ISKI Centralized SCADA Water Balancing Strategy
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ISKI's SCADA system splits Istanbul's drinking-water network into district metering areas that can be watched and managed remotely, so pressure and flow anomalies point to where a leak is. The utility's loss and leakage rate fell from 22.31% in 2019 to 18.63% at the end of 2024, after hydraulic modelling of 18,500 kilometres of mains and the installation of 420 metering areas.
what does this mean?
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ISKI's published annual series for water loss and leakage: 22.31% in 2019, 20.68% in 2020, 20.52% in 2021, 19.45% in 2022, 18.94% in 2023 and 18.63% at the end of 2024. The utility puts its spending on the programme at more than 1 billion lira, and says the saving is worth about 50 days of Istanbul's water demand.
🎓 Lesson
Leak reduction is a grind, not a project: six annual figures, more than a billion lira, hydraulic modelling of 18,500 kilometres of mains and 420 metering areas wired into SCADA. And better is not good - the Istanbul branch of the Chamber of Environmental Engineers, which put the loss at 22.3% in its own 2020 study, says the level to aim for is 5%.
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splits Istanbul's drinking-water network into district metering areas that can be watched and managed remotely
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fell from 22.31% in 2019 to 18.63% at the end of 2024
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hydraulic modelling of 18,500 kilometres of mains and the installation of 420 metering areas
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22.31% in 2019, 20.68% in 2020, 20.52% in 2021, 19.45% in 2022, 18.94% in 2023 and 18.63% at the end of 2024
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The utility puts its spending on the programme at more than 1 billion lira
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says the saving is worth about 50 days of Istanbul's water demand
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the Istanbul branch of the Chamber of Environmental Engineers, which put the loss at 22.3% in its own 2020 study, says the level to aim for is 5%
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- İSKİ (Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration)
- Actor types
- utility
- Funding model
- utility
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- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
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4 source dossiers
ISKI (operator) - SCADA technology
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src-65cd0c60eac0cb95- Publisher
- Name not classified · iski.istanbul
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-26
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
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The utility's own description of the SCADA layer over the network. No publication date is recorded: the page did not answer when this entry was checked.
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Sozcu (press)
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src-9d5ab9122ccdaddb- Publisher
- Name not classified · sozcu.com.tr
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2025-02-22
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-26
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- 2026-08-27
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Reports the utility's full annual loss series 2019-2024, the investment total, and the modelling and metering-area counts behind it.
Daily Sabah (press)
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src-2c8783b3d6de98b0- Publisher
- Name not classified · dailysabah.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2020-12-22
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- 2026-08-26
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- 2026-08-27
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The Chamber of Environmental Engineers' own measurement of Istanbul's losses and the level it says the city should be aiming for.
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Wikipedia - Water supply and sanitation in Istanbul (reference)
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src-27ec8b884a537b4b- Publisher
- Name not classified · en.wikipedia.org
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- web-page · language not classified
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- No source-level check date
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- 2026-08-26
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Background on the network. Continuously revised, so it states no publication date.
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Compare this project
Same architecture, four answers: how much water is lost?
Four utilities run the recognised playbook — SCADA, district metering, pressure and night-flow monitoring. What separates them is not the technology but what they can show for it, and whether they publish a loss rate at all.
| 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). “ISKI Centralized SCADA Water Balancing Strategy” — Istanbul, Turkey. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/istanbul-scada-water/ (last verified 2026-08-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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