SEAAL Water and Sewerage Remote-Control Centre
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One room in Kouba has watched Algiers' reservoirs and pumps since 2008. Yet the utility's own 2024 results report volumes supplied and 28,000 leak repairs — and no figure at all for how much water the network loses.
what does this mean?
The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 5 more in Algiers · 💧 Water guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
SEAAL, the utility for the wilayas of Algiers and Tipaza, supervises its networks from a remote-control centre at Kouba, inaugurated in 2008 under a management contract signed in 2005. According to the system supplier, Topkapi servers there poll more than 300 drinking-water sites — production and transfer plants, pumping stations, reservoirs, distribution points — plus about 100 sewerage sites, over radio, GSM and GPRS links, showing flows, reservoir levels and pump status on a projection wall. The utility has been entirely Algerian-managed since the Suez contract ended on 31 August 2021.
🎓 Lesson
Telemetry tells you what is in the pipes, not what is missing from them. SEAAL publishes what it supplied in 2024 (387 million m³) and what it repaired (roughly 28,000 leak interventions, about 8 million m³ recovered), but neither of its published 2024 results carries a network-efficiency or non-revenue-water rate — the one number that would say whether twenty years of instrumentation moved the needle.
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Same architecture, four answers: how much water is lost?
Four utilities run the recognised playbook — SCADA, district metering, pressure and night-flow monitoring. What separates them is not the technology but what they can show for it, and whether they publish a loss rate at all.
| Project | Since | Status | Outcome | Evidence | Run by | Cost | What the instrumentation produced |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casablanca Real-Time Water Network Monitoring (Aquadvanced)Casablanca, 🇲🇦 | — | Live | Ongoing | Official | Utility or public operator | not public | The whole network under permanent district metering with thousands of fixed acoustic sensors — every performance figure self-reported by the private operator. |
| ISKI Centralized SCADA Water Balancing StrategyIstanbul, 🇹🇷 | 2008 | Live | Ongoing | Official | Utility or public operator | not public | The same playbook with the steadiest published result: non-revenue water down from 22.31 per cent to 18.63 per cent over five years. |
| ASKİ SCADA Network and Ankara's Water LossesAnkara, 🇹🇷 | — | Live | Ongoing | Official | Utility or public operator | not public | Identical architecture, opposite outcome: the utility's own strategic plan opens at a 42 per cent loss rate. |
| SEAAL Water and Sewerage Remote-Control CentreAlgiers, 🇩🇿 | 2008 | Live | Ongoing | Media | Utility or public operator | not public | Hundreds of sites polled since 2008 and no network-efficiency or loss rate published at all — the one number that would settle it. |
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📎 Cite this project
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “SEAAL Water and Sewerage Remote-Control Centre” — Algiers, Algeria. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/algiers-seaal-telecontrol/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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