World Bank research pointed out that the world is estimated to lose 32 billion cubic meters of physical water every year, half of which occurs in developing countries. The water supply company incurs huge financial costs in the water treatment and pumping process, and can only watch the water leak back to the ground and lose the revenue from the water that could be sold. If water losses in developing countries are halved, the water saved can be enough to supply about 90 million people.
We refer to this type of water as non-revenue water or water that is lost after extraction or whose destination is unknown.
Better management of non-revenue water and protection of precious water resources have become increasingly important. Non-revenue water management enables utilities to expand and improve services, improve financial performance, make cities more attractive, enhance climate resilience, and reduce energy consumption.
In water-stressed environments, non-profit water management can often bring excellent cost-effectiveness compared to increasing water supply. At the same time, the revenue generated from the saved water can improve the bottom line of service providers, and reducing water extraction can increase the resilience of cities.
The reasons for the lack of progress in the utility sector include weak capacity, lack of incentives, poor financial discipline, and insufficient effort to find and repair leaks compared to building new treatment facilities. These factors create a lifeless atmosphere. At present, pressure from climate change, water scarcity and increasing consumer expectations is gradually awakening this atmosphere.
At present, when the PBC concept has been proven effective, the challenge is how to streamline and simplify the preparation and contracting process for non-revenue water PBC projects. The World Bank worked with the International Water Association and collaborated with the Inter-American Development Bank to jointly advocate for the reduction of non-revenue water and create a more dynamic market at the national and international levels. We have worked with multiple potential customers in various regions to introduce non-revenue water PBC contracts as part of the utility company’s performance and sustainability improvement plan.
PBC is a very good ways at present to solve the non-revenue water. in the system, as a professional smart water meter provider, we known that it have two ways to to make sure to achieve the high efficiency and good performance. one is use the WATER METER with valve, another is use the ultrasonic meter to supply a mass of data to the final system to help the administrator to analyse the leakage position and to provide the reference to make decision.
SH Meters as a final smart water metering solution provider have been more than 10 years experience in the market to provide lots of successful project to lots of countries and regions. let us work together to help all the developing countries people to use the cheap water in any time and place. let us to help the water utilities to reduce the non-revenue water.