
Access to safe drinking water may be a recognized human right, but that doesn’t make it easy or cost efficient for cities to deliver.
Access to safe drinking water may be a recognized human right, but that doesn’t make it easy or cost efficient to deliver. It is a capital intensive sector with many parts of the world finding it costly to get water from the source to end users. At the same time, quality standards and expectations are rising. Urbanization and development are creating new demand. And, all the while, assets are aging. The need for efficiency has never been stronger.
Drinking water supply services encompass the design, construction, maintenance, repair and operation of water treatment and water distribution systems, regardless of the source — lake, river, well or salt water. This may also include customer billing, internal support services and management costs.
Efficiency
Operating and capital cost per cubic meter of water supplied. This measure combines the total drinking water supply operating costs with the total capital costs and divides the sum by the number of reported cubic meters of water supplied.
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Water leakage as a percent of water supplied. This measure calculates the difference between the amount of drinking water treated and the amount supplied to identify how much water is being lost during transmission.
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