综合资源需求管理计划将允许准确规划、控制实施，并逐步过渡到节水，从而避免在静态服务成本面前减少用水带来的冲击。技术可以通过简化运营效率和成本，并通过提供一种工具来处理需求管理计划所需的信息收集、存储和操作，促进全面水资源需求管理方法的实施。建立这样的综合信息系统非常耗时，应该以渐进的方式进行。 最谨慎的方法是专注于所需的基本信息层或类别，然后战略性地实施自动化，专注于投资回收期较短的项目。之后可以在“自动化岛屿”之间建立桥梁总结了集成管理系统的基本层或信息类别，以及它们的使用方式。它们包括:（1）设备和仪器，（2）基于计算机的操作控制，（3）图形用户界面，以图片、图表或其他图形的形式在计算机屏幕上显示信息； （4） 办公室和偏远地区的通信系统；以及数据库管理。技术在资源管理、生产、处理、分配和消费方面的建议用途。

An integrated resource demand management program will allow accurate planning, controlled implementation, and gradual transition to water conservation, so to avoid shocks of decreasing water use in the face of static cost of service. Technology can facilitate the implementation of a holistic water resources-demand management approach by streamlining operational efficiency and costs and by providing a tool to handle the information gathering, storage and manipulation that a demand management program requires. Building such integrated information systems is time consuming and should be done on an incremental basis. The most prudent approach is to concentrate on the essential layers or categories of information needed, and then implement automation strategically, concentrating on projects with short payback periods. Bridges can later be built among the "islands of automation." Essential layers, or categories of information, of an integrated management system, and ways in which they can be used, are summarized. They include: (1) equipment and instrumentation, (2) computer-based operations control, (3) graphical user interfaces, which presents information on the computer screen in pictures, charts, or other graphics; (4) communications systems for in the office and for far-flung locations; and database management. Suggested uses for technology in resource management, production, treatment, distribution, and consumption.