The EU loses one in four litres of treated water. Can AI fix that?

As droughts intensify across Europe, causing water shortages, ageing pipes are accelerating the depletion of the bloc’s water supplies.

Europe loses 23 percent of its non-revenue water (NRW) to leaks, which is water that’s extracted and treated but never reaches households. NRW levels vary from 6 percent in the Netherlands to 45 percent in Bulgaria, resulting in costly reactive repairs.

In 2024 alone, 67 percent of monitored EU properties had leaks, losing 772 million litres of water (equivalent to 300 Olympic-size swimming pools) and costing more than €3 million. Of the 19.3 billion litres monitored in 2025, 1.47 billion (equivalent to 9.8…

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