Intermountain Section AWWA 2017 Annual Conference

During the summer of 2016, the Utah Division of Water Resources partnered with the Intermountain Section of AWWA to offer free training on the AWWA M36 Water Audits and Loss Control Programs. This manual and accompanying free water audit software is rapidly becoming the industry standard for water quantity auditing throughout the United States. It provides invaluable insight into system performance and how to save water and money that is lost or improperly measured within a distribution system. As part of the training, the division and AWWA partnered with Orem City, Granger-Hunter Imp. Dist., and Kearns Imp. Dist. to conduct a full water audit of their systems.

Highlights of the presentation include the following:

• Background of water accounting and water loss control efforts in the state.
• Review of water auditing methodology--its terminology, principles, and software.
• Summary of the water audit training program and feedback from participants.
• What do the results mean and what does the Division of Water Resources plan to do moving forward?