Water Loss Seminar

This event qualifies for up to 14 Credit Hours

Preliminary Schedule is subject to change.

Day One (7 Credit Hours) Water Accountability, Water Audits and Data Validation
8:00-8:30 a.m.	Registration
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.	-Water Supply Infrastructure and Water Revenue Losses -Water Accountability and Water Efficiency
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m. - noon	-The AWWA Standard Water Audit Method and Free Tools -The Data Validation Process
noon - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch (AWWA Provides)
1:00 - 3:15 p.m.	-Compiling the Water Audit using the AWWA Free Water Software, an Interactive Exercise
3:15 - 3:30 p.m.	Break
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.	-Water Audit Data Collection: Good Practices -An Overview of Validated North American Utility Water Audit Data -Organizing the Water Loss Control Team
Day Two (7 Credit Hours) Controlling Non-Revenue Water, Particularly Real and Apparent Losses
8:00 - 10:00 a.m.	-Controlling Real Losses: Leakage and Pressure Management -The Nature and Occurrence of Leakage
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.- noon	-Assessing Leakage Volumes: Leakage Component Analysis -The Four Pillars of Real Loss Control -Creating a Cost-Effective Leakage and Pressure Management Program -Small Group Exercise: Leakage Compnent Analysis
noon - 1:00	Lunch (On your Own)
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.	-Controlling Apparent Losses: Revenue Protection -The Nature and Occurrence of Apparent Losses -Assessing Apparent Losses Via Component Analysis
2:30 - 2:45 p.m.	Break
2:45 - 4:30 p.m.	-The Four Pillars of Apparent Loss Control -Exercise: Customer Billing System Data -Creating a Cost-Effective Revenue Protection Program

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 37 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 was the recipient of the AWWA Peak Performance Award in 2016

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.

David Sayers has nearly 20 years of experience in the fields of water use analyses, water resources management, water conservation and water system audits. He has experience working in the United Kingdom and the United States and has worked for a water utility, a regulatory agency, and as a consultant. David is an active member of the AWWA Water Loss Control Committee and is the lead developer of the AWWA Free Water Audit Software and Compiler tool. He was the recipient of the AWWA Peak Performance Award in 2011.