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An Israeli Plumber
According to Amanda Little’s article, Anybody Call
a Plumber?, in a recent Bloomsberg BusinessWeek article,
8.6 trillion gallons of water are lost to leakage worldwide each year – enough to fill Lake Mead or supply
Niagara Falls for more than four months. Israel, as
you know, is located in the desert, and over the past
seven years has struggled through a drought with
record-low rainfall. But Israel now enjoys higher agricultural yields than it’s had in drought less years.
About one million residents draw water from
seven reservoirs that supply Jerusalem in a massive
underground vault patrolled by armed guards to
keep insurgents from poisoning the supply. Thick
cement walls surround a floodlit pool of water 40
feet deep and wider than two football fields. But
it’s better protected by the ingenious efforts of Amir
Peleg’s company, TaKaDu, which uses mathematical
algorithms to detect and prevent water leakage.
Less than one-tenth of Israeli’s water comes from
freshwater sources such as the Sea of Galilee. The
rest comes from filtered gray water – Israel recycles
more than 85 percent of its wastewater – and from
desalination that transforms saltwater into drinking
water. Avshalom Felber, CEO of IDE Technologies,
Israel’s biggest desalination company, says, “Among
all conservation technologies in development, the
most valuable is leak detection.”
“Until TaKaDu came along, the water-utility world
was almost deaf and blind,” says Zohar Yinon, CEO
of Hagihon, Israel’s water utility. “It’s like an EKG or
an X-ray exposing the inner workings of our system
on a real-time basis. We are no longer plumbers and
water engineers; we’ve entered the world of preventive medicine,” he adds. All water utilities will one
day have to follow suit, to survive.
Peleg got the idea in 2008 from a water engineer
specializing in Scada (supervisory control and data
acquisition). Within months, Peleg had hired five
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programmers, looking not for insurgents, but he says,
“Now our enemies are not people, but the leaky pipes
underground.” Wagging his iPhone 6, Hagihon’s
Yinon says, “I can find out anywhere if my meters
are accurate, my water quality is clean, my pressure
is good, and my pumps are working. All these layers
are integrated online.”
TaKaDu’s software initially establishes a baseline
of “normal behavior” within each network. The better
it understands normal patterns of water flow, the better it can detect aberrations. At a Netherlands utility,
for example, it noticed spikes in flows regularly on
Friday afternoons – corresponding to breaks in play
during a World Cup soccer game as fans flushed
toilets. Melbourne’s Unitywater noticed large flows
from one fire hydrant and found a strawberry farmer
was siphoning off water for his crops.
Water in Israel, unlike in the US, is expensive.
Peleg says, “Americans think water should be free
and unlimited, like air.” Noting last year ’s Los
Angeles water main leak that lost 20,000 gallons of
water during a crippling
drought, Peleg says, “Our
software would have
picked up on it when it
was a small leak.”
It sounds as though
California can use an
Israeli plumber.
Dave DuVernay held
various management positions in subsidiaries of
GE, IP, E.F.Hutton, and
Chrysler from which he
retired as CEO of its real
estate investment unit.
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for its advocacy on behalf of New Hampshire families.
With extensive experience in motor vehicle accients, workplace
injuries and other complex personal injury litigation, the firm has won
a number of cases which have set precedents in state law.
The firm’s partners are consistently recognized in publications such as
“Best Lawyers in America”, “Super Lawyers”, and “NH’s Top Attorneys.”
If you have a potential personal injury case,
call Attorney Peter Heed at the Keene Office
(603) 354-3000
1819 Elm Street, Manchester, NH Ph: (603)-627-1819 Fax: (603)-666-4227
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