{"id":234016,"date":"2025-07-03T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234016\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:34:09","slug":"ai-sewers-in-sussex-help-prevent-flooding-southern-water-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234016\/","title":{"rendered":"AI sewers in Sussex help prevent flooding, Southern Water says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Southern Water, blocked sewers are the single biggest cause of pollution incidents, but  AI has now cut internal flooding by 40% and external flooding by 15%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The water company says it has about 32,000 sewer lever monitors that can check on flows and spot anything out of the ordinary which might indicate a blockage or leak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr McElhinney said: &#8220;Most customers do not realise the average suburban sewer is only the diameter of an orange or a tennis ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t take much cooking fat to combine with other &#8216;unflushables&#8217; such as sanitary products, wet wipes or even ear cleaning sticks, to form a fatberg,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Southern Water, blocked sewers are the single biggest cause of pollution incidents, but AI has now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114787913761689688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}