Digital business twins and AI are reshaping water infrastructure planning

It's great to be recognised by the WWT Water Industry Awards Utility Week for this excellent work and to see that our collaboration with Scottish Water has been shortlisted as a finalist for the "Digitalisation Project of the Year 2025"

Digitalisation Project of the Year 2025

Digitalisation – the fourth industrial revolution - is driving a step-change in the water industry. Sophisticated data analytics, cloud computing and artificial intelligence are transforming the sector, enabling efficiency gains, customer benefit, safer working, cost reductions and more sustainable outcomes. BMA has been recognised for measurable progress in transforming the water sector through digital innovation and data-driven insights. Together with leading UK water company, Scottish Water, our digitalisation initiative, "Transforming Future Supply Resilience through Whole-Systems Digital Adaptive Planning" has been recognised for a Water Industry Award in this category.

Transforming Future Supply Resilience through Whole-Systems Digital Adaptive Planning

Over the past year, the BMA team has collaborated with Scottish Water's visionary leadership to successfully implement our Decisio™ Water Systems Digital Business Twin across all all 189 water resource zones. 

Scottish Water had faced a critical challenge: climate change and population shifts threatened a potential supply-demand deficit greater than 250Ml/d by 2050. This wasn't just about addressing current needs - it required rethinking how water system planning works at a fundamental level.  By embedding BMA's whole-systems digital approach, Scottish Water is now in direct control of their digital whole-systems planning capability, enabling them to make successful data-driven decisions about critical infrastructure investments.

The timing couldn't be more relevant - with 2025 rainfall currently tracking similar to the 1975 drought year profile in England and Wales, the Decisio™ planning platform's auto-generation capabilities allow companies to rapidly identify and evaluate alternative interventions to maintain supply resilience even during challenging conditions.

We're incredibly proud of the team's work on this transformative project.