Reducing water losses in Municipalities: Key issues and pointers to implementation

Saving water and water demand management (WDM) in general can be quite confusing to a municipality wishing to embark on some form of water loss reduction activities. A lot of work has taken place in South African and internationally to support water loss reduction in order to save money.

Water Demand Management

This guide concentrates on highlighting the key issues in simple and straightforward terms in an attempt to explain what interventions can be undertaken in order to reduce water losses from municipal water supply networks and how best to implement them.

Guideline for No Drop Programme

The No Drop assessment enables the regulator to measure the performance of WSAs, and subsequently to reward (or penalize) the institution upon evidence of their excellence (or failures) according to the minimum standards or requirements that have been defined.