1001 Smart Cities
🇮🇳 Ahmedabad

Drinking Water Network SCADA

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The drinking-water side reports continuously from 148 distribution stations and the city says it recovered 23 million litres a day. On the sewage side, a 2026 procurement notice records that the pumps are still worked by hand.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byAmdavad Municipal Corporation water department; system integrator Chetas Control Systems Pvt Ltd, Pune, under SCADL
Scale🏙️ City-wide

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 5 more in Ahmedabad · 💧 Water guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects

Flow meters, pressure transmitters and RTU/PLC panels report from the Amdavad Municipal Corporation's drinking-water network into a SCADA system covering the treatment plants and 148 water distribution stations, with a dashboard, a mobile app, and automatic alerts to the responsible engineers when a parameter drifts outside its set range. The corporation states the purpose plainly — find leaks and hold pressure in the pipes, rather than dispatch crews on complaints. The wastewater network is a different story: a World Bank-supported market engagement notice from January 2026 records that only some sewage and terminal pumping stations transmit to the central wastewater SCADA and that the pumps there are manually operated.

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📊 Impact

The corporation reports roughly ₹60 million (₹6 crore) saved annually on electricity and chemical inputs and 23 million litres a day of water recovered that had previously been wasted. Both are the operator's own figures, relayed by trade press; the atlas found no independent audit of either.

🎓 Lesson

One city, two networks, two different rungs of the same ladder: the drinking-water side senses continuously and alerts a named engineer, the sewage side is read by people who then turn valves by hand. 'The city has SCADA' is never a complete answer — the useful question is which network, and whether anything downstream moves without a human.

📡 Data & IoTWaterSensors & IoT

Sources

↗ Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, Pan City Projects (operator)Verbatim: 'Installation of flow & Pressor Sensors in distribution network to monitor of leakages through online dashboard and mobile app ... Provide alert in case of deviation to set parameters and automatic direct reporting to all concerned Engineers and officials of AMC.'
↗ Smart Utilities (India Infrastructure trade press), 'SCADA Control: ULB initiatives for water network management', 30 June 2021Carries the scope, the integrator and the savings. Verbatim: 'The Ahmedabad Smart City has installed a SCADA system for real-time monitoring of three water treatment plants and 148 water distribution stations'; 'The project has been implemented by Chetas Control Systems Private Limited, Pune'; 'The solution has helped the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation save approximately Rs 60 million annually. Besides, it has helped in utilising 23 million litres per day (mld) of water that was earlier being wasted.' CAUTION: other write-ups give four treatment plants plus four french wells and about 3,192 flow meters; only the 148 distribution stations are consistent across sources, so only that figure is used.
↗ World Bank, early market engagement — AI-based autonomous SCADA system, Ahmedabad (5 January 2026)The honest counterweight, and the current-status check. States that 'data of some of the STPs and SPS is being transmitted at Central Wastewater SCADA' and that the pumps 'are manually operated', and that AMC intends to 'upgrade the Wastewater SCADA system and hook up all STPs, SPS and TSPS along with Sewer network' under the Gujarat Resilient Cities Partnership: Ahmedabad City Resilience Project.
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Claim 1 clm-9ba6df6594061066 quantitative
Flow meters, pressure transmitters and RTU/PLC panels report from the Amdavad Municipal Corporation's drinking-water network into a SCADA system covering the treatment plants and 148 water distribution stations, with a dashboard, a mobile app, and automatic alerts to the responsible engineers when a parameter drifts outside its set range
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The trade account states that the city 'has installed a SCADA system for real-time monitoring of three water treatment plants and 148 water distribution stations', implemented by a named integrator. The operator's own project page describes the alerting layer verbatim: sensors in the distribution network monitored through an online dashboard and mobile app, providing 'alert in case of deviation to set parameters and automatic direct reporting to all concerned Engineers and officials'.
Caveat
Other write-ups give four treatment plants plus four french wells and about 3,192 flow meters; only the 148 distribution stations are consistent across sources, so only that figure is used.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart Utilities (India Infrastructure trade press), 'SCADA Control: ULB initiatives for water network management', 30 June 2021
  2. Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, Pan City Projects (operator)
Claim 2 clm-8c3dd76f17d7e583 descriptive
The corporation states the purpose plainly — find leaks and hold pressure in the pipes, rather than dispatch crews on complaints
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The operator's own wording is 'Installation of flow & Pressor Sensors in distribution network to monitor of leakages through online dashboard and mobile app' — the stated object is leakage and pressure, not complaint response.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, Pan City Projects (operator)
Claim 3 clm-6fb48ac36285b22f quantitative
The wastewater network is a different story: a World Bank-supported market engagement notice from January 2026 records that only some sewage and terminal pumping stations transmit to the central wastewater SCADA and that the pumps there are manually operated
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The notice states that 'data of some of the STPs and SPS is being transmitted at Central Wastewater SCADA' and that the pumps 'are manually operated', and records the corporation's intention to upgrade the wastewater system and connect all treatment and pumping stations along with the sewer network under a resilience project.
Caveat
A procurement notice describing a current state in order to justify an upgrade — which makes it a candid source about the gap, and an interested one about the fix.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. World Bank, early market engagement — AI-based autonomous SCADA system, Ahmedabad (5 January 2026)
Claim 4 clm-f36d195313c93cdb quantitative
The corporation reports roughly ₹60 million (₹6 crore) saved annually on electricity and chemical inputs and 23 million litres a day of water recovered that had previously been wasted
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The trade account states that 'The solution has helped the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation save approximately Rs 60 million annually' and that 'it has helped in utilising 23 million litres per day (mld) of water that was earlier being wasted.'
Caveat
Both are the operator's own figures relayed by trade press; no independent audit of either was found.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart Utilities (India Infrastructure trade press), 'SCADA Control: ULB initiatives for water network management', 30 June 2021
Claim 5 clm-982dacff657b090b descriptive
One city, two networks, two different rungs of the same ladder: the drinking-water side senses continuously and alerts a named engineer, the sewage side is read by people who then turn valves by hand
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The drinking-water project page promises automatic direct reporting to the responsible engineers on any deviation from set parameters; the wastewater notice records that only some stations transmit at all and that the pumps are manually operated.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, Pan City Projects (operator)
  2. World Bank, early market engagement — AI-based autonomous SCADA system, Ahmedabad (5 January 2026)
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

