SewerAI Featured in Municipal Water Leader Magazine: City of Phoenix Adopts AI-Powered Pipe Inspection
Municipal Water Leader magazine features an interview with Patrick Womack of the City of Phoenix Water Services Department about the agency's adoption of SewerAI's AI-powered pipe inspection technology in its April 2025 issue.
SewerAI is proud to be featured in the April 2025 issue of Municipal Water Leader magazine (Volume 12, Issue 4), one of the water industry's most respected publications. The feature spotlights the City of Phoenix Water Services Department's adoption of SewerAI's AI-powered pipe inspection technology — a milestone that underscores the growing role of artificial intelligence in modernizing municipal water infrastructure.
An Interview with the City of Phoenix
The feature centers on an interview with Patrick Womack, a project coordinator for the City of Phoenix's Water Services Department. Womack discusses how Phoenix has integrated SewerAI's technology into its pipe inspection workflows, offering a firsthand look at how a major U.S. city is leveraging AI to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of its underground infrastructure assessments.
Editor-in-chief Kris Polly highlighted the feature in his introduction to the issue, noting: "We interview Patrick Womack, a project coordinator for the City of Phoenix's Water Services Department, about the agency's adoption of SewerAI's AI-powered pipe inspection technology."
The City of Phoenix is one of the largest municipal water systems in the United States, serving millions of residents across a vast and growing metropolitan area. Its adoption of SewerAI's platform reflects a broader industry trend: utilities are increasingly turning to AI-driven tools to replace time-consuming manual review processes, reduce human error, and gain deeper insight into the condition of aging pipe networks.
Featured Alongside Leading Water Technology Innovators
The April 2025 issue of Municipal Water Leader focuses primarily on desalination and advanced membrane technology, featuring interviews with some of the most innovative companies and agencies in the water sector:
- OceanWell — Subsea reverse osmosis technology, developed in partnership with Las Virgenes Municipal Water District
- El Paso Water — Home of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant, the largest inland desalination plant in the world
- WaterSurplus — Advanced water treatment equipment
- DuPont Water Solutions — Desalination and PFAS treatment technologies
- Aqua Membranes — 3D-printed reverse osmosis membranes
Being featured alongside these industry leaders in a publication dedicated to the future of water infrastructure is a testament to the growing recognition of AI-powered pipe inspection as a critical component of modern utility management.
Why AI-Powered Pipe Inspection Matters
Traditional pipe inspection relies heavily on manual video review — a slow, labor-intensive process that can create bottlenecks and inconsistencies in condition assessments. SewerAI's platform automates the analysis of CCTV inspection footage using computer vision and machine learning, enabling utilities to process footage faster, more consistently, and at greater scale than ever before.
For a city the size of Phoenix — managing hundreds of miles of underground pipe — this kind of efficiency gain is transformative. AI-assisted inspection helps utilities prioritize maintenance and rehabilitation efforts, allocate resources more effectively, and ultimately extend the life of critical infrastructure while reducing costs.
Read the Full Issue
The full April 2025 issue of Municipal Water Leader is available as a digital flipbook. We encourage you to read the complete interview with Patrick Womack and explore the other features in this issue. Click here to read Volume 12, Issue 4.
Source: Municipal Water Leader Magazine, April 2025.
