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Setting Economic Leakage Targets. (Report C)

Order Code: NS83
ISBN Number: 1898920087
Publisher: WRC
No. of Pages: 126
Date of Publication: 1994

Price: £40.00









This report acts as a guide to Water Companies in setting leakage targets for individual water supply zones and for the company as a whole based on economic principles. The report looks at the balance between the cost of maintaining a particular leakage level and the cost of the water lost. The economic optimum leakage level is where the marginal cost of the water lost is equal to the marginal costs of the resources required to keep it at that level. Guidance is given on how these two marginal costs can be calculated and how the optimum level of leakage for any area can be derived.

  • Background
  • The optimum level of leakage approach
  • cost of water
  • the cost of active leakage control
  • Transitional costs
  • economic target
  • Development of a leakage Policy through an economic approach
  • Calculation of optimum level of leakage
  • Development of a leakage strategy
  • preparation of a leakage Policy
  • implementation and performance monitoring.


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