DRAFT DETAILED AGENDA - Water Loss 20193 DRAFT DETAILED AGENDA Sunday - 22 September 2019 Preconference workshop Hotel International, 10:00 – 16:00 Monday – 23 September 2019 Palace

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DRAFT DETAILED AGENDA

Sunday - 22 September 2019

Preconference workshop

Hotel International, 10:00 – 16:00

Monday – 23 September 2019

Palace of Parliament – N. Balcescu Hall

08:30 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:45 Official Opening

10:45 – 12:00 Session I - Regional activities in the context of NRW

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 13:00 Session II - Regional activities in the context of NRW (cont.)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 Session III – Network Zoning and DMA Design


16:30 – 17:30 Session IV– Customer Metering

19:00 – 21:00 Dinner – Chateau Restaurant

Tuesday – 24 September 2019

Palace of Parliament – N. Balcescu Hall

09:00 – 10:45 Session V – NRW Assessment and Strategy Design


11:15 – 12:45 Session VI – Leak Detection


14:00 – 15:45 Session VII – Institutional Issues


16:15 – 18:00 Session VIII – Non Revenue Water Management

19:00 – 22:30 Dinner – Restaurant Terasa Doamnei

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - 25 to 27 September, 2019

Post conference tour

3 Castles: Peles, Cantacuzino and Bran

City of Brasov & Rasnov Fortress

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Preconference workshop Sunday, 22 September

Hotel International, 10:00 – 16:00

What you need to know about water loss performance indicators (… and other tricks!)

Around the world, water utilities, regulators and water professionals of all sorts continuing to use a misleading

and over-simplifying performance indicator – NRW expressed as percentage of system input volume.

Projects valued at many hundreds of millions of Euros or Dollars deemed to have failed – but maybe they

haven’t and only a wrong indicator has been used.

When assessing the NRW situation of a water utility, comparing different utilities, planning water loss

reduction interventions or monitoring projects the right indicators have to be used.

This workshop will explain the principles and make participants understand the strengths and weaknesses

of the different PIs, when to use and how to calculate them.

Target Audience:

- Policy makers and regulators

- Water utility managers

- Consultants

- Representatives from International Funding Agencies and NGOs

Expected level of expertise of participants:

- Basic water sector knowledge - Proficiency in English or Romanian language

Learning Objectives:

The objective of the course is to give the Learner a good understanding on:

How to choose water loss performance indicators

How to calculate the most appropriate performance indicator

Draft Schedule

10:00 – 10:30 Introduction to Day

10:30 – 11:30 Understanding the basics

11:30 – 12:30 Group work: calculating water loss performance indicators

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Continuation of Group work

14:30 – 15:30 Role play (different stakeholders arguing about water loss levels using different PIs)

15:30 – 16:00 Wrap-up and closing

Trainer:

Roland Liemberger, Austria

Training Costs:

IWA member – 75 Euro

Non IWA member – 100 Euro

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Key Speakers

Stuart Hamilton is a qualified Civil Engineer, a Chartered Environmentalist,

Chartered Manager, Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and

Environmental Management, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management

and a Fellow of the Chartered Plumbing and Heating Engineers. Stuart started

working in the water sector in 1982 before leaving Anglian Water in 1994 to

start his own Specialist Leak Detection / NRW company building this to be one

of the largest privately owned company in the world prior to selling to a UK

water company. Stuart continued his role is business and in 2011 purchased a technology company

completing internal pressurized CCTV inspections for condition assessment and leakage control. Based on

this Stuart is very hands on in the water distribution system and has completed projects throughout Africa,

Asia, USA, Caribbean, Australia, Middle East and Europe. Stuart is a Fellow of the International Water

Association and currently Chair of the IWA Water Loss Specialist Group having previously served as

secretary and leader of the ALC initiatives group.

Bambos Charalambous is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Chartered

Environmentalist and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and

Environmental Management. His experience in water related fields spans over 40

years and has worked on several projects in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle

East. He has wide experience in urban water distribution network management,

including Intermittent Water Supply, Non-Revenue Water and Water Loss

Management. From 1995 to 2012 he was heading the Technical Services of the

Water Board of Lemesos, a public water utility in Cyprus, with responsibilities

over all technical and managerial matters, including planning, operation and

maintenance of the water supply and distribution systems. Since 2012 he is a NRW and Water Utility

Governance consultant and has served internationally on senior consultancy assignments with Water

Utilities, IFIs and Water Associations. He is a Fellow of the International Water Association, a former chair

of the IWA Water Loss Specialist Group, current Chair of the IWA Intermittent Water Supply Specialist

Group and the current President of the Cyprus Water Association.

