The most expensive water in your system is rainwater.
Every gallon of inflow and infiltration is clean water you're paying to treat, energy you're paying to pump, and capacity you're paying to over-build. Fixing I&I is one of the most direct climate and conservation actions a utility can take.
Find the leak. Recover the resource.
The numbers below are typical for a mid-sized U.S. utility (around 50,000 population) once Smart Sewers identifies and prioritizes the leaks that matter.
Stormwater and groundwater no longer entering the sanitary system, no longer needing treatment, no longer pumped to the plant.
Aeration, pumping, and process energy no longer expended on water that should never have been in the system.
Disinfection chemicals, polymer, and process aids that don't get used because the flow doesn't need to be processed.
Every overflow is a contamination event for someone downstream.
EPA NPDES data shows the most common reportable impact of a sewer overflow is sewage on land surface with potential human exposure — followed by aesthetic impairment, aquatic habitat impairment, and beach contamination. Preventing overflows isn't an engineering metric. It's how a utility honors the river, the bay, and the community downstream.
Wastewater treatment is one of the largest energy users in most cities.
Reducing flow to a treatment plant has a direct, measurable carbon impact — typically the largest single sustainability lever a utility controls.