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unreviewed Revision 2026-08-20-claim-baseline effective 2026-08-06 · created 2026-08-21

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Amdavad Municipal Corporation water department; system integrator Chetas Control Systems Pvt Ltd, Pune, under SCADL
Actor types
city-government, private
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

3 source dossiers

Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, Pan City Projects (operator) smartcityahmedabad.com · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-d4a61146334efca8
Publisher
Name not classified · smartcityahmedabad.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-06
Dossier created
2026-08-21
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Verbatim: 'Installation of flow & Pressor Sensors in distribution network to monitor of leakages through online dashboard and mobile app ... Provide alert in case of deviation to set parameters and automatic direct reporting to all concerned Engineers and officials of AMC.'

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Smart Utilities (India Infrastructure trade press), 'SCADA Control: ULB initiatives for water network management', 30 June 2021 smartutilities.net.in · 2 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-5a29c44ebe8a2daf
Publisher
Name not classified · smartutilities.net.in
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2021-06-30
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-06
Dossier created
2026-08-21
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Carries the scope, the integrator and the savings. Verbatim: 'The Ahmedabad Smart City has installed a SCADA system for real-time monitoring of three water treatment plants and 148 water distribution stations'; 'The project has been implemented by Chetas Control Systems Private Limited, Pune'; 'The solution has helped the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation save approximately Rs 60 million annually. Besides, it has helped in utilising 23 million litres per day (mld) of water that was earlier being wasted.' CAUTION: other write-ups give four treatment plants plus four french wells and about 3,192 flow meters; only the 148 distribution stations are consistent across sources, so only that figure is used.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
World Bank, early market engagement — AI-based autonomous SCADA system, Ahmedabad (5 January 2026) worldbank.org · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-6cd8b8380b74bf61
Publisher
Name not classified · worldbank.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-01-05
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-06
Dossier created
2026-08-21
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The honest counterweight, and the current-status check. States that 'data of some of the STPs and SPS is being transmitted at Central Wastewater SCADA' and that the pumps 'are manually operated', and that AMC intends to 'upgrade the Wastewater SCADA system and hook up all STPs, SPS and TSPS along with Sewer network' under the Gujarat Resilient Cities Partnership: Ahmedabad City Resilience Project.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
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  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Drinking Water Network SCADA” — Ahmedabad, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ahmedabad-water-scada/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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