{"id":20758,"date":"2022-12-26T00:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/26\/leak-hunting-pipebots-will-help-us-save-water\/"},"modified":"2022-12-26T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T00:26:13","slug":"leak-hunting-pipebots-will-help-us-save-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=20758","title":{"rendered":"Leak-hunting &#8216;pipebots&#8217; will help us save water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Scientists have developed miniature robots called \u2018Pipebots\u2019 to patrol the water supply network to check for faults and prevent leaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">About three billion litres of water are lost every day through leaks across hundreds of thousands of kilometres of water pipe in England and Wales, according to the water industry\u2019s regulator, Ofwat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Researchers say maintaining those underground pipes will be &#8220;impossible&#8221; without robotics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-64069533?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Scientists have developed miniature robots called \u2018Pipebots\u2019 to patrol the water supply network to check for faults and prevent leaks. About three billion litres of water are lost every &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}