Goleta Water District Committee recommends award of contract to Global Water

PHOENIX, April 18, 2012 /CNW/ - GWR Global Water Resources Corp. (TSX: GWR) and Global Water Resources, Inc. ("Global Water") announced today that the Goleta Water District ("Goleta") Public Information Committee has recommended selection of Global Water's FATHOM™ for a Customer Information System, inclusive of Electronic Billing and Payment.  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 providing 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.

About GWR Global Water Resources Corp. and Global Water
GWR Global Water Resources Corp. owns an approximate 48.1% interest in Global Water. Global Water is a leading water resource management and technology company that owns and operates water, wastewater and recycled water utilities, and provides data and water management services through its unique, award winning platform, FATHOM Utility-to-Utility (U₂U™) Solutions. Initially developed by Global Water to support and optimize its own utilities, FATHOM is an integrated suite of advanced technologies proven to increase revenue, decrease costs and bring heightened efficiencies to municipally-owned utilities. FATHOM puts water management tools in customers' hands.

Ross Marshall
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