This past summer, we partnered with the Water Department and the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship to work on developing a model that predicts how at risk water mains are of breaking. In the months following the partnership, we've seen that the model they built is giving us intelligence about the water system that supplements the knowledge of the crews that attend to it every day. Using data to predict how risky water mains are helps us plan for their maintenance and replacement, and allows us to better coordinate construction work across the different infrastructure systems. The project also showed us what it takes to have a positive partnership on a data project like this.