Water Loss Seminar- Best Practice Water Audits and Loss Control Programs

How much water is your utility losing to leakage, customer meter error or water theft?

How can your utility determine the cost of uncaptured revenue from non-revenue water (NRW)?

A number of US regions now have state or regional agency water auditing requirements in place. Unfortunately, most agencies with a water audit requirement do not provide a means for comprehensive training of water utility personnel. This seminar will help utilities establish accountability by giving attendees instruction on the AWWA Standard Water Audit Methodology of compilation and data validation process. Attendees will learn the methods and technologies to economically control water and revenue losses by managing leakage and pressure to save water and optimizing revenue via revenue protection programs.

This two-day seminar offers hands-on training facilitated by experts from the AWWA Water Loss Control Committee.

Be sure to bring a laptop or personal device to the seminar! Attendees who have completed a water audit for their utility using the AWWA Free Water Audit Software are encouraged to bring an electronic copy of the audit.

Speaker and Presenter Information

George Kunkel is Principal of Kunkel Water Efficiency Consulting, a firm that specializes in water loss control in drinking water utilities. He has over 35 years of water utility and consulting experience and led the successful water loss control program in Philadelphia for over 20 years. His work assists water utilities in compiling realistic water audits of their operations and designing cost-effective Non-revenue water management strategies, including progressive leakage and pressure management, and revenue protection programs. He is chair of the AWWA subcommittee for the M36 guidance manual on water loss control and is a co-author of the AWWA Free Water Audit Software. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and leader of workshops on water loss control.

Will Jernigan is a Director with Cavanaugh, and a nationally recognized leader in Water Loss Management and Bioenergy with 15 years in the industry. Will presently serves as Program Manager for the ground-breaking multi-phase water loss program for the State of Georgia since 2012, which has included 3rd party validations for the State’s water audits and design and implementation of a validation certification and training program. Will also manages AWWA’s Water Audit Data Initiative, which pioneered the validation review framework beginning in 2011. Will is a Professional Engineer licensed in multiple states, and is a dynamic speaker who has delivered over 100 oral presentations and workshops on Water Loss Management in the past 10 years.