A new platform being sought for wastewater operations and maintenance highlights how European utilities are pairing AI, data transparency and weather risk tools in the water cycle.
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On 30th December 2025, the Entidad Regional de Saneamiento y Depuración de Aguas Residuales (ESAMUR) published a contract to deliver a new AI‑driven digitalisation platform and maintenance management system for its wastewater assets, backed by European funding and intended to tighten control over operations, data and extreme weather risks.
The digitalisation platform and maintenance system contract sets out plans to design and implement a unified digital platform together with a computer‑aided maintenance management system. The authority places artificial intelligence at the centre of the work, calling for AI-based use cases in three areas:
Bringing these strands together in a single project signals an ambition to move from siloed tools to an integrated view of plants, assets and external conditions. Instead of treating operational control, maintenance and meteorology as separate concerns, ESAMUR wants a system that can learn from data across all three.
While the notice gives only a high-level description, the emphasis on data transparency suggests that the platform is expected not just to support internal decisions, but also to make key information easier to interrogate and share. Coupled with computer‑aided maintenance, it points towards more systematic, data‑driven management of wastewater infrastructure.
Across the 2025 procurement notices, water and environmental bodies repeatedly link digitalisation to climate‑related risk management. By connecting weather information directly to treatment operations and maintenance planning, ESAMUR is aligning its investment with that wider shift.
ESAMUR’s move does not stand alone. Throughout 2025, water utilities and local authorities have been contracting for sensors, control systems and digital platforms that together sketch out a digital water agenda.
In July 2025, the Consejo de Administración de la Entidad Pública Empresarial Local Agua de Valladolid launched a process sensorization service contract for the Valladolid wastewater treatment plant. The work forms part of the Aquavall 2.0 Project for digitalising the urban water cycle, with new sensors feeding data into upgraded control systems.
Also in July 2025, Gerencia de Ecociudad Zaragoza S.A.U. advertised the supply and installation of sensors in the city’s sewage network, under the Digitaliza Project to improve the efficiency of the urban water cycle. Here too, more granular data is seen as the foundation for better management.
By September 2025, the Junta de Gobierno de la Diputación Provincial de Burgos was seeking equipment to connect drinking water supply and sanitation networks in 37 municipalities to a digital platform, enabling monitoring of key parameters across a dispersed territory. In October 2025, the Pleno de la Diputación Provincial de Málaga followed with a project to implement technological solutions that would let municipalities control and monitor the whole water cycle more efficiently.
At provincial scale, the Consorcio Medioambiente y Aguas Provincia de Cáceres – Mas Medio – used December 2025 to tender a water cycle digitalization project. That contract aims to supply, install and integrate sensing and control equipment at multiple sites to improve water management efficiency. Complementing this, a prior information notice from November 2025 trails a forthcoming service contract for water cycle management software under the Aqua‑Ceres Project, which is funded by the European Union.
Technical assistance contracts are also playing a role. In August 2025, Urbide Arabako Ur Partzuergoa – Consorcio de Aguas de Álava – sought engineering support for the URBIRA project, aimed at enhancing digitalisation of the urban water cycle across participating municipalities. Together, these notices show regional and local bodies trying to knit hardware, software and expertise into coherent, multi‑site systems.
ESAMUR’s insistence on a computer‑aided maintenance management system reflects a wider shift towards more structured asset care. In November 2025, the Consejo de Administración de la Sociedad Municipal Aguas de Burgos, S.A. advertised a computer-assisted maintenance management system of its own. That contract describes a software‑based tool to support preventive and corrective maintenance, while keeping comprehensive records of interventions.
Artificial intelligence is also moving into core specifications. In December 2025, the Junta de Gobierno del Ayuntamiento de Ejea de los Caballeros issued a notice for water cycle management platforms that place digitalisation and AI at the centre of comprehensive water cycle management. The service covers custom development, training, licensing, hosting and a year of support and maintenance, underlining that AI is being treated as part of day‑to‑day operations rather than a separate experiment.
Other buyers are explicitly tying operational control to climate risk. In August 2025, the Gerencia de la Empresa Municipal de Aguas y Saneamiento de Murcia S.A. sought software tools for advanced infrastructure management, combining real‑time work order management with advanced climate risk management as part of a water cycle project. The dual focus closely mirrors ESAMUR’s interest in linking maintenance workflows with weather‑related decision‑making.
Beyond utilities, environmental and civil protection bodies are investing in the data that underpins such decisions. On 17th November 2025, ARPAE – Agenzia Regionale per la Prevenzione, l'Ambiente e l'Energia – issued corrected documents for a contract covering maintenance and assistance for the regional hydrometeorological monitoring network in Emilia‑Romagna, explicitly aimed at civil protection. And in September 2025, Fundación Integra launched a contract to develop new functionalities for an existing digital twin and related platforms, to support the rural and marine entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Region of Murcia, with a strong focus on hydrometeorological risk management and agricultural innovation.
Digital representation of assets is advancing in other ways too. In November 2025, the Presidencia del Consejo Insular de Aguas de Tenerife sought BIM modelling services for hydraulic infrastructures, including data collection, integration of 3D models and the supply of virtual reality glasses for specific facilities. While aimed at design and asset information rather than operations, it reinforces the trend towards richer, more accessible data about water infrastructure.
ESAMUR’s platform and maintenance project sits alongside several other water and environment digitalisation contracts that are being supported by European funds. Together, those notices suggest that EU‑level programmes are helping to underwrite investment in data, automation and climate resilience.
In October 2025, the Presidencia de la Diputación Provincial de Granada published a prior information notice for a project to install sectorisation meters to control unregistered water in multiple municipalities, explicitly financed by the Next GenerationEU initiative.
On 10th November 2025, the Comité de Contratación de Aguas Municipalizadas de Alicante, Empresa Mixta, advertised the supply, implementation and maintenance of an advanced control platform for managing industrial discharges and infiltrations in the drainage network. That contract forms part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan funded by the European Union.
Digital platforms for the urban water cycle also feature prominently in the EU‑funded Digitamed initiative. On 7th August 2025, Apoderado Mancomunado de Aigües de Sagunt, S.A. launched a notice for software implementation services needed for Digitamed, shortly followed by a parallel tender from Consejería Delegada Mancomunada de Actuacions Ambientals Integrals, S.L. for similar software systems. Both notices stress improving the efficiency of the urban water cycle as part of a European Union funded initiative.
Mas Medio’s Aqua‑Ceres Project, flagged in November 2025 as EU‑funded, adds another example of water‑cycle management software backed by European money. And beyond the water sector, the Área Metropolitana de Lisboa’s November 2025 procurement for services to implement and operate a metropolitan digital solution under the AML – Smart Region project shows how similar digital infrastructure themes are being pursued at metropolitan scale, including the roll‑out of sensors across different thematic areas.
Taken together, these contracts indicate that European funding is not only supporting new physical infrastructure but also underwriting the information systems, analytics and control platforms that sit around it.
As procurement for ESAMUR’s new platform moves forward, the key questions will be around implementation rather than ambition. The contract’s brief wording leaves open how far the AI-based use cases will extend, how data transparency will be interpreted in practice, and how tightly the proactive weather management functions will be coupled to wider hydrometeorological networks and digital twins emerging elsewhere.
What is clear from 2025’s notices is that regional and local bodies across Europe are now buying the pieces needed for data‑rich water and wastewater management: sensors, digital twins, maintenance systems, control platforms and weather‑aware tools. ESAMUR’s digitalisation platform and maintenance system will be one of the tests of how well those ideas translate into reliable service on the ground.
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