Water Loss Control

Meetings and Workshops

Public Stakeholder Meeting #6 September 23, 2019, Sacramento

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Reference material for the workshop was circulated through State Water Board’s conservation list serve. Sign up for the email list at https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/resources/email_subscriptions/swrcb_subscribe.html

Public Stakeholder Meeting #5 June 7, 2019, Sacramento

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Materials for workshop (Uploaded June 11, 2019):

• Overview of framework
• Reference document describing preliminary assumptions and proposals for standard development
• Initial assumptions and considerations for calculations of benefits and costs for the economic model
• Calculation of standards, overview of compliance requirements and low water loss values
• Adjustments and variance process

Public Stakeholder Meetings #4 Sacramento and February 4, 2019, Chino
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• Staff proposal for framework of water loss performance standards
• Staff presentations:
  Framework overview | Adjustments and Compliance | Economic basis

Public Stakeholder Meeting #3 September 17, 2018, Los Angeles
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Presentations:

• Avoided Cost of Water, State Water Resources Control Board
• IRWD’s Water Loss Control Programs and Cost-Effectiveness, Irvine Ranch Water District
• Water Loss Control in Los Angeles, LA Department of Water & Power
• Overview of Life Cycle Cost Assessment: Case Study of LCA Alternatives Assessment of Lead-Free Cast Brass for the Potable Water Supply Components, University of California Los Angeles

Public Stakeholder Meeting #2 June 1, 2018, Oakland
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• Monitoring and Estimation Technologies | Pressure management | Technology-Constraint Matrix, State Water Resources Control Board
• Machine learning and Pipeline Replacement Prioritization, East Bay Municipal Utility District

Public Stakeholder Meeting #1 March 9, 2018, Sacramento
Agenda

• Water audit data and topics, State Water Resources Control Board
• Water Loss TAP findings, WSO

Water Loss Auditing

California Water Code Section 10608.34 requires urban retail water suppliers to conduct and submit validated water loss audit reports to the Department of Water Resources on October 1, annually.

California Water Code Section 10631 requires all urban water suppliers to submit water loss audits with their Urban Water Management Plans every five years to DWR.

Water Loss Audit Reports from the Department of Water Resources: Regulations and Submission

Water Audit Certificate Program by CA-NV AWWA’s Water Loss Collaborative

Technical Assistance

The State Water Resources Control Board awarded $3.2 million in funding in January 2016 for technical assistance programs for water suppliers to effectively conduct and validate water loss audits and comply with SB 555, through the formation of the California Water Loss Collaborative. The Water Loss Technical Assistance Program (TAP) provided training and validation to initiate California’s validated water loss auditing process.

Contacts

• Kartiki Naik
  Kartiki.Naik@Waterboards.ca.gov
(916) 319-9468


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