SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The San Antonio Water System has launched a new online dashboard that gives the public a closer look at how the utility is reducing water loss and managing the city’s water supply.<\/p>\n
The SAWS Non-Revenue Water Dashboard, now available at saw.org\/dashboard, provides monthly updates with charts and data that track water produced by the utility but not delivered to or billed to customers. The dashboard is part of SAWS’ effort to increase transparency while working toward its goal of reducing non-revenue water by 50% per connection per day by 2035.<\/p>\n
SAWS officials said the utility has already reduced non-revenue water by 26% through investments in infrastructure, technology and data-driven water management. The effort has improved response times for reported water main breaks and leaks.<\/p>\n
Non-revenue water includes water lost through leaks, water main breaks and other infrastructure failures, as well as water used for authorized but unbilled purposes such as firefighting, system flushing and maintenance.<\/p>\n
According to SAWS, the reduction in water loss is the result of several ongoing initiatives, including improving response times to water main breaks and leaks, using predictive analytics to detect hidden leaks before pipes fail, replacing aging Edwards Aquifer well meters with more accurate electronic meters, and proactively repairing or replacing high-risk water mains.<\/p>\n
The utility has also expanded the use of ConnectH2O electronic customer meters, which provide hourly water-use data, and improved the way it measures water used for public safety and system maintenance. SAWS said its long-running conservation programs have also helped reduce demand on the water system and lessen strain on aging infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Water loss is a challenge facing utilities nationwide as aging infrastructure and measurement limitations affect the amount of water that can be delivered and billed. SAWS said the new dashboard is intended to help residents better understand those challenges while tracking the utility’s progress over time.<\/p>\n
SAWS provides water and wastewater services to more than 2 million customers across the San Antonio region and plans to update the dashboard each month with the latest data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The San Antonio Water System has launched a new online dashboard that gives the public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-384995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}