Water Co. Exploring Use of ML to Detect Quality Issues

Everybody expects to have clean drinking water. But as the lead crises in Michigan has shown, that's not always the case. Now American Water, the largest publicly traded water company in the country, is actively researching the use of machine learning and real-time streaming data technology to detect and identify potentially harmful chemical signatures in its surface drinking water supply. The company is in the early stages of building such a machine learning system. But according to American Water Senior Technologist John Kuchmek, the potential benefits of training machine learning models on real-time water quality data collected by remote sensors are too great to ignore.