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Opportunists dumbfounders and fairy tale uncles are flooding our industry.

Whereby opportunists with money and the urge for recognition are sometimes the worst kinds of contemporaries, they spare no means to keep up the appearance of world improvers and do-gooders.

I will take a closer look at the slogans of these major companies one by one. In this case, a newcomer in the field of water loss reduction. It is amazing that such companies manage to attract so much attention that even the most philanthropic German business families invest in these "hot air balloons".

Statement

“We are running out of time to save water. Day Zero, the day the world runs out of water is a reality.”

?What nonsense. Poor maintenance is causing many water utilities to have supply problems. Climatic changes cause a wide variety of weather phenomena. But water is not lost to us, it is distributed differently. Yes -?pollution often makes it unusable for us but water will not disappear from our planet from one day to the next.

Is there always the same amount of water on earth?

Yes - at least in the normal human time horizon.

On an evolutionary scale, things look different. During the Ice Age, for example, the sea level was more than 100 meters lower than it is today because a lot of water was bound in the form of ice in the Earth's glaciers. However, ice is ultimately only a solid form of water, so this does not change the total amount.

If one looks however completely far back into the history of the earth, then the earth obviously lost water in the course of its four and a half billion years. Some of it has evaporated into space, and some have been transported by plate tectonic movements into the earth's interior, where it has been chemically incorporated into minerals.

Overall, it is estimated that there is about a quarter less water in the world today than there was in Earth's early days. But this loss plays no role in the current water crises.

Statement

“ We need to empower utilities with AI actionable data to help in driving down NRW”

This should be explained in a little more detail; "blah blah" is not enough. Remind - The slide rule was already invented many centuries ago, the providers only have to do their homework, and then the loss reduction works perfectly.

It is also necessary to finally explain that AI (artificial intelligence) is machine learning, not magic or a panacea. It is simply a matter of comparing existing knowledge, facts, figures, images, etc. in the fastest possible way to draw new conclusions in a variety of ways - not, more or less. It's a great invention, but as in gold rush times, many scammers are jumping on this bandwagon and therein lies the danger. The quick buck is just too tempting.

Statement

“We harness the power of AI to deliver significant leakage reduction on any pipe material, with unerring accuracy.”

Will you AI idiots finally understand that the dear AI can't outsmart physics? Where there is no useful signal, there is also no calculation formula.

Do you make ones out of zeros?

The leakage noise that your wonder bags record is nothing other than energy, a pressure wave carried away in the pipe and water and subject to the laws of physics. This means, especially in non-metallic pipes with little pressure, that the smallest leaks have too little energy to be carried away. Your AI can calculate until it gets "stupid," but if there's nothing there, there's nothing. So finally, stop taking people for fools."

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