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.

Municipal Water Demand Management Balanced Scorecard Model

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.

LITERATURE REVIEW ON PRICING AND DEBT MANAGEMENT FOR WATER SERVICES

User fees, tariffs and property rates charged by the apartheid regime, had little relevance to the marginal cost of providing them. During the 1970s and 1980s, white suburbs and industries received per capita infrastructure investments on par with or even higher than most European and North American countries through heavy government subsidies.

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.