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In late February 2020, Leakage Engineers at Affinity Water were tasked with locating the source of a visible leak in the High Street of a small village in Hertfordshire.  On the face of it, it seemed like a straightforward problem to fix, but excavations at the site revealed only that the water was escaping from a redundant gas main and that the leak location could be much further away.

A thorough sounding of the area was conducted by one of the Lead Engineers with over 20 years&

Introduction

Three million litres per day of drinking water were leaking from a 16-inch cast iron pipe buried 2.5 metres beneath Guildford Street, next to the historic Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London, and it was discovered amid an intensive hunt for leaks across the capital’s trunk main network.

Thames Water’s pipe network stretches 20,000 miles, almost 2,000 miles of which are large trunk mains supplying 10 million people with drink

On 25th of March 2019 the Logan City Council receives a customer call to report water that is coming up in a driveway. The Water Operations branch team around John Christie, Steve Young and Angus Heares investigate the SCADA data and indeed confirm an increase in the night line on the 21st of March.

Water loss through leaks and non-revenue water are a global issue of monumental scale. A 2018 Consumer Council for Water report revealed that in England alone more than three billion litres of water are lost from leaking infrastructure every day, making water leakage the number-one concern for UK water utilities’ customers.

Despite significant manpower-driven efforts to reduce leakage, it has actually continued to increase in recent years. The UK government has now put forwar

On 25th of March 2019 the Logan City Council receives a customer call to report water that is coming up in a driveway. The Water Operations branch team around John Christie, Steve Young and Angus Heares investigate the SCADA data and indeed confirm an increase in the night line on the 21st of March.

Lawrence Kansas finds leak on KU Campus

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In June 2018, the City of Lawrence, Kansas water department pinpointed a very small but significant, non-surfacing leak using GUTERMANN’s AQUASCAN 610 Leak Noise Correlator.  Public Works and Utilities received a call that there was an unusual amount of water infiltrating a storm sewer.  After investigating, the water department was able to trace the location of the water ba

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Haifa is Israel’s third-largest city with a population of over 250,000. It is in the very north of Israel, close to the border to Lebanon and beautifully situated on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Mei Carmel is a public corporation founded in 2010 as a spin-off from the municipal government with the aim to improving the public service level to the residents of Haifa. Mei Carmel is obliged to invest all the excess profit in water and sanitation