Agforest allies with Rezatec to fight against water stress – Expansion

The Pipeline Risk platform reduces water losses by up to 55%.

Spain loses more than 650,000 million liters of water every year, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics. With an obsolete piping network, leaks in the supply network are the main cause of a large part of this resource being lost before it comes out of the household faucet.

In this scenario, the Spanish start up Agforest, a pioneer in the application of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoIA) for the construction of smart cities, has reached an agreement with the British company Rezatec, specialized in the management of water resources, to market in Spain a tool developed by the latter to combat water stress that affects 42% of the national geography. This is the Pipeline Risk platform, which has demonstrated in countries such as the United States its capacity to reduce water losses by up to 55%.

“The introduction of this technology in Spain is a major milestone for the sector. We have an obsolete network that produces economic losses and puts water sustainability at risk. Public administration and water management companies are traditional, but they must change their way of thinking and operating in the current situation,” explains Pablo Quesada, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Agforest.

The platform combines geospatial data (seismic movements or vegetative changes) with information on the supply network (pipe material, network length, leakage history, etc.). And all this is processed through a predictive model based on artificial intelligence, which identifies the 20% of the supply network with the highest risk of suffering losses. Once this 20% has been delimited, the technology helps to identify 85% of leaks before they occur, making it possible to intervene to prevent them.