Water-loss report prioritisation
Fix the leaks that matter most, first.
Roughly 47% of treated water in South African municipalities is lost to leaks. Reports arrive by the hundred each day; this platform ranks them so crews go where they save the most.
The problem
Municipalities can't repair everything at once, so the order matters: a burst main in a dense suburb loses more water, and affects more people, than a dripping meter.
How it works
- 01
Reports come in
Residents report leaks and outages from their phones, with a GPS pin and photos. Each morning new reports are pulled from every source.
- 02
Duplicates are linked
Reports of the same fault, close together and within a few days, are linked so a burst main counts once, with the number of people who saw it.
- 03
The model picks today’s work
An analyst sets how many faults the crews can take on. The model chooses which of the open reports to fix first; runs can be compared side by side.
- 04
Crews fix and report back
Crews get their jobs in an app that works offline, check in and out on site with photos, and the analyst sees each fault close on the map.