Water Use Auditing Manual
This guide is intended to give water utility managers, board members and operators a broad overview of water use auditing concepts and a specific method for categorizing all water use into a standard water balance. The standard water balance may be used to identify areas to increase revenue and to calculate meaningful water use performance measures for your water utility.
Three technical assistance providers and the State of New Mexico teamed-up to develop guidebooks to help water and wastewater systems better manage their water resources and plan for their future. The guidebooks are titled:
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Water Use Auditing: A guide to accurately measure water use and water loss |
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Financial Planning and Rate Setting Guidebook |
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Asset Management: A Guide for Water and Wastewater Systems |
These guidebooks address core issues regarding water system sustainability: auditing water use to reduce water losses and increase system efficiency, financial planning and management to ensure sufficient revenues to sustain operations, and asset management to allow the system to provide a sustained level of service at the lowest life cycle cost. Water and wastewater system owners, operators, managers, and board members will find that these guidebooks are useful tools for assessing the current status of their operations and for developing strategic plans for sustainable water and wastewater service.
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Water Use Auditing: A guide to accurately measure water use and water loss |