Water Loss: Why Failure Prediction Alone Is Not Enough

The reason we designed Baseform as one end-to-end software is that the complete picture is the only way to make rational decisions.

Leading industry bodies such as AWWA and IWA have long established best practices for effective water loss management:

(i) Proactively monitor and quantify water losses across the system;

(ii) Prioritize sectors and mains based on factual real losses, underregistration, service levels, and asset condition; and

(iii) Implement control measures through leak detection, pressure management, mains renewal, customer meter changeout, and other strategies.

Relying solely on failure prediction overlooks essential capabilities in water loss quantification and prioritization. These capabilities are integral to a best-practice water loss management platform like Baseform, which covers all bases with expert analytics.

Predictive insights into mains breaks, such as made by Baseform's AI-driven Predict, are crucially enhanced when combined with water loss metrics and prioritization derived from Baseform's Monitor (event detection and continuous component analysis) and Billing (apparent losses, underregistration). These enhancements help focus renewal planning on actual returns and on addressing operational and service challenges caused by mains deterioration. The reason we designed Baseform as one end-to-end software is that the complete picture is the only way to make rational decisions.

Baseform is THE vDMA management software.

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