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Who Stole my Water? the Case for Water Loss Control and Annual Water Audits
Author(s) -
Baird Gregory M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2011.tb11542.x
Subject(s) - audit , water consumption , control (management) , water conservation , water resources , environmental science , water supply , water utility , business , water resource management , operations management , engineering , accounting , environmental engineering , management , economics , ecology , biology
This article discusses the importance of water loss control and annual water audits. The first broad analysis of water loss for retail public utilities from more than 2,000 Texas water audits in 2005 is discussed, along with the IWA/AWWA water audit methodology advocated by AWWA's Water Loss Control Committee in its 2003 report “Applying Worldwide BMPs in Water Loss Control.” Other AWWA resources for water loss control are mentioned, along with a water audit report done by the Philadelphia Water Department Accountability Committee in 2010 for the thirteenth consecutive year, of the water‐supply operations and customer‐ consumption tracking of the city of Philadelphia using the best practices method advocated by AWWA and IWA.