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ASKİ SCADA Network and Ankara's Water Losses

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Ankara has the control room, the district metering areas and the telemetry. It also loses 42% of its drinking water — more than twice Istanbul's 18.6%. ASKİ's own strategic plan lists the loss rate among its weaknesses.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
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Run byASKİ (Ankara Su ve Kanalizasyon İdaresi / Ankara Water and Sewerage Administration)
Scale🏙️ City-wide

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ASKİ runs Ankara's drinking-water network from a single SCADA control centre, staffed around the clock, with reservoirs, pump stations and network measurement points reporting in so that leaks and failures can be found without waiting for a burst to surface. The instrumentation is real and long-standing. The result is not: the utility's own 2025-2029 strategic plan opens the planning period at a 42% loss rate and sets 25% as the target for 2029. The same plan lists "high loss rate" among ASKİ's self-declared weaknesses and records SCADA renewal as 0% complete in 2025, due to reach 100% only in 2029. No start year for the original SCADA system could be established from any source, so none is claimed here.

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📊 Impact

ASKİ's own 2025-2029 strategic plan records a plan-opening water loss rate of 42%, against a 2029 target of 25%. Turkish press citing Court of Accounts (Sayıştay) audits reports roughly 38% for 2019-2020, 36.35% for 2021 and above 30% for 2023-2024. Istanbul's İSKİ, running the same SCADA-and-district-metering playbook, reports 18.6%.

🎓 Lesson

Instrumentation and consequence are different purchases. Ankara and Istanbul run the same architecture — SCADA, district metering areas, pressure and night-flow monitoring — and the gap between 18.6% and 42% is not explained by which of them owns the technology. A control room tells you where the water is going; it does not replace the pipe.

