Letter: Water service providers should reduce leaks to the minimum, and regularly report how well they are doing

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Letter: Water service providers should reduce leaks to the minimum, and regularly report how well they are doing
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“If all domestic supplies were metered it would be obvious how efficient they were, in particular in managing leakage,” writes Richard in Salt Lake City.

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Instead of begging for further reductions in domestic use , we need to abandon using property taxes to cover water service; this retrograde system means that water authorities’ revenues are assured no matter how well or badly they run their systems. The latest report I can find on line is the Utah State Water Plan for 2013, which includes the truly amazing statement : “Fixing water leaks has not traditionally been part of future water planning”. That report gave Salt Lake City data for 2003 as showing leakage of 4.3 million gallons/day, “a very creditable performance for a utility that does not have an active leakage control programme.”

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