{"id":593958,"date":"2026-05-20T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593958\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:50:09","slug":"thames-water-using-ai-technology-to-find-leaks-in-swindon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593958\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames Water using AI technology to find leaks in Swindon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A water company says it hopes new AI technology could prevent up to 100 million litres leaking a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Water, which serves the majority of Swindon and its surrounding areas in Wiltshire, is working with Origin Tech to use satellite technology to detect moisture and movement in the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the UK, about 19% of water is lost to leakage before it reaches customers, according to the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Co-founder of Origin Tech, John Marsden, said the satellites pass over Swindon &#8220;roughly every six days&#8221; and produce &#8220;points on a map&#8221; where leakage is suspected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water company says it hopes new AI technology could prevent up to 100 million litres leaking a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}