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Key Speakers

Roland Liemberger from Vienna, Austria, has worked on water distribution

network efficiency, in particular water loss management, for the last 30 years. He

has worked in more than 40 different countries, primarily in developing world. He

has helped to improve water utility efficiency in cities as different as Dushanbe

(Tajikistan) and Geneva (Switzerland). No water loss assessment is too small for

him – and no project too large, as he has demonstrated when he designed and

managed the world’s largest water loss reduction project in Manila (Philippines).

Roland is NRW advisor at Miya, a global water efficiency solution provider. He is a Fellow of the

International Water Association where he held different positions. His main interests are water audits

and the development of water loss reduction strategies.

Professor Ioan Bica is a civil engineer with 40 years professional experience. He

is professor at the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest,

Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Protection. He has a wide range of

experience in water resources management, environment politics,

environment impact assessment, environment protection. He is also

specialized in the area of urban water infrastructure, water distribution and

waste water collection. Author and co-author of 3 patents in the field of

Hydraulics and Groundwater Protection. He is author and co-author of many

original projects for water infrastructure, environmental impact and risk assessment, strategic environment

assessment (more than 70 studies), most of them related to water and waste water infrastructure

development and rehabilitation under European Union financial support. Author and co-author of training

and scientific manual related to Hydraulics and Environment Protection. He is high level researcher in Water

Management, Applied Hydraulics and Groundwater management and quality protection. He is Director for

UTCB of the Research projects financed under Horizon 2020 program of EU - BRIGAID - Bridging the gap for

innovation in disaster resilience (2016 – 2020). He is Vice-president of the Romanian Water Association

(ARA), and President of Muntenia Branch of the Romanian Environment Association (ARM).

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Draft General Program

Monday – 23 September 2019, 08:30 – 09:30

Registration

Monday – 23 September 2019, 09:30 – 10:45

Official Opening

Time Presentation title Presenter

09:30 Welcome remarks Felix Stroe, ARA President

09:45 Welcome and keynote speech Stuart Hamilton, Chair of the IWA Water Loss Specialist Group

10:15 Welcome and advance solution presentation Bogdan Ardeleanu, General Director Seba KMT - Gold Sponsor

Monday - 23 September 2019, 10:45 – 13:00

Session I - Regional activities in the context of NRW

Moderator: Bambos Charalambous

Time Presentation title Presenter, Country

10:45 NRW activities in Romania Silviu Lacatusu, Romania

11:00 NRW activities in IAWD Philip Weller, Danube Region

11:15 NRW activities in Bulgaria Ivan Ivanov, Bulgaria

11:30 NRW activities in Hungary Géza Csőrnyei, Hungary

11:45 NRW activities in Serbia Marina Nikolić, Serbia


Session II - Regional activities in the context of NRW (cont.)

12:30 Experiences in Real Loss Assessment 10-years after implementing the ILI as decisive Key-PI in Austria

Joerg Koelbl, Austria

12:45 Non-revenue water reduction challenges in Albania Enkelejda Gjinali, Albania

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch Break

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Session III – Network Zoning and DMA Design

Moderator: Atanas Paskalev


14:30 DMA zoning at Regional Water Company Prishtina - Prishtina Distribution Network

Ilir Abdullahu, Kosovo

14:45 Establishing DMAs and Managing Pressures in Overpressured Systems. Case Study in the City of Onesti

Alexandru Aldea, Romania

15:00 Partially corrugated water tube to reduce leaking from service lines

Benoît Van Hecke, Belgium

15:15 Comprehensive model analysis for high water distribution networks performance

David Duccini, France

15:30 Tradition of ignoring continuous non-revenue water management in water utilities in south-east Europe

Dijana Draganovic Bosnia and Herzegovina

15:45 Water Loss Management in Calarasi Water Utility

Petronel Birjaru, Romania

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break


Session IV – Customer Metering

Moderator: Enkelejda Gjinali


16:30 Apparent losses control – Customer meters renewal policy optimization

Barbara Barbosa, Portugal

16:45 Smart Meter Park Operation: Lessons Learned

Adrian Rubio, Spain

17.00 Asheville NRW Program Takes Commercial Meter Testing to the Next Level for Real Payback

Steve Cavanaugh, USA

17:15 AQUAWAN - Intelligent System for Remote Reading Smart Water Meters, Using the LoRaWAN Communication Protocol

Alin Anchidin, Romania

19:00 – 22:00 Dinner – Chateau Restaurant

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Draft Detailed Program

Tuesday – 24 September 2019, 09:00 – 10:45

Session V – NRW Assessment and Strategy Design Moderator: Roland Liemberger

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Presentation title Presenter, Country

09:00 Practical Aspects for Water Loss PI's Targets in Water Distribution Systems

Alexandru Aldea, Romania

09:15 The State to State Domino Effect - World’s Largest Level 1 Validated Water Audit Data Set compels US utilities, regulatory and EPA financing programs to mandate IWA/AWWA Water Loss Best Practices


