Tap Water Costs and Service Sustainability, a Close Relationship

摘要: Water is currently an essential and strategic resource for society its importance will rise in the future due to increasing number of threats. However, water management not up par taking into consideration this well acknowledged importance. Generally speaking, use efficient loss figures are often too high. The reasons behind situation complex diverse, however, principle, they can be divided four categories: cultural, political, social economic. Since latter most importance, paper focuses on costs from source tap. economic analysis presented quantifies a sustainable urban service structured way. second part present case study which losses linked leakage assessed as function how expenses recovered. cost apparent could also similar way always higher, since (unlike real ones) throughout whole cycle, thus unit costs.