Will Water Become the Chief Commodity of the 21st Century?

South Bend, Ind., avoided $120 million in upgrades and conserved millions of gallons of water by becoming one of the first cities on the globe to use cloud computing to manage its water systems.

By Christa Marshall and ClimateWire

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