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WHAT WILL BE PRESENTED?

This presentation highlights the City of Ekurhuleni's experience in developing an effective water demand management programme, addressing problem statements, objectives, indicators, interventions, and conclusions. It includes reducing non-revenue water, stakeholder engagements, educational campaigns, and strategies to overcome NRW reduction barriers for sustainable water management.

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  1. DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE WATER DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME BY A MUNICIPALITY: CITY OF EKURHULENI’S EXPERIENCE May 2019 S

  2. WHAT WILL BE PRESENTED? • Problem Statement • Objectives • Water Loss Indicators for the City of Ekurhuleni • Element of Water Demand Management Programme • Interventions • Conclusion

  3. PROBLEM STATEMENT • SA average annual rainfall is 464mm vs global average of 860mm per annum; • The latest results from the IVRS indicate that the demand is currently exceeding the available supply; • RW’s abstraction licence will not be increased until the next Lesotho Highland Water Project Phase II is commissioned in 2025; • RW restricted to 1600 million m3/annum and is enforcing this restriction onto its water users through Project 1600; • CoE capped at 388 million m3/annum and the current water demand is 353 million m3/annum

  4. OBJECTIVES • All municipality within in the IVRS must target a zero or negative water demand growth rate • CoE targets a zero growth rate in system input volume for the next 6 year • Increase billed consumption by 15% for the next 6 year • Reduce NRW to 20% by 2025 • 20 % alternative water supply by 2030

  5. CoE WATER BALANCE APRIL 2019

  6. BACKGROUND: NON-REVENUE WATER (NRW) • World NRW average (2009/2010): 36.2% • National NRW average (2012/2013): 34.6% • Metros NRW average (2013/2014): 34.5% • CoE NRW figure (April 2019): 33.4%

  7. CoE NON REVENUE WATER NRW

  8. WEB BASED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Sewer Network Water Network

  9. NRW AND WUE MAPS

  10. PRIORITISATION OF DMAS FROM HIGHEST TO LOWEST NRW Sorted from highest to lowest NRW

  11. CREATE SMALL SECTION DMA

  12. VOLUME AND COST ANALYSIS

  13. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

  14. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

  15. STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT • “Stakeholders are people, groups, or institutions which are likely to be affected by a proposed intervention (either negatively or positively), or those which can affect the outcome of the intervention” Rietbergen-McCracken et al. (1998)

  16. STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT • Primary stakeholders: Direct beneficiaries and concerned person • eg End users, etc. • Secondary stakeholders: Intermediaries in the process of delivering aid to primary stakeholders eg Professionals, schools and research institutions, NGO • Tertiary stakeholders: Decision, policy makers, • e.g. Politicians, senior civil servants, governmental bodies, etc.

  17. STAKEHOLDERS

  18. EDUCATION AND AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS

  19. EDUCATION AND AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS

  20. REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE.. THE 5 RS

  21. 2015 STRATEGY: WC/WDM INITIATIVES

  22. 2015 STRATEGY: WC/WDM INITIATIVES

  23. BARRIERS TO SUCCESSFUL NRW REDUCTION • Lack of political awareness • Inaccurate data • Lack of project Priotisation • Employee performance appraisals do not support NRW reduction

  24. TAKE HOME • Use the right KPI for NRW • High quality product pay off in the long term • Ensure the highest return on investment • Ongoing rehabilitation of water distribution network • Integrate NRW into day to day operation • Monitor and control leakage • Train technical staff • Benchmark for efficiency

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