[TOP STORY] Could smart tech be the solution for SA’s water infrastructure woes?

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‘If we could proactively close off those leaks as they start, not months, days, years later, then we start to be able to rectify the system, which means we start to actually collect money for the water that we're moving through the system,’ says Dr Andrew Dickson, engineering executive at CBI-electric: low voltage.

28 Jan 7AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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