Casablanca Real-Time Water Network Monitoring (Aquadvanced)
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Roughly 4,000 acoustic sensors listen to more than 7,000 km of Casablanca water mains for leaks. Every performance figure is the operator's own, and in 2024 the concession passed to a public utility.
what does this mean?
The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 4 more in Casablanca · 💧 Water guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
Casablanca's drinking-water network is run as a fully sectorised, instrumented system: Lydec - the private delegated operator (a Suez subsidiary) - placed 100% of the >7,000 km network under permanent district metering (an 80 km mesh) monitored in real time through Suez's Aquadvanced platform, fed by a fleet of roughly 4,000 fixed acoustic leak sensors plus remotely read meters. The data layer pinpoints leaks for repair crews rather than waiting for surface breaks. When Lydec's 27-year concession ended on 1 October 2024, the network - and this monitoring layer - passed to the new public regional utility SRM Casablanca-Settat. The performance figures are the operator's own and have not been independently audited; the same utility's flood record in Casablanca has drawn sustained public criticism, a reminder that a smart water layer optimises pipes, not stormwater.
📊 Impact
Operator-reported (Lydec, 2023): 918 water-main leaks and 18,074 branch/meter leaks repaired in one year; over 10 million m3 of water saved in 2023 and roughly 94 million m3 cumulatively since 1997. Coverage: 100% permanent sectorisation of the >7,000 km network (80 km mesh) and ~4,000 fixed acoustic sensors as of March 2024. No independent verification of the savings figures was found.
🎓 Lesson
A real-time monitoring platform is only as strong as the institution around it: every performance number here is self-reported by the operator, and the smart water layer sat inside a utility whose stormwater/flood performance was widely criticised. It also shows what happens to a data layer when a long private concession ends - the instrumentation transfers with the pipes, so continuity depends on the incoming public operator sustaining it.
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| Project | Since | Status | Outcome | Evidence | Run by | Cost | What 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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📎 Cite this project
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Casablanca Real-Time Water Network Monitoring (Aquadvanced)” — Casablanca, Morocco. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/casablanca-smart-water-network/ (last verified 2026-07-30). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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