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Water & Sanitation · Recorded milestone

AI-managed water networks

Recorded year2013

Sensors and AI cut leaks, which waste a third of piped water in many cities.

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Built on

Cloud computingRecorded · 2006enables
Wireless sensor networksRecorded · 2010enables

Led to

Engineered glacier reservesForecast · ~2045enables
Leak-free water networksForecast · ~2046enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.