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↗ ASKİ (operator) — 2025-2029 Strategic Plan, PDFPrimary source, text extracted directly. Core performance indicator table gives plan-period opening value 42 and end-of-plan target 25 for "Kayıp Kaçak Oranı (%)". Strategic goal 1.5 is "Kayıp kaçak oranını düşürmek". The SWOT lists "Kayıp kaçak oranının yüksek olması" as a weakness and "SCADA sisteminin yenilenecek olması" as a factor. Indicator PG.1.1.1 "SCADA Sisteminin Yenilenme Oranı (%)" has a 2025 baseline of 0 and a 2029 target of 100, owned by Bilgi İşlem Dairesi Başkanlığı.
↗ Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi (operator) — SCADA control centre, 10 March 2011DATED 10 MARCH 2011 — the figures here are fifteen years old and are not current; search engines surface them as if they were. ASKİ's then general manager: "Ankara genelindeki 106 su deposu, 59 pompa istasyonu, 93 ölçüm noktası SCADA sistemine bağlıdır." Describes a 24-hour main control centre with three operators per shift. Used here only to establish that centralised SCADA control predates 2011.
↗ Songur, Dabanlı, Yılmazel & Şenyel Kürkçüoğlu (peer-reviewed) — Afyon Kocatepe Univ. J. Sci. Eng. 21(6), 2021Published 31 December 2021"Su Dağıtım Şebekelerindeki Fiziki Kayıpların Önlenmesinde SCADA'nın Önemi: ASKİ Örneği". Studies a district metering area in Gölbaşı without SCADA: minimum night flow rose again a year after remediation, i.e. creating a metering zone without continuous monitoring does not hold the gain. Supports the mechanism, not the citywide percentages.
↗ Memurlar.net (press) — report on Sayıştay audit, 4 January 2026Secondary reporting of the Court of Accounts audit: ~38% for 2019-2020, 36.35% for 2021, above 30% for 2023-2024, against a Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry regulatory ceiling of 30% for 2023. Frames losses as "kamu zarar riski". The underlying Sayıştay report itself was NOT retrieved — the year-by-year percentages here rest on this press account, while the 42%/25% figures rest on ASKİ's own plan.
↗ İSKİ / atlas cross-reference (operator)Istanbul comparison point already in the atlas as istanbul-scada-water: non-revenue water 22.3% (2019) falling to 18.6% (2024).
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Claim 1 clm-09446e1ab3e2a381 descriptive
ASKİ runs Ankara's drinking-water network from a single SCADA control centre, staffed around the clock, with reservoirs, pump stations and network measurement points reporting in so that leaks and failures can be found without waiting for a burst to surface
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The operator's then general manager stated that 106 water reservoirs, 59 pump stations and 93 measurement points across Ankara were connected to the SCADA system, describing a 24-hour main control centre with three operators per shift.
Caveat
That page is dated 10 March 2011 and its figures are fifteen years old, although search engines surface them as if current. It is used here only to establish that centralised SCADA control predates 2011 — no start year for the original system could be established from any source, so none is claimed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi (operator) — SCADA control centre, 10 March 2011
Claim 2 clm-a1c6e22bc81abaef quantitative
the utility's own 2025-2029 strategic plan opens the planning period at a 42% loss rate and sets 25% as the target for 2029
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What the mapping says
The plan's core performance indicator table gives a plan-period opening value of 42 and an end-of-plan target of 25 for the loss-and-leakage rate, with strategic goal 1.5 being to reduce it.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ASKİ (operator) — 2025-2029 Strategic Plan, PDF
Claim 3 clm-8b84fa74ee549fdc quantitative
The same plan lists "high loss rate" among ASKİ's self-declared weaknesses and records SCADA renewal as 0% complete in 2025, due to reach 100% only in 2029
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The plan's own SWOT lists the high loss-and-leakage rate as a weakness and the forthcoming SCADA renewal as a factor; indicator PG.1.1.1, the SCADA system renewal rate, carries a 2025 baseline of 0 and a 2029 target of 100, owned by the IT directorate.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. ASKİ (operator) — 2025-2029 Strategic Plan, PDF
Claim 4 clm-08f1d83e475c83a1 quantitative
Turkish press citing Court of Accounts (Sayıştay) audits reports roughly 38% for 2019-2020, 36.35% for 2021 and above 30% for 2023-2024
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The press account of the audit gives roughly 38 per cent for 2019-2020, 36.35 per cent for 2021 and above 30 per cent for 2023-2024, against a ministry regulatory ceiling of 30 per cent for 2023, and frames the losses as a risk of loss to the public purse.
Caveat
The underlying audit report itself was not retrieved: these year-by-year percentages rest on this press account, while the 42 and 25 per cent figures rest on the utility's own plan.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Memurlar.net (press) — report on Sayıştay audit, 4 January 2026
Claim 5 clm-69a68910323d794f quantitative
Istanbul's İSKİ, running the same SCADA-and-district-metering playbook, reports 18.6%
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The Istanbul comparison point already in the atlas records non-revenue water falling from 22.3 per cent in 2019 to 18.6 per cent in 2024 under the same architecture.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. İSKİ / atlas cross-reference (operator)
Claim 6 clm-cb2da8476911e575 quantitative
the gap between 18.6% and 42% is not explained by which of them owns the technology. A control room tells you where the water is going; it does not replace the pipe
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The peer-reviewed study of a district metering area in Gölbaşı without SCADA found that minimum night flow rose again a year after remediation — creating a metering zone without continuous monitoring does not hold the gain. Against that mechanism, the utility's own plan still opens at 42 per cent and schedules its SCADA renewal to finish only in 2029.
Caveat
The study supports the mechanism, not the citywide percentages, and the comparison between the two cities is the entry's own.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Songur, Dabanlı, Yılmazel & Şenyel Kürkçüoğlu (peer-reviewed) — Afyon Kocatepe Univ. J. Sci. Eng. 21(6), 2021
  2. ASKİ (operator) — 2025-2029 Strategic Plan, PDF
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unreviewed Revision 2026-08-21-source-dates effective 2026-08-06 · created 2026-08-22

