital meter, wall mounting
Technical Data Wireless • Frequency Band
- Tx: 923.55Mhz to 924.4505Mhz (40 channels)
- Rx: 318.1375Mhz to 319.1375Mhz (40channels) Base Station
• Output power: 30dBm (1W) Characteristics of the base station are summarized below.
• Receive sensitivity: less than -115dBm
Battery • 3.6V/19Ah lithium primary battery Characteristics
Power • Less than 2Ah/year
Display • Graphic LCD
Exterior • Housing: acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS)
• Weight: 390g • Wide area wireless transmission coverage with long distance
• Dimension: 120mm * 160mm * 40mm * Transmission distance: approximately 1.5km
• Low operation cost
Features • Meter reading data transmission by wireless connection
• Low power consumption, ultra-compact, easy to apply in IoT / M2M
• Reading data display through LCD
Installation • Wired connection with digital meter, Wall mounting
Table 4. Base station Specifications
Description
• High power radio frequency (less then 5W) allows wide base station service coverage
Function
• Connects between transmitter and monitoring system through wireless paging network
• M2M network cost competitiveness achieved thanks to inexpensive RF MODEM
• Lower price service cost than any other wireless solutions
Advantage
• Extremely low battery power consumption
• Micro-size and cheap IoT/M2M device application
• Frequency band
- Tx: 318.1375Mhz to 319.1375Mhz(40 channels)
Wireless - Rx: 923.55Mhz to 924.4505Mhz(40 channels)
specification Figure 2. Current Metering Status
• Output power: Max 5W
• Receive sensitivity: less than -115dBm
Technical Data • AC220±20% / DC 12V 45~65Hz

Power
• Power Consumption: 33.4W
• RF channel: Rx 1ch, Tx 1ch
Others • Network: ethernet (10 base T, TCP/IP)
• Dimension: 220mm * 360mm * 85mm
Installation • Depending on the field situation
Monitoring System
The monitoring system shows connection status and end-user meter gauge on the real-time
bases. The gauge reading data can be acquired and analyzed hourly, daily, and monthly. The
monitoring system calculates supplied water volume and provides information on leakage
Figure 3. Hourly Usage Data
within the water supply network. As the system utilizes graphical user interface (GUI) map orig-
inated from the Google map, it is easy to use and identify operation conditions on web pages. If
smart metering can be implemented in all the district metered areas (DMAs) and/or sub-DMAs
(SDMAs) analytical data on non-revenue water (NRW) and minimum night flow(NMF) can be
acquired daily.
Details of the monitoring system are as follows.
Table 5. Monitoring System Specifications
Description
• Metering status
• hourly / daily / monthly
• Statistics
- hourly / daily / monthly
- daily peak / monthly peak
- over last year or month
- daily average / monthly average / yearly average
Function
• Failure status
- meter status / reading status / connection status
• Customer management
- Customer management Figure 4. Customer Usage Details
- Local group management
• Systems management The percentage of secondary industry was lower than that of Chungcheungnam-do (32.8%)
- Admin access history and the percentage of tertiary industry was higher than that of Chungcheungnam-do (66.7%).
- Environments configurations
Within tertiary industry, wholesale and retail (13%), lodging and food industry (11.1%), educa-
• Usage pattern Analysis tional service (7%), hygienic and social welfare service industry (6.3%) took largest portions.
Advantage - hourly / daily / monthly
• Detection of water leakage
K-water (the Korean Water Resources Corporation)
is the governmental agency for comprehensive water resource development in the Republic
of Korea, with a large pool of practical engineering expertise regarding water resources that
has been championing Smart Water Management for the past decade.
IWRA (the International Water Resources Association)

are a non-profit, non-governmental, educational organisation established in 1971, providing
a global knowledge based forum for bridging disciplines and geographies by connecting
professionals, students, individuals, corporations and institutions concerned with the
sustainable use of the world’s water resources.
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This publication was prepared by K-water and IWRA in collaboration with various research
institutes, water utilities, universities, government agencies, non-government organisations
and other experts in Smart Water Management. It was made possible thanks to the financial
support of K-water.
K-water website: www.kwater.or.kr

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SWM Project website: www.iwra.org/swm
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South Korea Seosan

Table of Contents Summary

Table 1. Population and urbanization rate in Korea

Year 1970 1975 1980 1990 2000 2010 2015

1.1.3 Deterioration of water management facility

1.1.2 Population growth and urbanisation

1.2.2 Population Growth and Seosan City’s Economy

1.2.3 Water supply, drainage facility and water source

Multiregional water supply

Local water supply system

Table 2. Pipe conduit and hydrant in Palbong

2. Boryeong, Seosan, Yesan, Hongseong, Taean, Seochun, Dangjin, Chungyang

1.3 Challenge description

Figure 6. The area of P-A and P-B DMA (Source: K-water)

Table 3. Regional precipitation in 2015

[Mar. 2015] [Jun. 2015] [Nov. 2015]

TABLE 4. Regional precipitation in 2014-2015

Figure 11. Inflow rate of multi-purpose dam in 2015

1.3.3 Low revenue water rate and difficulties in metering

1.4 Laws and systems related to drought

Box 4. Laws, systems, plans and policies related to

Order Drought situation (criteria: water supply) Reaction plan

• Establish drought reaction system; operating disaster countermeasures

2. Smart Water Management Solution

Figure 19. Outline of smart metering system (Source: K-water)

Table 7. Smart devices of Seosan SWM

Figure 22. Diagram for water pressure management

Figure 21. Scientific quantity management by DMA subdivision

Table 9. Pressure Reducing Valve Operation

<(before)water pressure management: average <(improved) before water pressure management:

Table 10. Revenue water ratio in SDMAs

3.1.2 Inner leakage detection of users and restoration

Figure 25. Inner leakage detection of users and restoration

Before replacement After replacement Error(C) Error rate (%)

Annex 1: Economic Analysis Annex 2: SWM Devices

Remote Transmitter Table 3. Remote Transmitter Specifications

Table 4. Base station Specifications

Technical Data • AC220±20% / DC 12V 45~65Hz

Table 5. Monitoring System Specifications

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• Establish drought reaction system; operating disaster countermeasures

Technical Data • AC220±20% / DC 12V 45~65Hz