Balanced Scorecards have been used for many years to assess and monitor complex situations which involve a wide range of functions, many of which cannot be assessed or quantified in a normal manner. It is ideally suited to multi-disciplinary activities such as the operation and management of a water utility.
Category: Advisory packages, guidelines, and tools
The Status and Use of Drinking Water
This report is the result of a project carried out to explore the status of water efficient devices in the domestic and commercial environments in South Africa.
Guideline for reducing water losses
Many municipalities struggle to appreciate the necessity and benefits of dealing with water losses in their reticulation systems. Council officials will often debate at length over a budget allocation of a few thousand Rand when a road leak will run unattended for weeks if not months which can easily run up a bill of hundreds of thousands of Rand.
Guidelines for Pressure Management
This document includes the results from eight pressure management pilot projects undertaken in South Africa, using the PRESMAC Pressure Management Program which has been developed for the South African Water Research Commission.
Aqualite Water Balance User Guide
AquaLite has been designed to provide a pragmatic and straight-forward approach to a relatively complex issue and its design is based on the experience of many specialists dealing with such issues on a daily basis in many parts of the world.
Introduction to Integrated Water Meter Management
Water metering is particularly important for municipalities since it forms the basis for much of their income through the sale of water to their consumers.
National Water Resource Strategy 2
The major focus of the NWRS2 is equitable and sustainable access and use of water by all South Africans while sustaining the water resources.
Asset Management Toolkit
Infrastructure Asset Management provides a logical framework which these functions can be caried out.
Department of Water and Sanitation Revised Norms and Standards
Norms and Standards in Respect of tariffs for the water supply services supplied directly to consumers.
Presmac: Pressure Management Program
The PRESMAC pressure management model is used to assess the likely savings (in monetary terms) of various pressure reduction options (fixed-outlet and time –modulated PRV’s) in a selected zone metered area.