对于水和废水行业来说，遵守要求生成、跟踪和报告数据的法规的负担继续增加。现在比以往任何时候都更需要公用事业公司和母公司更有效地管理其数据。需要更好、更强大的工具来跟踪监管数据，并在内部使用这些数据来衡量系统的生产率和性能。联合水资源公司（UWR）已经认识到这一挑战，并正在解决管理大量数据的解决方案。 该解决方案利用了当今关系数据库的强大功能和灵活性。有了这些工具，UWR采用了公司范围的运营信息系统数据库（OpIS）。本文介绍了OpIS，它是一个关系数据库系统，包含水质数据和生产数据的组合。该数据库被设计为一个混合系统，提供数据仓库存储和在线事务处理（OLTP）功能。它能够提供决策支持，并进行规范化，以便为其他公司提供补充数据- 广泛的信息系统。

The burden of keeping up with regulations which require the generation, tracking and reporting of data continues to increase for the water and wastewater industry. There is more of a need than ever for utilities and parent water companies to manage their data more efficiently. Better and more powerful tools are needed to track regulatory data and to use the data internally for measuring system productivity and performance. At United Water Resources (UWR), this challenge has been recognized and the solution for managing the huge amounts of data is being addressed. The solution takes advantage of the power and flexibility of today's relational databases. With these tools, UWR has adopted a corporate-wide Operations Information System Database (OpIS). This paper describes OpIS which is a relational database system that houses a combination of water quality data and production data. The database is designed as a hybrid system which provides both data warehouse storage and on line transaction processing (OLTP) functionality. It is capable of providing decision support and is normalized with the intent of providing complementary data for the other corporate-wide information systems.