THE NEW AWWA FREE WATER AUDIT SOFTWARE IS HERE...AWWA Free Water Audit Software: American Water Works Association.Dashboard 1/2013 - 12/2013 Northern San Leandro Combined Water Sewer

TAKING THE V6 FOR A SPINTHE NEW AWWA FREE WATER AUDIT

SOFTWARE IS HERE

Will Jernigan, P.E.Chair / AWWA Water Loss Software CommitteeChair / North American Water Loss ConferenceCFO, Director of Water Efficiency / Cavanaugh

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn the key upgrades from FWAS v5 to v6• Learn how the new Interactive Data Grading works • Test drive the new v6

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ATTENDEE POLL –

GAUGING YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THE AWWA FREE WATER AUDIT SOFTWARE

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AWWA M36 Methodology – State of the Art Water Auditing & Loss Control

AWWA WLCC Software

Development Group

FWAS v6 Alpha

Test Group

• Volunteer effort• Large stakeholder team• Utilities, consultants, regulators • Multiple feedback loops• Over 1,000 comments received to date related to v6 development

FWAS v6 Beta & Gamma

Test Groups

Pre-Release Test Group

FWAS v5 Feedback

2015-2018 2019 2020 2020

AWWA WLCC Software

Development Group

FWAS v6 Alpha

Test Group

• Volunteer effort• Large stakeholder team• Utilities, consultants, regulators • Multiple feedback loops• Over 1,000 comments received to date related to v6 development

FWAS v6 Beta & Gamma

Test Groups

Pre-Release Test Group

FWAS v5 Feedback

FWAS v6 Release

2015-2018 2019 2020 2020

v6.0 – What’s New?

• Accommodate a very wide range of water system setups, including small to large, retail vwholesale, own supply v purchased supply, metered v unmetered, and many more parametersthat can widely vary across the over 50,000 water systems in North America;

• Accommodate a very wide range of user knowledge, from first-time FWAS users to highlyexperienced water loss management practitioners;

• Achieve sufficient technical detail and rigor for tool effectiveness;• Achieve sufficient simplicity for tool efficiency;• Minimize cognitive load on the user interface for tool intuitiveness;

• Maximize awareness of user for best-practices through data grading questions;• Remove any Data Grading criteria subjectivity or ambiguity that existed in FWAS v5.0;• Update Data Grading criteria questions where needed to reflect best-practice or

technological advancements;• Minimize inevitable variance that will be observed in total Data Validity Score for any given

audit, with same or similar input parameters, between FWAS v5.0 and FWAS v6.0;

v6.0 Design Objectives


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Data Validity Grading v6Test Utility acronym key

2019 Limitingcriteria(see StartPage for details)

AWWA Free Water Audit Software: Interactive Data Grading

CMI 3SDHE 3 UC

10 BMAC UMACBUACWEEA1 WEWIEA 6VOS VOSEA WI

AOPLm1 Nc10 Lp CRUC VPCUse acronyms for navigationOrange = complete

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3 UUACWhite = incomplete

Test Utility acronym key



CMI 3SDHE 3 UC





Data Validity Grading v6




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Use acronym buttons in IDG header to navigate among inputs. Acronym Key above.White = needs answers, orange = complete, clear = not required.

After clicking an acronym button, answer all visible questions in the order they're presented, choosing best-fit answer

7Grade will populate when all visible questions are complete for an input

The limiting criteria will be labeled along the right. If only 1 limiting criterion is shown, improving on that criterion will achieve a higher data grade. If multiple

limiting criteria are shown, improving on each limiting criteria is necessary to achieve a higher data grade. A complete inventory of data grading criteria is

available in the Data Grading Matrix v6.0 (see web resources)

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Test Utility acronym key



n/a CMI 3SDHE 3 UC

10 BMAC UMACBUACWEEA1 WE n/aWIEA 6VOS 9VOSEA n/aWI

3 AOP1 Lm1 Nc10 Lp1 CRUC3 VPC

Use acronyms for navigationOrange = complete


3 UUAC

White = incomplete

When acronym buttons in IDG header are no longer WHITE, you are complete with the IDG questions

(if any are clear, they are not required)

v6Blank Sheet

Alexa, find my blank sheet

Dash-board

Water Audit Report for:Reporting Year: 2013 Show me the VOLUME of Non-Revenue Water

Data Validity Score: 60 Show me the COST of Non-Revenue Water

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1/2013 - 12/2013Northern San Leandro Combined Water Sewer Storm Utility District (0007900)

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Total Cost of NRW =$116,513

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Unbilled unmetered (valued at Var. Prod. Cost)

Unauth. consumption

Cust. metering inaccuracies

Syst. data handling errors

Real Losses (valued at Var. Prod. Cost)

WAS v5.0American Water Works Association.

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Water Exported

Authorized Consumption

Water Losses

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Volume From OwnSources

Water Exported

Billed Auth. Cons.

Unbilled Auth. Cons.

Apparent Losses

Real Losses

Water Exported

Revenue Water

Non Revenue Water

The graphic below is a visual representation of the Water Balance with bar heights propotional to the

volume of the audit components

Water Exported

Water Supplied

Water Audit Report for:Reporting Year: 2013 Show me the VOLUME of Non-Revenue Water

Data Validity Score: 60 Show me the COST of Non-Revenue Water

AWWA Free Water Audit Software: Dashboard

1/2013 - 12/2013Northern San Leandro Combined Water Sewer Storm Utility District (0007900)

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Unbilled metered (valued at Var. Prod. Cost)

Unbilled unmetered (valued at Var. Prod. Cost)

Unauth. consumption

Cust. metering inaccuracies

Syst. data handling errors

Real Losses (valued at Var. Prod. Cost)

WAS v5.0American Water Works Association.

Copyright © 2014, All Rights Reserved.

Water Exported

Authorized Consumption

Water Losses

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Water Exported

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Volume From OwnSources

Water Exported

Billed Auth. Cons.

Unbilled Auth. Cons.

Apparent Losses

Real Losses

Water Exported

Revenue Water

Non Revenue Water

The graphic below is a visual representation of the Water Balance with bar heights propotional to the

volume of the audit components

Water Exported

Water Supplied

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Source: AWWA Free Water Audit Software v6


•Interactive Data Grading to improve consistency, objectivity,

transparency in data grade assignment for each input

•Blank sheet for user calculations / extras

•Fighterjet Dashboard

•KPIs updated per AWWA 2020 Position

•KPIs shown on gauge against industry ranges

SUMMARY OF MAJOR V6 IMPROVEMENTS

Software Development Group• Will Jernigan (Chair)• David Sayers• Kate Gasner• Andrew Chastain-Howley• George Kunkel

Alpha Test Group• Drew Blackwell• Heather Himmelberger• Yannis Kachani• Chris Leauber• Sofia Marcus• Brian Skeens• Dan Strub• Ken Brothers

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE

AWWA FWAS v6.0

TAKING THE V6 FOR A SPINTHE NEW AWWA FREE WATER AUDIT

SOFTWARE IS HERE

Will Jernigan, P.E.Chair / AWWA Water Loss Software CommitteeChair / North American Water Loss ConferenceCFO, Director of Water Efficiency / Cavanaugh

[email protected]

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