By completing these five self-paced eLearning courses, water utility staff will gain a foundation of useful knowledge to assist their efforts in effectively managing Non-revenue water in their system.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
All drinking water utilities incur Non-revenue Water (NRW) which includes system leakage and customer metering and billing issues that result in missing revenue. Excessive source water withdrawals from high leakage strain water resources, while lost revenue shrinks water utility funding for maintenance and system upgrades. With increasing regulatory requirements, cost constraints, and a changing climate threatening the availability of some water supplies, water utility managers need effective tools to contain NRW to economically sustainable levels.
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) provides best practice tools, methods, and guidance to water utilities on NRW management. Describing these capabilities – and the way for water utility staff to implement them – is the primary objective of this eLearning series of courses. The series highlights the use of the latest version (6.0) of the AWWA Free Water Audit Software, the primary tool to compile a water audit to quantify and assess the components of NRW. It also explains the ways to improve water accountability, effectively control leakage, and to ensure reliable metering and billing of customer water consumption.
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EL311- Assessing Non-revenue Water with the AWWA Water Audit Method
Course Length: 2 Hours
This course explores the differences between facilitator, trainer, leader and presenter. Learn about different types of meetings and their needs and participant expectations. Understand how to gain participation in meetings.
Module 1: What Does A Facilitator Really Do? Module 2: Presenter, Trainer, Facilitator Roles Module 3: What Type of Meeting is This Module 4: Levels of Participation Module 5: Meeting Design Checklist
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EL312 - Accurate Metering of Water Production Flows
Course Length: 1 Hour / 0.1 CEU*
This eLearning course gives students the information that they need to effectively manage production flowmeters to produce accurate production data for their operations and for the annual water audit.
Course Description: Course participants will learn that accurate metering of production flows is highly important, in terms of managing water supplies, but also in providing accurate data to the annual water audit. Production flows are the largest annual volumes of water measured in the water utility, and they are measured by the largest flowmeters in the water system. It is critical that water utilities manage these assets reliably to produce accurate data, and this course provides detailed guidance on this activity.
Module 1: The Importance of Accurate Production Flow Data Module 2: Effective management of water production flowmeters Module 3: Managing production flow data accurately
EL312 Learning Objectives:
• Identify those water flows that are classified as production flows
• Recognize the critical importance of accurate production flow data to water accountability
• Distinguish the primary types of production flowmeters used in drinking water supplies
• Recall the basic ways to test production flowmeter performance and calculate the accuracy rating from typical testing data
• Recognize that production flowmeters are important assets that must be maintained, repaired, and replaced on a regular basis as part of good asset management
• Tabulate and Analyze production flowmeter data to observe flow trends and identify data errors and data gaps
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EL313 - Effective Leakage and Pressure Management
This eLearning course gives students the information on the leakage and pressure management that they need to control their distribution system leakage in a cost-effective manner.
Module 1: How Leakage Occurs and What it Costs Your Utility Module 2: Proactive Leakage Management Module 3: Pressure Management Benefits and Applications Module 4: Keeping Leakage Control Efforts Going
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EL314 - Customer Metering and Billing Operations for Optimized Revenue Capture
Course participants will learn about the necessity of accurate customer metering, meter reading, and billing operations to ensure a reliable revenue stream. Utility policy on meter and billing can result in Apparent Losses just as inaccurate water meters and billing system errors can. It is important for water utilities to stay current with metering and meter reading technology and employ rational policies to optimize their revenue capture.
Module 1: Tracking Customer Water Consumption Module 2: Managing Customer Water Meters and Meter Reading Module 3: Efficient Billing Operators to Maintain the Revenue Stream
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Sustaining the Non-Revenue Water Management Program | EL315
Course Length: 1 Hour
Course participants will learn the ways to keep their Non-revenue Water management program going once it is launched. This final course in the series brings together concepts from the first four courses and provides program management guidance including compiling the water audit every year and using its results to assist the planning, budgeting, implementation, and sustainability of the program. Creating a vision for the next five, ten, or more years is important to keep the program going and keeping Non-revenue Water controlled.
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