Water is precious, yet much is wasted. The World Bank estimates that 88 billion litres of treated water is lost from leaking urban pipelines every day, a quantity split evenly between rich and poor countries. Now an Israeli company called Curapipe has developed a system that aims to seal leaks cheaply with only a small disruption to the water supply.
via economist.com (link via Israel Matzav)
Awesome use of ingenuity and robots to fix a problem that costs us 3,500 liters of water per km of pipe per day. With 10,500 kilometers of water operated by Israel’s national water carrier, that could amount to 13.4 million cubic meters saved per year. While Israel uses approximately 2.1 billion cubic meters of water per year (meaning that this would represent 0.6% savings), every last bit counts (and the technology is pretty cool).
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