SEAAL Water and Sewerage Remote-Control Centre

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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.

Live 📅 since 2008

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run bySEAAL (Société des Eaux et de l'Assainissement d'Alger) — ADE 70% / ONA 30%

Scale🗺️ Regional

🎓 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.

📡 Data & IoT Water Sensors & IoT

Sources

↗ Areal (system supplier, customer reference)Load-bearing source for the scope of the telemetry system. Verbatim: 'drinking water, with more than 300 sites, including production and transfer plants, pumping stations, storage sites and distribution points'; 'sewerage with 100 sites in the collection network (black spots and booster stations) and treatment stations'; 'The remote control center of Kouba, inaugurated in 2008 by President Bouteflika.'; contract 'signed later 2005 for a 5-year period'; 'Two Topkapi server stations – one dedicated to drinking water, the other to sewerage – are fitted in the remote control center'; links are 'radio and GSM' and 'VPN type in GPRS technology'. Supplier-side source, so the site counts are attributed, not asserted. SEAAL's own pages (seaal.dz) returned HTTP 503 to every automated request during this run and could not be used to cross-check the counts; a search snippet from seaal.dz gives a materially lower figure (145 sites / 213 monitored points / 7 sector stations), which is why no single site count is stated as fact in the entry.

↗ El Moudjahid (state daily)SEAAL's 2024 leak-reduction results: about 8 million m³ of drinking water saved by repairing close to 24,000 leaks across the wilayas of Algiers and Tipaza; 11,855 leaks handled by June 2025. Reports volumes and repairs only — no network-efficiency or non-revenue-water percentage.

↗ La Patrie News (press)SEAAL 2024 results, verbatim: '387 millions m³ d'eau potable' supplied in Algiers and Tipaza; '28 000 interventions ont été réalisées pour la réparation des réseaux d'eau'; 'plus de 8 millions de m³ d'eau' recovered; '100 millions de m³ d'eaux usées' treated at eight plants; a 'compteurs intelligents' pilot launched in the Bab Ezzouar district; 'plus de 3 millions de messages SMS' sent to subscribers. Again no rendement/NRW figure. (The 24,000 vs 28,000 repair counts differ between the two 2024 write-ups; the entry says 'roughly 28,000 leak interventions' following this one and does not reconcile them.)

↗ Algerie Eco (press)Carries the operator change: the SEAAL–Suez management contract ended on 31 August 2021 after 15 years, and SEAAL (ADE 70% / ONA 30%) has been run by an entirely Algerian management team since.

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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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