09:30 Water loss reduction using digital solutions For work force management

Valentin Zaharia, Romania

09:45 Sustained leakage reduction at an ILI of 0.6 – Lessons learned from the ongoing water loss control program of Waterbedrijf Groningen

Cor Merks, Netherlands

10:00 Identifying water loss zones by means of flow metering

Sorin Murariu, Romania

10:30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

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Bl.C6, et.6, ap.25, sect.1, Bucureşti

Tel. 021 2309138 Fax 021 2039381

Internet: www.sebakmt.com

E-mail: [email protected]

Seba Dynatronic®, a member of the Megger Group, is a world leader in the production of individual

equipment and fully-equipped test vans for locating losses in water distribution networks, cathodic

protection pipelines and faults in power or telecommunication cables, with a field experience of

over 65 years. The company also manufactures buried pipes and cables locators.

Headquartered in Baunach - Bavaria, the company has subsidiaries on

all continents. "The key word of our philosophy is TRAINING." Seba

Dynatronic® offers its clients every year a number of seminars

organized at the seminar centre in Baunach - Germany, or at the

beneficiaries' headquarters where more than 30,000 specialists from

120 countries, including Romania, have already participated.

All major water companies in Romania have purchased

from our company portable equipment to locate network

water losses, which have proven their robustness and

efficiency in operation, with more than 75 test vans

being delivered at the time.

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It is a great pleasure to introduce our range of tools and equipment produced by our company and used in the field of operation / maintenance of water pipelines, district heating and sewerage:

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Tuesday - 24 September 2019, 11:15 – 12:45

Session VI – Leak Detection

Modetator: Stuart Hamilton


11:00 The new technologys in water losses detection

Ivan Ilie, Romania

11:15 Satellite based Leak detection – Case studies in Mitrovica (Kosovo) and Skopje (North Macedonia)

Bojan Ristovski, North Macedonia

11:30 Case studies on using unmanned aerial vehicle

Alexandru Postavaru, Romania

11:45 Technology and application of leak detection methods for large and small diameter pipes

Pedro Pina, Portugal

12:00 Post Meter Water Leakage Detection Using Smart Metering

Habib Muhammetoglu, Turkey

12:15 The leak detection project of the Walloon Water Company

Denis Devos, Belgium



Session VII – Institutional Issues

Moderator: Ioan Bica


14:00 Addressing Future Human Resources Challenges in the Region of Southeast Europe in NRW Context

Jurica Kovac, Croatia

14:15 How to Design a Performance Based Non-Revenue Water Management Contract

Roland Liemberger , Austria

14:30 Consultancy in the conceptual management of a water supply system with the lowest production price

Cosmin Tobolcea, Romania

14:45 Digital Water System: The Case of Gandia

Manuel Roldan, Spain

15:00 Catawba-Wateree: North Americas first River Basin Water Loss Regional Strategy


15:15 Commercial Losses - The low hanging fruit

Bambos Charalambous, Cyprus

15:30 Implementation Strategy for the "Regional Project for the Development of the Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in Iasi County, during period 2014-2020", in order to limit the NRW amount in the operation of drinking water supply systems

Apetroi Ioan-Vladut, Romania


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Session VIII – Non Revenue Water Management

Moderator: Bambos Charalambous


16:15 Budapest Waterworks experience in Management of Water Losses

Evelin Madzin / László Varga, Hungary

16:30 Considerations on water losses from storage tanks

Stefania Chirica, Romania

16:45 Water Loss Reduction in Braila Water Utility

Stere Jiru, Romania

17:00 Using a hydraulic model for reducing the non-revenue water in case of a village

Alin Anchidin, Romania

17:15 Adaptive algorithm for water loss estimation in networks based on advanced analysis of Minimum Night Flow (MNF)

Vicente David, Spain

17:30 Decreasing of non-revenue water volume in the Chirita Water Plant of Apavital Iasi

Dan Popovici, Romania

17:45 Official closing

19:00 - 22:00 Dinner – Restaurant Terasa Doamnei

Water Loss 2019 Team:

Scientific Committee

Chair: Bambos Charalambous (Cyprus) Ioan Bica (Romania)

Sergiu Calos (Rep. of Moldova) Enkelejda Gjinali (Albania)

Stuart Hamilton (UK) Roland Liemberger (Austria) Atanas Paskalev (Bulgaria)

[email protected]

Organising Committee

Chair: Felix Stroe Constantin Predoi

Silviu Lacatusu Alina Rapcencu

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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Post cenference tour

DAY 1 (September 25)

Meeting with the hotel guide during the morning.

Departure on the Bucharest - Sinaia - Busteni - Brasov route

The first stop is in Sinaia to visit Peles Castle, the former residence

of the royal family, an architectural jewel built by Carol I, the first

king of Romania.

