Plugging in Dubuque
October 13, 2009

IBM is working on a project in Dubuque to use sensors and interactive reporting for public services like water, electricity, and roads. They're calling it a "Smarter City Initiative", and one of the elements involves the installation of tools to reduce unmeasured water flows. Many municipal water systems find that large amounts of flow go unmeasured -- oftentimes due to leaks within the distribution system and slow leaks in households and workplaces that are too small for water meters to catch. But even a gallon of loss per person per day in a place like Dubuque (population 57,250) would represent 21 million gallons of unmeasured flow in a year -- or about a full day's worth of capacity at the Eagle Point WTP that serves Dubuque.

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