Mr. Ross Marshall reports

GOLETA WATER DISTRICT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS AWARD OF CONTRACT TO GLOBAL WATER

GWR Global Water Resources Corp.'s FATHOM, which includes electronic billing and payment, has been recommended by the Goleta Water district's public information committee for a customer information system. The item has been forwarded to the Goleta board of directors for final approval. FATHOM is an integrated suite of advanced technology products designed to bring heightened efficiencies to utility operations.

Upon approval, Global Water's FATHOM platform will service approximately 16,600 service connections and a population of 87,000, offering Goleta an opportunity to build upon its water conservation efforts by offering customers access to industry-leading technologies and a high level of automated services.

FATHOM is deployed as an integrated suite of utility-to-utility services including customer information system, automated meter infrastructure and asset management solutions to bring heightened efficiencies to utility operations and is proven to streamline critical business processes to provide immediate cost savings. FATHOM is hosted in a secure cloud-computing environment, which ensures rapid implementation and requires no additional IT personnel or infrastructure. FATHOM significantly reduces utility operating costs while improving service levels. FATHOM is deployed as a turn-key, bundled solution and includes financing in some cases.