Lunch included

Visit Cantacuzino Castle in Busteni. It was built in 1911 at the

request of prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino. The castle is

surrounded by a very beautiful park that offers a superb view over

the Bucegi Mountains.

Check in hotel Brasov

Brasov city tour. Visit the medieval center of the city, including

the main tourist attractions: Council Square, Black Church, Sforii

Street, White Tower and Black Tower, Fisherman's Bastion

Dinner included

Accommodation Hotel Q Brasov or similar

DAY 2 (26 September)

Breakfast at the hotel

Visit the Rasnov Fortress, built in the 14th century, to defend

against the attacks of the enemy armies, currently one of the best

preserved fortifications in Transylvania.

Visit the famous Bran Castle, known as the Castle of Dracula,

named after the legend of Bram Stoker, which depicts the voivode

Vlad Tepes, recognized for his tyrannical methods to eliminate the

enemies.

Lunch included on the route

The church and fortified fortress from Prejmer, a medieval tourist

destination, located about 15 km from Brasov and included in the

UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, started in the 13th century.

Dinner included

Accommodation Hotel Q Brasov or similar

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Day 3 (September 27)

Breakfast at the hotel.

Check out the hotel

09:00 Departure from Brasov to Henri Coanda Otopeni

International Airport

Price: 375 euro / person

The rate includes:

Accommodation for 2 nights single use room with breakfast

included Hotel Q or similar

2 meals and 2 dinners

Private coach transport throughout the trip

English-speaking companion guide throughout the trip

Entrances to the tourist objectives mentioned in the program

The rate does not include:

Other meals other than those mentioned in the program

Entrances to other tourist attractions other than those mentioned

in the program

Personal expenses

List of photos:

Peles Castle overview, Peles Castle interior, Cantacuzino Castle

overview, Cantacuzino Castle Interior, Bucegi Mountains – view

from Cantacuzino Castle, Brasov City Sqare, Black Church Brasov,

Bran Castle overview, Rasnov Fortress overview

The participation in the post Conference tour is optional and is not

included in the fee of the conference.

For register to participate please contact us at [email protected].

The organiser will confirm your registration in two working days.


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The Water Loss Specialist Group is

strongly focused on all treated water

that is lost, which is mostly from

underground leaks on water-mains and

water service pipes, and also how to

reduce those losses through leak

detection and hydraulic control.

However those losses include any

water that has entered the networks following treatment, and fails to get through to

consumers/customers. Identifying how much water is being lost is the recommended starting place

for utilities and practioners. The group has developed a method of accounting for all water entering

a water supply system, and this process has been accepted world –wide by everyone associated with

managing water networks. The terminology then changed from “Unaccounted For Water”’ to “Non

Revenue Water”, on the basis that all water can now be accounted for, albeit that the IWA process

for accounting for water will highlight the strengths and weaknesses of data they have for

measurement. This “top down” approach provides a strategic direction for utility managers to

determine their best approach to reducing losses. The group has also identified four important

actions that can be taken to reduce water losses, and subsequently this has been graphically shown

as a strategic plan to reduce the overall volume of lost water.

A key message to the industry that is an outcome from this work, is that percentages are a poor

method of measuring losses when used to measure progress, or as comparisons to other similar

utilities. An emphasis has been placed on having accurate data regarding flow measurement into

water distribution networks, and water pressure variance. These are key factors to be known in order

to identify where most leakage is, and to understand where leaks can be found and how leaks can

be stopped from.

More info at https://iwa-connect.org/group/water-loss/about

Romanian Water Association is at the heart of connecting the vast

community of water professionals, at national and international

levels, promoting the integration of cutting-edge ideas of

professionals in the research and innovation fields.

As an ARA member, water professionals benefit from the resulting "know-how" from the

collaboration of various professions and specialties at national and international level.

Thanks to its network of members, professionals in research, operation, regulation, consulting

and design, ARA can address unique expressions of global challenges within communities in

the country to create extensive knowledge and integrated and sustainable solutions. At the same

time, ARA promotes solidarity among its members, initiates, develops and support sector

development strategies and programs, and contributes to the promotion and improvement of

modern and unitary forms of institutional organization and management in the water sector. It

performs, in co-operation with the National Regulatory Authority for Community Utilities, the

Annual Report on the state of water supply and sewerage services.

Through the Excellence Center for Benchmarking, ARA performs benchmarking exercises

annually, aiming to promote best practices and to use it as a management tool.

More info at http://www.ara.ro/

https://iwa-connect.org/group/water-loss/about

http://www.ara.ro/

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DRAFT DETAILED AGENDA - Water Loss 20193 DRAFT DETAILED AGENDA Sunday - 22 September 2019 Preconference workshop Hotel International, 10:00 – 16:00 Monday – 23 September 2019 Palace