Water challenge was launched by Smart City Living Lab, IIITH in association with Government of Telangana & NIUM together in Feb-March, 2021 timeframe to find viable solutions to the problems faced regarding water quality, supply and non-revenue water by the cities. The panellists were from Academia (IIITH), Government bodies (MEITY, HMWSSB, NIUM), private consultants from WRI, and technology partners EBTC.

Focus Areas

  • Non-revenue Water (Water revenue lost due to unaccounted water, pipe-breakage or lost in tanks or in pilferage, etc.)
  • Water Quality and Quantity Monitoring
  • Wastewater industrial/sewerage etc and rain-water
  • Water drains
  • Open innovation
  • Any other smart city solutions or other products with smart city use cases

Pitch Day Qualifiers


Oceo Water Pvt Ltd - Pipeline Water Leak Detection from Space (Jalashay)

AI enabled hydrological analytics derived from Satellite images to help public utilities to forecast accurately and detect water leakages in water transmission networks without physically being present on the field.


IIITH - Smart Water Meter Solutions

Low cost retrofit for digitisation of analog water meter, a viable replacement of expensive digital water meters.


Kritsnam Technologies Pvt. Ltd - water flow meter

For bulk water supply, an inline ultrasonic flow metre is used. An excellent tool for monitoring water flows in pipelines in real-time.