Pune's Smart Water Metering, DMA & SCADA Network
Pune Municipal Corporation began its 24x7 metered water supply project in 2017, part-funded by a ₹200 crore, 10-year municipal bond (the first Indian civic bond issue in 14 years) toward a roughly ₹2,300 crore programme of reservoirs, bulk/smart metering and distribution works. The city was divided into 327 District Metered Areas so inflow and outflow can be tracked to curb leakage and theft, with bulk meters feeding a SCADA/IoT system and a staff-facing portal (flow, pressure and level sensors, DMA and automatic-meter-reading data). As of September 2025, trade press put the metered-supply scheme at roughly 75% physical progress; PMC's parallel Equal Water Supply tank-and-pipeline component was reported 85% complete in February 2026, with completion still slipping past its original target years.
📊 Impact
Trade press reported the 24x7 metered-supply scheme at about 75% physical progress as of September 2025; PMC separately reported its linked tank-and-pipeline component at 85% complete in February 2026.
🎓 Lesson
A revenue-bond-funded smart-metering rollout is still a construction project first — Pune's DMA/SCADA network has taken the better part of a decade to approach completion, well past its original schedule.
📖 Terms in this entry: Non-revenue water (NRW) · Adaptive traffic signals · Digital twin
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Pune's Smart Water Metering, DMA & SCADA Network” — Pune, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/pune-water-metering-scada/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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