S3E16 - How To Save 126 Trillion Liters A Year? Solve Non-Revenue Water!

with 🎙️ Olivier Narbey, Senior Business Development Manager - Water Network Performance at GF Piping Systems 💧 GF Piping System is the leading flow solutions provider across the World. What we covered: 🍎 How Non-Revenue Water represents 126 billion cubic meters a year and an achievable saving potential of $37 billion a year 🍎 How the Non-Revenue Water (NRW) question is intricate and multi-faceted 🧮 How Water you lose on your network not only represents a direct cost but also an indirect one, as you have to produce new water accordingly 🍏 How innovative solutions like pressure reduction and control on the Water Network can reduce the Water Utilities' headache when it comes to non-revenue water 🍎 How from a certain point, you shall stop repairing and start rebuilding or replacing your network 🍎 How many problems come from parts of the networks that were supposed to be disconnected (but were not) 🧮 How managing a network is a long ball game, where you're juggling with limited budgets and compensating with time and delays 🍎 How low renewal rates mean expected lifetimes for your piping network which are way above what's reasonably feasible 🍏 How cutting your network into District Meter Areas (DMAs) and District Meter Zones (DMZs) helps you identifying leaks 🔍 How managing a network has much to do with forensics, and how you shall exploit every occasion to see the "body" 🍏 The three ways to regulate pressure on a water network 🍏 Water management in Algeria, Mozambique, or Vatican, Adoption curve for pressure regulating devices, Teaming up with an Oxford University spin-off... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 ➡️ Send your warm regards to Olivier Narbey on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-narbey-b6392610/ ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-save-136-trillion-liters-a-year-solve-non-revenue-water/ Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.