New South Wales

摘要

Gosford City Council is set to celebrate the completion of a $680,000 groundwater treatment plant project at Bluetongue Stadium. A ceremony will be held to mark the end of the project that will reduce demand on the town water supply by providing an average of 35 million litres of water a year. NICTA, an information and communications technology (ICT) R&D organisation, has joined forces with Sydney Water to improve assessment of water pipes using technology that forecasts potential breakages in the system. Australia's critical water mains breajc on average 7,000 times each year, due to age, material, soil type and other factors. Under the agreement NICTA's machine learning capabilities will be used to more accurately identify which pipes are at risk of failure, potentially saving Australia's water utilities and the community $700 million a year in reactive repairs and maintenance.