Anna Isaac reports:
“The software we use is older than me, and some of the hardware is older than my dad,” says Siddharth*. He is one of a team fighting a daily battle to sustain ancient IT infrastructure at Thames Water.
Sometimes the defences are breached. Thames, the UK’s largest water and waste treatment company, is on a “knife-edge” according to sources, with its resilience in doubt because it depends on an array of creaking – often Victorian – infrastructure.
While plenty of attention has been paid to its pipes, trunk mains and sewage overflows, less well understood is another big problem: its computer systems. Some IT systems date back to the 1980s, and have long been declared obsolete.
Read more at The Guardian.