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In 2016, Lydec had saved the equivalent of the annual consumption

of a city with 1,073,000 inhabitants in comparison with 1997.

saving millions of m3 of water in Morocco by detecting leaks

SUEZ s Moroccan subsidiary Lydec has set itself the target of saving the equivalent of the consumption of a city of 1.2 million inhabitants by 2020.

A promise that will be kept by the continual improvement of network yield (76.7% at the end of 2016) and the deployment of an integrated leak detection strategy, using innovative techniques (500 acoustic sensors, pressure modulation, advanced sectorisation, etc.).

As a result, at the end of 2016, 41 million m3 of drinking water had been saved in comparison with 1997.

3. Save the equivalent of the water consumption of a city of more than 2 million inhabitants by 2020