*2.2. New Distributed Infrastructure Deployment*

The increasing availability of information (and remote-control capability) allows the sector to seriously consider and gain confidence in re-engineering its water managemen<sup>t</sup> practices [35]. This can be achieved also by deploying in large scales more promising, distributed alternatives to water service provision (from treatment to separation and from reuse to drainage, see for example Larsen et al. [36]) that have hitherto been reserved for research/pilot environments. Although a review of these technological developments falls outside the scope of this paper, it is argued that their advent is both enabled by new advances in hydroinformatics (in both the hardware and software sense) and enables interesting hydroinformatic developments in the analytics, modelling and decision contexts. An example of this interplay is evident, for example, in the case of distributed water reuse technologies termed sewer mining [37]. Here, novel treatment solutions emerged, that required advanced monitoring and control systems to become deployable in remote locations [38]. This in turn, led to a need for modelling and optimisation tools, able to support the optimal location of sewer mining units in large sewerage networks [39]. The availability of the sewer mining technology as an intervention option, then meant that integrated models had to include them as options for decision makers [37]. This positive feedback is typical of the way hydroinformatics evolves in a dialectic relationship between the discipline and the water sector.
