|
| |
| |
“The struggle towards achieving the year’s target of 28 percent NRW has become more uphill.”
|
|
| |
| |
“Despite the rise in accounted water loss this November, it was one of the lowest losses recorded since January.”
|
|
| |
| |
|
Non-revenue water this month registered a hefty 16.21 percent increase to 27.2 percent of total production from the year’s record low of 23.41 percent in October. This resulted from the 6.47 percent decrease in billed consumption, coupled with the 1.59 percent increase in total production within the one-month period.
Accounted and unaccounted water losses both recorded increases in volume and percentage to total production. In particular, water lost to mainline leaks in Dumoy, Toril, Lubogan and Toril systems surged from their month-ago levels.
|
|
NRW for the first eleven months of the year was slightly brought down to 28.25 percent, just a quarter of a percentage point away from the year’s target of 28 percent. With only a month to go before the year ends, the struggle towards achieving the year’s target has become more uphill since to do so would require NRW to register not more than 25.25 percent in December. Records show that in the eleven months of the district’s operations this year, NRW struck a level lower than this only once, and that was in October when it hit 23.41 percent. The second lowest was registered in January at 25.72 percent.
|
|
| |
|
| Accounted Water Loss Up 5.42% |
|
Water lost through accounted sources rose 5.42 percent this month to 389,355 cubic meters from last month’s 369,333. The increase was mainly due to mainline leaks, which drained away 30,000 cubic meters more this month than in October. In particular, mainline leaks during the month were more severe in Dumoy, Toril, Lubogan and Tugbok systems. In contrast, water lost to service line leaks fell 4.01 percent this month.
Despite the rise in accounted water loss this month, it was still one of the lowest losses recorded since January. In
|
|
fact, the trend has generally been that of a declining one, starting off with 766,000 cubic meters in January. Except for a distinctively high level in June at 914,000 cubic meters, accounted water loss followed a downward trail until it fell to below 400,000 cubic meters level in October and November. This could be the result of a more intensive leak detection and repair program. These reductions, however, were not able to be reverted back to billed consumption. Instead, the reductions were added to unaccounted water losses, which may have been caused by either metering inaccuracies, undetected leaks or illegal connections.
|
|
| |
|
| Water Collection Rises 2.29% |
|
Water collection this month increased 2.29 percent to PhP75.8 million from PhP74.1 million in October. This came about as a result of a remarkably large volume of water billed to the consumers in October for which the payment period fell this month. This brought the total water collection for the first eleven months of the year to PhP811 million, 5.13 percent higher than the same period last year’s PhP771.5 million water collection.
|
|
Total collection added up to PhP79.9 million for the current month, and PhP864.7 million for the eleven-month period, 9.3 and 4.6 percent higher compared to last year’s November and eleven-month period, respectively. The increases were incurred despite the declines in collection efficiency and on-time payment during the month.
|
|
|
|
