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Several cities in Quebec including Gatineau, Montreal, and Rimouski, as well as Windsor, London and Thunder Bay, ON and Halifax, NS, have been participating in the project. Renato explains, that the reasons pipes break include frost, aging, as well as soil corrosion. However, a very important, yet often overlooked problem, is pressure build-up in the system -- with too much variation, pressure weakens pipes. Renato is developing a method to model pressure, which is not currently used in modeling predictions. He adds that this type of modelling can be of tremendous value to municipalities.