About Cork County Council Cork County covers an area of 2,880 square miles, making Cork the largest county in Ireland at 11% of the Irish State. After deciding to institute a directive from the European Union (EU) to reduce energy consump-tion by 30% by 2020, Cork County Council realized that understanding their area’s network would be cru-cial in providing superior service. Cork County Coun-cil treats and supplies water to approximately 40,000 non-domestic customers and 100,000 homes across the county. Due to its size, Cork County is broken up into four zones– North, South, East and West Cork–which makes data aggregation even more difficult to manage. At the time, the council was using manual data entry with Excel to produce the leakage figures required by the Department of

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