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Digital water technology company, InfoTiles, is taking on a two-day endurance challenge to mark World Water Day 2023 and acknowledge the importance of the United Nations Water Conference.

It is nothing new that the pipeline network has a huge backlog in Norway. There will soon be a doubling and tripling of water and sewage charges to clear the backlog. Norsk Vann estimates that the annual municipal rates for water and sewage for Oslo households will double to almost NOK 10,000 in 2040. According to the same long-term plan, residents of Innlandet, Nordland, and Romsdal would pay the most expensive water and sewerage tax in 2040, between NOK 20,000 and 30,000.

Inflow of stormwater and infiltration of groundwater into sewers is a constant operational challenge, but a water utility in Norway is gaining better understanding of its network with an innovative digital approach, says Marco Westergren, chief analytics officer at InfoTiles.

This article is written in Norwegian by Helge Eide, Director for Society, Welfare and Democracy in KS, and Thomas Breen, Director of Norsk Vann. This is first published in Kommunal Rapport 19.12.2022

According to KS (Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities) and Norsk Vann (Norwegian Water), a nationwide sewage action plan allows municipalities to make wise environmental investments while ensuring economic and social sustainability.

InfoTiles has been granted SkatteFUNN R&D (research and development) support as an innovative business for 2022-2024. SkatteFUNN is a tax deduction Norwegian government programme and support scheme that motivates Norwegian businesses to increase their investment in R&D. 

Digital water technologies have the potential to create resilient water utilities capable of responding to unpredictable weather patterns, says Adam Wood, chief product officer, InfoTiles.

Stavanger, December 1st 2022 - InfoTiles have won the BlueArk Challenge to provide a municipality in Switzerland with continual wastewater network monitoring to tackle inflow & infiltration (I&I).

Announced today at the Smart Water conference in Le Châble, Switzerland, the collaboration will be supported by BlueArk Entremont, ALTIS, and The Ark Foundation to facilitate further development and implementation of the InfoTiles solution.

Digital water technologies have an important role in ensuring universal access to safe drinking water by 2030, that’s according to a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF, and the World Bank. Johnny Alexander Gunneng, chief executive officer at InfoTiles shares his insights and comments on how technologies are helping now.

Two billion more people have gained access to safe drinking water in the past two decades, according to the report. However, the report also shows that the same number are still without access, and an increasingly volatile climate will only heighten water insecurity, disrupt supplies, and devastate communities.

InfoTiles has been awarded Sustainability Partner of the Year at the prestigious Microsoft Norway Partner Awards on September 29th, 2022 in Oslo.

InfoTiles is celebrating after being awarded waste & water challenger of the year at Urban Tech Challengers 2022. 

The contest, hosted by  Urban Tech Forward and BloombergNEF in Warsaw, Poland on September 27-28, attracted more than 400 innovators in seven categories aimed at transforming urban sustainability using powerful technology solutions.