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Yorkshire Water is a water supply and treatment utility company that provide 1.24 billion litres of drinking water every single day across one of England’s biggest counties. The Challenge As Yorkshire Water work to meet their leakage reduction targets, SUEZ who are the UK’s provider for satellite leak detection are helping to use the technology to identify leaks within their network with greater accuracy and efficiency. Key Requirements Successfully identify and locate leaks Keep customer disruption to a minimum Save costs by reducing field labour The Results SUEZ helped Yorkshire Water to locate 44 leaks from the 79 POI’s with greater accuracy with one leak alone saving 2 litres per second. The use of satellite leak detection also helped Yorkshire Water save on significant labour costs. The Project - Satellite leak detection UTILITIES YORKSHIRE WATER , UK Satellite Leak Detection Case Study Yorkshire Water are committed to continually exploring innovations and new methods for leak detection within their networks. SUEZ’s offering of satellite leak detection technology was trialled in a demonstration project with Yorkshire Water and helped to locate 44 leaks from the 79 POI’s with greater accuracy and savings on customer disruption, field labour and time. Leaks Found per person / day <1.76 leaks/day/person 6.1> leaks/day/person Leaks Found Per km per man 1 leak every 3 km per person per day Survey Cycle length of time Every 1-4 years Quarterly Monthly, quarterly, yearly options 1 leak every 0.3 km per person per day TYPICAL STANDARD ACOUSTIC SURVEY TYPICAL SATELLITE GUIDED ACOUSTIC SURVEY The green box represents the size of the image taken by the satellite, the trial for Yorkshire Water focused on the areas highlighted in red around Huddersfield and Halifax. This image highlights the number of potential leaks within the area selected by the client. 44 leaks from 79 points of interest

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Page 1: YORKSHIRE WATER UK · Yorkshire Water is a water supply and treatment utility company that provide 1.24 billion litres of drinking water every single day across one of England’s

Yorkshire Water is a water supply and treatment utility company that provide 1.24 billion litres of drinking water every single day across one of England’s biggest counties.

The Challenge As Yorkshire Water work to meet their leakage reduction targets, SUEZ who are the UK’s provider for satellite leak detection are helping to use the technology to identify leaks within their network with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Key Requirements Successfully identify and locate leaks

Keep customer disruption to a minimum

Save costs by reducing field labour

The Results SUEZ helped Yorkshire Water to locate 44 leaks from the 79 POI’s with greater accuracy with one leak alone saving 2 litres per second. The use of satellite leak detection also helped Yorkshire Water save on significant labour costs.

The Project - Satellite leak detection

UTILITIES

YORKSHIRE WATER, UK Satellite Leak Detection Case Study

Yorkshire Water are committed to continually exploring innovations and new methods for leak detection within their networks. SUEZ’s offering of satellite leak detection technology was trialled in a demonstration project with Yorkshire Water and helped to locate 44 leaks from the 79 POI’s with greater accuracy and savings on customer disruption, field labour and time.

Leaks Foundper person / day

<1.76leaks/day/person

6.1>leaks/day/person

Leaks FoundPer km per man

1 leakevery 3 kmper person per day

Survey Cyclelength of time

Every 1-4 years Quarterly Monthly, quarterly, yearly options

1 leakevery 0.3 kmper person per day

TYPICAL STANDARD ACOUSTIC SURVEY TYPICAL SATELLITE GUIDED ACOUSTIC SURVEY

The green box represents the size of the image taken by the satellite, the trial for Yorkshire Water focused on the areas highlighted in red around Huddersfield and Halifax.

This image highlights the number of potential leaks within the area selected by the client.

44 leaks from 79 points of

interest