Losses in Water Distribution Networks: A Practitioner's Guide to Assessment, Monitoring and Control

By M. Farley, S. Trow, Malcolm Farley, et al.

Globally, water demand is rising and resources are diminishing. Water loss from the distribution network has long been a feature of operations management, even in countries with a well-developed infrastructure and good operating practices. As well as leakage ('real' losses), there are other losses from the network (apparent losses) that can often be reduced by the introduction of a regulatory framework and customer metering and charging policies. Such programmes can run alongside initiatives to tackle leakage and improve the pipe network. Together, these programmes form a strategy for restoring a potentially huge lost resource. Losses in Water Distribution Networks: A Practitioners Guide to Assessment, Monitoring and Control provides the key to developing a water loss strategy. It presents a diagnostic approach, followed by the implementation of solutions that are both practicable and achievable, and which can be applied to any water company, anywhere in the world to develop a water loss management strategy. The aim of the book is to allow water network operators to: .understand the significance and assess the scale of water loss components; .quantify the volume of losses by measurement or estimation; .become aware of the various techniques to monitor and control leakage; .select the appropriate network management practices and equipment to support the techniques; .develop a strategy for a particular network by considering the economic and other factors relevant to the local conditions and infrastructure; .design a leakage management and control system appropriate to local conditions and constraints; .be aware of the operation and maintenance and training requirements to sustain the policies and practices once in place. Losses in Water Distribution Networks: A Practitioners Guide to Assessment, Monitoring and Control will be of interest to water network operators, consultants, and other industry practitioners who are about to embark on a water loss management programme, or who wish to review their existing procedures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0075MB6EU
• ISBN13: 9781900222112
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: IWA Publishing (Intl Water Assoc)
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"