ASKİ SCADA Network and Ankara's Water Losses

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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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Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

Run byASKİ (Ankara Su ve Kanalizasyon İdaresi / Ankara Water and Sewerage Administration)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 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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Sources

↗ 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), 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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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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