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Operator
ASKİ (Ankara Su ve Kanalizasyon İdaresi / Ankara Water and Sewerage Administration)
Actor types
utility
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utility
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5 source dossiers

ASKİ (operator) — 2025-2029 Strategic Plan, PDF aski.gov.tr · 3 linked claims

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Primary source, text extracted directly. Core performance indicator table gives plan-period opening value 42 and end-of-plan target 25 for "Kayıp Kaçak Oranı (%)". Strategic goal 1.5 is "Kayıp kaçak oranını düşürmek". The SWOT lists "Kayıp kaçak oranının yüksek olması" as a weakness and "SCADA sisteminin yenilenecek olması" as a factor. Indicator PG.1.1.1 "SCADA Sisteminin Yenilenme Oranı (%)" has a 2025 baseline of 0 and a 2029 target of 100, owned by Bilgi İşlem Dairesi Başkanlığı.

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Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi (operator) — SCADA control centre, 10 March 2011 ankara.bel.tr · 1 linked claim

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2011-03-10
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DATED 10 MARCH 2011 — the figures here are fifteen years old and are not current; search engines surface them as if they were. ASKİ's then general manager: "Ankara genelindeki 106 su deposu, 59 pompa istasyonu, 93 ölçüm noktası SCADA sistemine bağlıdır." Describes a 24-hour main control centre with three operators per shift. Used here only to establish that centralised SCADA control predates 2011.

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Songur, Dabanlı, Yılmazel & Şenyel Kürkçüoğlu (peer-reviewed) — Afyon Kocatepe Univ. J. Sci. Eng. 21(6), 2021 dergipark.org.tr · 1 linked claim

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2021-12-31
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"Su Dağıtım Şebekelerindeki Fiziki Kayıpların Önlenmesinde SCADA'nın Önemi: ASKİ Örneği". Studies a district metering area in Gölbaşı without SCADA: minimum night flow rose again a year after remediation, i.e. creating a metering zone without continuous monitoring does not hold the gain. Supports the mechanism, not the citywide percentages.

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Memurlar.net (press) — report on Sayıştay audit, 4 January 2026 memurlar.net · 1 linked claim

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2026-01-04
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Secondary reporting of the Court of Accounts audit: ~38% for 2019-2020, 36.35% for 2021, above 30% for 2023-2024, against a Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry regulatory ceiling of 30% for 2023. Frames losses as "kamu zarar riski". The underlying Sayıştay report itself was NOT retrieved — the year-by-year percentages here rest on this press account, while the 42%/25% figures rest on ASKİ's own plan.

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İSKİ / atlas cross-reference (operator) iski.istanbul · 1 linked claim

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2026-08-06
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2026-08-22
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Istanbul comparison point already in the atlas as istanbul-scada-water: non-revenue water 22.3% (2019) falling to 18.6% (2024).

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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Compare this project

🇹🇷 ISKI Centralized SCADA Water Balancing Strategy · Istanbul The domestic comparison, and it is unflattering: the same SCADA-and-district-metering playbook, 42 per cent against 18.6. 🇪🇬 Alexandria Water Company's Control Centre — and a Loss Curve It Did Not Draw · Alexandria Both report their own loss rates; Alexandria credits pipe renewal rather than the room, Ankara records its SCADA renewal at zero. 🇮🇳 Mumbai Water Distribution Improvement Programme · Mumbai Utilities that instrumented the network and still lost the water — the works, not the telemetry, are what moves the number.

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.

ProjectSinceStatusOutcomeEvidenceRun byCostWhat 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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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision📖 SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)📖 District metering area (DMA)📖 Non-revenue water (NRW)
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “ASKİ SCADA Network and Ankara's Water Losses” — Ankara, Turkey. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ankara-aski-water-loss/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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