IBM Equates Water to Electricity, Wants Better Measures and Management

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In June, we had a chance to sit down with Drew Clark, IBM’s Venture Capital Group Director of Strategy. He let us know about some great ways IBM is filtering money into projects that go directly toward water and energy efficiency, particularly in making water management look more like the emerging smart grid being created for electricity. Clark pointed out that we hear about energy efficiency in mainstream media quite often, but not nearly as much about water. But that is changing, and IBM wants to be at the helm.

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