From Crisis to Control: Transforming Water Infrastructure Planning with IFS Copperleaf®

Across the water sector, infrastructure built half a century ago is reaching the end of its useful life. Aging mains, pumping stations, and treatment facilities now pose daily operational and compliance risks.

With limited budgets and growing regulatory expectations, the challenge isn’t simply what to fix—but what to fix first.

IFS Copperleaf® Asset Investment Planning (AIP) helps utilities move beyond reactive maintenance. By quantifying risk, cost, and value across all assets, AIP empowers planners to make transparent, defensible decisions that optimize spending and strengthen resilience.

Why Reactive Maintenance No Longer Works

Even robust maintenance programs struggle with:

• Out-of-sight failures in buried assets
• Data gaps that obscure emerging risks
• Funding trade-offs that favor short-term fixes over sustainable renewal

This reactive cycle increases operational cost, compliance risk, and service interruptions—while delaying long-term outcomes.

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Proactive, Value-Based Infrastructure Planning with IFS Copperleaf®

IFS Copperleaf® provides a modern, data-driven foundation for managing network risk and investment trade-offs.

Core capabilities:

• Risk-based prioritization: Quantify asset failure probability and impact to focus on the highest-value interventions.
• Integrated intelligence: Combine technical, financial, and ESG data for a unified portfolio view.
• Scenario modeling: Evaluate “what-if” plans to balance risk, cost, and service under different funding levels.
• Defensible decision making: Demonstrate how each investment supports regulatory and community goals.

Tangible Benefits for Water Utilities

Utilities using IFS Copperleaf® AIP achieve:

• Fewer emergency repairs and unplanned outages
• 80% faster planning and approval cycles
• More consistent rate-case approvals and smoother regulatory submissions
• Clear linkage between investment decisions, risk mitigation, and ESG outcomes

Why Action Is Urgent

Aging assets, climate impacts, and public accountability are converging. By adopting a value-based approach now, water utilities can extend asset life, maintain service reliability, and deliver sustainability targets with confidence.

IFS Copperleaf® helps you transform infrastructure planning—from firefighting to future-proofing.

Explore how IFS Copperleaf® AIP can modernize your capital planning process.

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The World’s Leading AIP Solution: Mitigate Risk, Build Resilience

See how South Staffs Water achieved it

Interview: How South Staffs Water Modernized Investment Planning with IFS Copperleaf