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Why you can trust what WaterWatch tells you

Every number on WaterWatch comes from Thames Water's own EDM sensor network. We don't estimate, extrapolate, or fill gaps. Here's exactly how our pipeline works — and where its limits honestly lie.

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Daniel Walls
Founder, WaterWatch
15 Mar 2026·8 min readRead article
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