From Pipes to Platforms: Smart Networks and the Circular Water Economy By SRIRANJAN J
Water infrastructure has, for most of its history, operated on a simple linear logic: extract, treat, distribute, collect, and discharge. This model served growing cities well through much of the 20th century, but it is increasingly inadequate for the pressures of the 21st. Ageing pipe networks silently hemorrhage treated water before it reaches consumers. Wastewater
