公用事业管理人员负责提供安全设施 为当前和未来提供可靠的供水服务 客户。可持续性已经成为一个有影响力的问题 指导组织工作的实用策略 服务方式的规划和发展 客户的日常和长期需求。 这些可持续发展战略提高了资源利用率 效率，直接的长期投资策略， 并降低实施风险。 本文介绍了一系列广泛的技术 以及在 调整策略组合，以包括 最具成本效益且易于实施 提供安全可靠服务的方法 给水务客户。考虑到 水循环和新兴技术的能力 以经济高效的方式处理边际质量 水源，水管理者更有可能 成功引导公众和政治互动 这是成功的效用不可或缺的一部分 规划并确保更可靠的水源 现在和将来。包括表格，数字。

Utility managers are charged with providing safe and reliable water services to current and future customers. Sustainability has emerged as an influential utility strategy that guides the organization's planning and development of approaches to serving their customers' day-to-day and long-term needs. These sustainability strategies improve resource efficiency, direct long-term investment strategies, and reduce implementation risks. The article describes a wide range of technologies and programs that can be considered when adapting a portfolio of strategies to include the most cost-effective and easily implemented approaches for delivering safe and reliable services to water utility customers. By considering the full water cycle and the capability of emerging technologies to cost-effectively treat marginal-quality water sources, the water manager is more likely to successfully navigate the public and political interactions that are an integral part of successful utility planning and ensure more reliable sources of water now, and in the future. Includes table, figures.