About this course
Overview
Most of the water a utility loses seeps out of small holes under pressure, which makes pressure the cheapest thing you can change. Delegates learn to set up district metered areas, measure what is genuinely going out, model the network, and design a pressure scheme that cuts losses while keeping supply at the tap.
What you will be able to do
Learning outcomes
- Put a number on what pressure is costing you in lost water
- Meter a zone and read what the data is telling you
- Model a network well enough to test a change before making it
- Specify valves and control settings for a scheme
- Show the water saved, with evidence behind it
What the course sets out to do
Course objectives
- Explain why pressure and leakage move together
- Set up and run district metered areas
- Build a working model of network pressure and demand
- Design a pressure control scheme
- Prove a reduction using field measurement
Who it is for
Target audience
Distribution engineers, non-revenue water teams, and network operations staff at water utilities.
Before you start
Prerequisites
A background in water distribution or civil engineering will help. No modelling experience needed.