Historical reduction, lower value ever: 36%. Schools, swimming pools and fires enter the accounts, as well as “old” infrastructure and counters.
Vila Nova de Famalicão registered the lower number of always invoiced waterlast year.
36% uninvited water, after a historical reduction of 11%according to the statement sent by the Famalicão City Council to ZAP.
The numbers were presented last week during a meeting of the municipal executive.
The mayor, Mário Passos, stressed the efforts that the municipality has made in combating the waste of water in the public network.
As measures Most important in this combat have been: replacing conduct, repairing network conception defects, reducing network pressure, creating monitoring and control zones, replacing more than 20,000 aging accountants, and overseeing illicit consumption and clandestine bonds to sanitation.
But the mayor wants more: “These are numbers that make us confident in the work we are doing, but still don’t satisfy ourselves” – the idea is to lower from 36% to 29% this year; Then 19% in 2026 and the goal is to reach 14% in 2027.
And, after all, What is unqualified water?
It is all the water that, Once captured, treated, transported, stored and distributed, it is not invoiced.
Unwilling water passes through Unconnected authorized consumptions: schools, sports complexes, municipal pools, firefightingbetween others.
But it also goes through Real water lossesrelated mainly to the Network Aging water distribution infrastructures, and commercial losses that come, for example, the existence of a park of aged counters.
