Best Practices for Water Loss Protection, Mediation & Asset Management

By Barry Hales & Howard Hodder

When it comes to saving water and making better use of it, is there really anything to debate? Water is critical. It is beyond important; we can’t survive without it.

In America alone, more than 6 billion gallons of water are lost each day due to apparent and real loss issues, says the Urban Land Institute in its “Infrastructure 2010 Investment Imperative.” That’s a shocking amount of waste, especially for a resource no one can live without. Water leaks typically occur underground and, therefore, are not always obvious. In fact, our own leak detection investigations conducted over the past five years indicate that 90 percent of leaks are not evident without a proactive leak detection system or program. According to “Understanding America’s Water and Wastewater Challenges,” published in May 2017 by the Bipartisan Policy Center, an estimated 1.7 trillion gallons of water per year is lost due to aging and leaking infrastructure. These leaks have created a $2.6-billion issue known as non-revenue water (NRW). And NRW can no longer be ignored.