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Contribution to Increasing Efficiency in the Water Utility Sector - Case Study Kosovo

Due to the growing consumption of both energy and water and the growing demands for optimizing the operation of water supply systems, the need to reduce and control water losses and reduce them to the lowest possible levels is becoming more pronounced. The problem of commercial efficiency is present all over the world, especially in countries with a lower level of development. This is also the case with Kosovo, which as a small country with a lower level of development, has serious problems in terms of commercial efficiency. Increasing the efficiency of water supply is associated with the application of best available practices to reduce water losses and improve the level of collection. The average values of water losses in Kosovo range from 49-64 % of the produced (abstracted) water. In addition to high shares of water losses, low collection rates by water utilities are also present in Kosovo and usually range between 67 and 83 %. Improvement is possible through profiling the consumption of large consumers, installing and calibrating high-precision flow and pressure meters, remote and automatic meter reading, pressure management, finding illegal connections, selling overdue debts, and finally replacing worn- out parts of pipe network with new modern pipe materials, etc.

commercial efficiency ; water losses ; pressure management ; flow meters ; Kosovo water utilities

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