How Engineers Are Making Old Water Infrastructure Smart
How Engineers Are Making Old Water Infrastructure Smart
Joan Thompson posted on October 19, 2016
Imagine you order a one-person pizza with six slices, but when it arrives at your house there is one missing. You are annoyed that you still have to pay for the whole pizza, so you ask what happened to it. And the delivery man says, “I don’t know, the sixth slice must have gotten lost along the way here.”
That scenario more or less describes drinking water systems in the United States. Despite the enormous amount of energy and resources that go into treating our water, we lose an average of one-sixth of it by the time it reaches our taps. This loss happens as a result of pipeline leaks, breaks, poor efficiency, or even theft. Locating where exactly these losses are coming from, though, is easier said than done.
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