Alexandria Water Company's Control Centre — and a Loss Curve It Did Not Draw
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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.
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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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