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Introducing Blue-Valueoptimise groundwater in arid areas

Simon van den Dries

Co-founder

World Water-Tech Innovation Summit | London, February 21, 2018

Groundwater supplies ½ of all drinking water in the world

38% of all irrigation for food comes from groundwater

80% of certain groundwater reserves have been consumed in the last 50 years!

Global water scarcity is a fast-growing shared problem

Mekonnen & Hoekstra, 2016

Groundwater depletion... affects everyone!

Optimisation of groundwater usage is essential

Shortages in drinking water

Damage to industries

and infrastructures

Food scarcity

Groundwater lacks regulation, valuation and information

Weak governments, social resistance

Groundwater is undervalued

Current available data• Manual

• Infrequent

• Inconsistent

• Incomplete

Amit Dave/Reuters

Blue-Value

Vision: All water resources connected

Mission: Valuable information to all groundwater stakeholders

Model: Software-based service, partnerships, white label

By combining intelligently:• IoT data• Earth Observation

Technology enablers

Fast growth in IoT

Environmental images anywhereNear real-time water data anywhere

New Earth observation

Sentinel-2 image, ESA

Examples of go-to market / customers

Product/service:

• Subscription-based information solution

• (White-label) software with integrated Earth observation data service

Customer / go-to-market Information requirements Benefits

Governmental agencies Water abstraction, illegal irrigation Increased revenues, data collection savings, enforced policies

Industrial companies Optimisation, environmental effects, stewardship Automated reporting, global standards, risk mitigation

Hydro-engineers Accurate, fresh data, model inputs Better model outputs, increased revenues

Sensor manufacturers Service, contextual information New business model, stronger customer relationships

Information to create new groundwater value

New business models

Cost savings on data

collection

Better and enforced policies

Water optimisation

Sustainablegroundwatermanagement

Simon van den Dries IoT & Telecommunications

Sabine de MillianoGeoinformation & Software

Koen VerberneSpace Technologies & Service Development

Founders

Partners

Contact details

Simon L. van den Driessimon@blue-value.comwww.blue-value.comTel: + 31 6 460 744 74The Netherlands

linkedin.com/in/simonvandendries