TUESDAY
 
Ballroom A
Ballroom B
Ballroom C
 

Session A5 - Water Loss Management in Romania (2)

Chair: Vasile Ciomos

Session B5 - Benchmarking and Water Audits

Chair: Dave Pearson

Session C5 - Pressure Management (2)

Chair: Julian Thornton

08:30-09:00

Relationship between water losses and financial elements – case study: the Romanian Water Sector

Augustin Boer
Romania

Audit of 29 water distribution networks of Romania

Jose Luis Valverde
Germany

Advanced pressure management via flow modulation; the Dartmouth Central DMA

Carl Yates
Canada

09:00-09:30

Measures for reduction of the water losses from the water distribution network of the localities located in Constanta County

Presura Aurel
Romania

The dimension and significance of Water Losses in Turkey

Mehmet Cakmakci
Turkey

Pressure-management in mature networks using batch-processed pressure-dependent hydraulic modeling

Stephen Tooms
UK

09:30-10:00

Reaching optimum level of losses in the distribution network – a balance between the rehabilitation measures and the supportability of the consumers

Gabriel Racoviţeanu
Romania

Consequence of measurement inaccuracies at a storage tank on water losses

Gerald Gangl
Austria

Sustainable leakage management by pressure control

Mike Wiltshire
UK

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
 

Session A6 - Leak Detection Processes and Technology (1)

Chair: Stuart Hamilton

Session B6 - Implementing Water Loss Reduction Projects

Chair: Mary Ann Dickinson

Session C6 - Leakage Reduction Theory (2)

Chair: Alex Rizzo

10:30-11:00

GIS acoustic noise mapping in Ottawa

Ken Brothers
Canada

The reality of undertaking a large leakage control project

Dewi Rogers
Italy

Quantification of meter errors of domestic users: a case study

Francisco Arregui de la Cruz
Spain

11:00-11:30

Using an AMR System to aid in the evaluation of water losses: a small DMA case study at East Bay Municipal Utility District, USA

Andrew Chastain-Howley
USA

Sustainable reduction of water losses in urban water distribution systems

Erwin Kober
Germany

Reduction of Apparent Losses at Belgrade Water Works

Stevo Savić
Serbia

11:30-12:00

Managing London’s leakage – how London’s other water company achieves its targets

Jo Parker
UK

Combating Non-Revenue Water in a large multi-functional company: a case study of EPAL, Portugal’s largest water supplier

Andrew Donnelly
Portugal

Accounting for all water delivered to customers

Tim Waldron
Australia

12:00-12:30

Presentation of the WLTF "Leak Detection Techniques and Practices" Guidance Notes

Richard Pilcher
UK

Water Loss Reduction Projects in Romania and Bulgaria

Ratu Raudu
JASPERS Bucharest

When customers don’t pay: an assessment of the problem of unpaid water bills

Roger Jones
UK

12:30-13:30 Lunch
 

Session A7 - Water Loss Management in Low Income Countries (3)

Chair: Roland Liemberger

Session B7 - Pressure Management (3)

Chair: Paul Fanner

Session C7 - Economics of Water Loss Reduction (2)

Chair: Marco Fantozzi

13:30-14:00

Water loss management for utilities in low-income countries: case studies from four African water utilities.

Sam Kayaga
UK

Pressure management extends infrastructure life and reduces unnecessary energy costs

Julian Thornton
Brazil

Managing leakage economically

Dewi Rogers
Italy

14:00-14:30

A case study of leakage management in Medellin City, Colombia

Fabio Garzón-Contreras
Columbia

Research on pressure-leakage relationship in DMA with different ways of controlling pressure

Wojciech Koral
Poland

Research for the establishment of an optimum water loss reduction level from the economic point of view

Alexandru Manescu
Romania

14:30-15:00

Non-Revenue Water Reduction in Indonesia – The Challenge and the Way Forward

Chris Ingram
Indonesia

A closer look at measured night flows in sectorised networks

Robert Warren
UK

Technical and economical evaluation of integrated approach to the water loss management in the Czech Republic

Zdeněk Sviták
Czech Republic

15:00-15:30 Coffee break
 

Poster Session

Chair: Stuart Hamilton

Water Projects Funding Workshop "How to fund it"

Chair: Christoph Gleitsmann,
EIB Luxembourg

 
15:30-16:00   Speakers (each 15 min), followed by discussion:

Mr. Andreas von Busch, Senior Desk Officer for Romania, European Commission DG Regio Brussels

Mr. Ralf Aymar, Environmental Expert, JASPERS Luxembourg

Mrs. Dana Craciunescu, Bankerin, EBRD Bucharest

Mr. Jean-Marc Martin, Senior Loan Officer for Romania and Bulgaria, EIB Luxembourg
 
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00