Water tracker inventor honoured

A 28-YEAR-OLD water employee who designed an innovative system to track commercial water usage has been acknowledged with a national achievement award.
South East Water employee Andrew Forster-Knight invented the Hydroshare technology that measures commercial companies’ water usage for South East Water.
The invention won him the Young Leader award at the National 2008 Save Water Awards presented last week in Melbourne.
Hydroshare is an innovative system which helps commercial customers track their water consumption and identify any leaks.
Hydroshare is a real-time data collection and reporting system used extensively around Australia by companies and other organisations.
South East Water managing director Shaun Cox congratulated Mr Forster-Knight on his achievement.
“The savewater! awards® recognise the truly outstanding lengths some Australians have taken to preserve water during one of the worst droughts on record,” Mr Cox said.
Mr Cox said more than 25 schools in the South East water area have used Hydroshare to not only understand water use at their school but as an educational aid to assist students in their studies about water.
“Hydroshare has become one of today’s more sophisticated tools that organisations can use to better understand water use at their sites.”