Water and Wastewater
Reduce leakage, hit compliance targets, accelerate capital delivery, and coordinate field teams across the network
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A sector under pressure to transform
Storm overflows, rising leakage reduction targets, environmental compliance, and the biggest capital programme the sector has ever seen. Water companies are being asked to deliver more than ever with less than ever. Cogna is the AI partner that closes that gap.
$3.4tn
Total US water infrastructure investment needed over the next 20 years
40%+
of the operational workforce plan to retire in next 5 years
£104bn
Committed to UK water investment in AMP8
Common use cases
How teams are applying AI to critical workflows in water companies
Leakage detection and response
Prioritise leak investigations across thousands of alerts, coordinate find-and-fix crews, and track the process from detection through to verified repair.
Asset investment prioritisation
Group and sequence work packages across contractors, geographies, and investment periods. Balance delivery efficiency against supply chain capacity and regulatory commitments.
Flood and pollution incident management
Classify sewer flooding against inundation evidence, triage pollution events by severity, and assemble regulatory evidence packs for Ofwat and EPA submissions.
Dispatch and workforce planning
Schedule and optimize daily job allocation across field crews based on skill, geography, priority, and real-time conditions.
Customer-side leakage management
Triage AMI alerts by severity, route properties through monitoring, communications, and repair workflows, and manage the full case lifecycle from detection to closure without scaling headcount.
Storm overflow reduction
Monitor overflow performance against spill targets, prioritise investment across thousands of assets, and track the impact of interventions against regulatory commitments.
Real impact for clients
“I've not seen a solution like this before. What Cogna has built is exceptional.”
Tim Steiner
CEO, Ocado
Frequently Asked Questions
Water companies are using AI to close the gap between the data their infrastructure generates and the decisions their teams make manually. Leakage management, asset investment prioritisation, workforce planning, and regulatory reporting are where the biggest gains sit. Cogna builds AI applications to help companies improve or automate these workflows.
AMP8 has committed £104bn to UK water infrastructure while tightening targets on leakage, pollution, and storm overflows. Over 40% of the operational workforce is approaching retirement. The pressure to deliver more with fewer experienced people makes the case immediate.
The problems that sit between existing systems and human judgment: prioritising leak investigations across thousands of alerts, sequencing capital programmes across contractors and geographies, triaging pollution events, and coordinating field crews at scale. Cogna targets the critical work that still depends on manual efforts, spreadsheets and institutional knowledge.
Yes. Cogna connects across SCADA, GIS, AMI, ERPs, asset management platforms, and legacy databases.
Weeks, not months. Cogna runs focused discovery alongside operational experts, builds a working application around your own data and process logic, and tests it in your environment before you commit.
