How AI can enhance water management in Cape Town

System Administrator

World Water Day is observed annually on March 22 to raise awareness about the importance of water in our lives and the sustainable management of freshwater resources. In celebration of this year’s event, I would like to reflect on the following question: Can digitilisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) improve water management in Cape Town and other major cities around the world? Last year, researchers at Stellenbosch University completed a project in the Philippi Horticultural Area funded by the Water Research Commission, WWF and the Western Cape Department of Agriculture. Situated on the Cape Flats Aquifer and surrounded by racing stables, factories and informal as well as formal housing settlements, this agricultural area is known as the breadbasket of Cape Town because it supplies many residents of…

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