Water Loss Identification in Water Distribution System

Water distribution systems word wide is facing challenges of water and revenue losses. The rapidly growing demand of drinking water has due to increasing global change pressure such as urbanization, climate change, population growth, fluctuation of nature. There is a high probability of further reducing in the available water resource in the future, also high rate of infrastructure deterioration which will result in great loss of treated energized drinking water.

Identification of water losses can help to identify and reduce actual water losses, eliminate the need for facility to expand resources on costly repairs also protect public health from disease causing pathogens through reduction in potential entry points. This paper review identification of water losses in water distribution system. The aim is to identify major causes of water losses in water distribution system and quantifies these losses in terms of ratings. The methodology for this work was the response from expert and persons involved in public water distribution system. This review could be valuable reference resource for researcher dealing with water loss management in water distribution system.