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https://thesourcemagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Lake-Mead-Welcomia-Dreamstime.com_.jpg800534Some degree of leakage is inevitable but most non-revenue water discussions focus only on immediate physical losses within a utility’s distribution and billing. What about all the opportunity costs associated with losses caused by the system? By David Zetland In addition to balancing supply and demand for water, private and public utility managers have to […]