MONDAY
 
Ballroom A
Ballroom B
Ballroom C
 

Session A1 - Water Loss Management in Romania (1)

Chair: Prof. Anton Anton

Session B1 - Water Audits

Chair: Malcom Farley

Session C1 - Economics of Water Loss Reduction (1)

Chair: Stuart Trow

08:30-09:00

The Water Loss Action Plan for Bucharest

Liviu Litescu
Romania

Gauteng water cycle management project: enabling a water balance

Hannes Buckle
South Africa

Including the effects of pressure management in calculations of short-run Economic Leakage Levels

Marco Fantozzi
Italy

09:00-09:30

Measures for increasing the water distribution network viability in Cluj-Sălaj

Calin Neamtu
Romania

Acceptable level of water losses in Geneva

Hervé Guibentif
Switzerland

Water Loss Control in North America, more cost effective than customer side conservation – why wouldn’t you do it?!

Reinhard Sturm
USA

09:30-10:00

Water loss management in the distribution system of Brasov city

Teodor Popa
Romania

Utilising the water balance at a water supply system level

Gary Wyeth
Malaysia

An approach to determining the true value of lost water: California’s Avoided Cost Model

Mary Ann Dickinson
USA

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
 

Session A2 - District Metered Areas (DMAs)

Chair: Stephen Tooms

Session B2 - Benchmarking and Performance Indicators (1)

Chair: Bambos Charalambous

Session C2 - Water Loss Management in Low Income Countries (1)

Chair: Chris Ingram

10:30-11:00

Night flow analysis of pilot DMAs in Ottawa

Osama Hunaidi
Canada

Water Loss Performance Indicators

Roland Liemberger
Austria

Water loss management strategies in Kayseri, Turkey

Oktay Ozhan
Turkey

11:00-11:30

Checking to see when a DMA is a DMA and the failures experienced around the world

Stuart Hamilton
UK

Leakage Benchmarking - an update from the IWA Water Loss Task Force

Ronnie McKenzie
South Africa

Managing UFW

Sattar Mahmoudi
Iran

11:30-12:00

Optimum size of district metered areas

Osama Hunaidi
Canada

Experiences with water loss PIs in the Austrian Benchmarking Project

Jörg Kölbl
Austria

Case studies: international experience with NRW reduction

Pierre Hebel
France

12:00-13:30

Sustainable District Metered Areas

John Morrison
UK

Analysing London’s leakage

Jo Parker
UK

Evolution of leakage reduction practices in Mexico since 1995

Carlos E. Mariano-Romero
Mexico

12:30-13:30 Lunch
 

Session A3 - Pipeline Rehabilitation and Replacement

Chair: Tim Waldron

Session B3 - Pressure Management (1)

Chair: Dewi Rogers

Session C3 - Leakage Reduction Theory (1)

Chair: Osama Hunaidi

13:30-14:00

Alternative approaches to setting targets for water losses in water supply zones

Stuart Trow
UK

Case studies in applying the IWA WLTF approach in the West Balkan region: pressure management

Jurica Kovač
Croatia

Leakage minimization in water distribution systems by optimal valves’ setting using genetic algorithm

M. Tabesh
Iran

14:00-14:30

Do you know how many of your colleagues will come to your funeral?

David Pearson
UK

Pressure management works ... and doesn’t!

Paul Fanner
UK

Investigation of water leaks in water distribution networks - case study

Sorin Perju
Romania

14:30-15:00

An action planning model to control for Non-Revenue Water

Michel Vermersch
France

Design and establishment of a very large scale low pressure DMA project

Thatchai Chuenchom
Thailand

Predicting leakage rates through background losses and unreported burst modelling

Bremond Bernard
France

15:00-15:30 Coffee break
 

Session A4 - Pipeline Rehabilitation and Replacement

Chair: Jo Parker

Session B4 - Pressure Management (2)

Chair: Ronnie McKenzie

Session C4 - Water Loss Management in Low Income Countries (2)

Chair: Sattar Mahmoudi

15:30-16:00

GIS in Vienna - How to record the condition of the distribution network?

Michaela Hladej
Austria

Water saving evaluation applying a pressure management strategy

Enrique Cabrera, Jr.
Spain

Active leakage control project: the city of Skopje, Macedonia

Bojan Ristovski
Macedonia

16:00-16:30

Managing the “Repair or Replace” dilemma on Water Leakages

Symeon Christodoulou
Cyprus

The modulation of the pressure in Casablanca

Elhassane Benahmed
Morocco

Water losses in the Maputo water supply system

Jánio Langa
Mozambique

16:30-17:00

Water loss reduction and pipe rehabilitation strategy in Vienna

Franz Weyrer
Austria

Effective pressure management of District Metered Areas

Bambos Charalambous
Cyprus

NRW experience in Johor, Malaysia - a case study in NRW reduction

Gary Wyeth
Malaysia

17:00-17:30

Efficient reduction of water losses with the use of NODIG pipe rehabilitation technologies

Ulrike Rabmer-Koller
Austria