Alexandria Water Company's Control Centre — and a Loss Curve It Did Not Draw
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The utility says it cut water losses from 37.2 to 23.5 per cent and credits new pipes, not sensors. Its SCADA control room opened five months after it said so, and nothing that room measures is published.
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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 →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 3 more in Alexandria · 💧 Water guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
On 14 July 2025 the prime minister opened a control and command centre at the Alexandria Water Company, which the company calls the first among the national holding company's subsidiaries. It runs SCADA to watch pressures at the stations, a GIS layer over the network, a laboratory system for water quality and a camera system, staffed around the clock behind six reporting lines. Five months earlier, on a ministerial visit, the chairman had given the company's non-revenue water as 23.5 per cent, down from 37.2, with a target of 19 — and attributed it to pipe work, not to instruments.
📊 Impact
Non-revenue water reported down from 37.2% to 23.5%, with a target of 19% (chairman Ahmed Gaber, 5 February 2025). The company credits replacement and renewal in the Agami, Abis and Abdel Qader hotspots, filter-water recycling, more than 1.3 million water-saving devices and over 300,000 prepaid water meters — not the control centre, which opened five months later. Operator self-report; no regulator publishes an Alexandria figure.
🎓 Lesson
A control room is not a leak-finding layer. Nothing in the descriptions of Alexandria's mentions district metered areas or minimum night flow, the measurement that actually locates losses, and no number out of it is published — so the utility's own loss curve has to be taken on its word. Cairo's water company has the reverse problem: plant automation and no network telemetry either.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Alexandria Water Company's Control Centre — and a Loss Curve It Did Not Draw” — Alexandria, Egypt. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/alexandria-water-control-centre/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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