MIT student team on a mission to find pipe leaks and save water. (You may have seen us at MIT SOLVE, 100K, Water Prize, HUBweek, OceanExchange, Engadget, etc.)
16% of purified drinking water (2.1 trillion gallons per year) in the US is wasted because of 240,000 annual water main breaks. We need to fix our country’s #Infrastructure now!
To provide more people with water, it is more cost effective to patch up the Leaky pipes than building new 100M$ water treatment plants. #WaterWorldwaterworld.com/articles/prin…
$300 Billion to Replace America’s Water Pipes #NYTimes Know where to dig precisely rather than dig them all= a 20-40% discount or $60-120 billion saving. Thats what we want to do #MIT_pipeguardmobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/1…