Water conservation and access has been a high priority globally. Organizations like the U.N. and private industry have both been trying ways for people throughout the world access clean, drinkable water and do so affordably. While it’s important to focus on water delivery, something often gets ignored: water loss.

Water loss refers to water that is produced in a network, but never reaches the consumer. Forty-six billion liters of usable water is lost every day due to poorly managed networks, metering inaccuracies, water theft, or unmetered consumption. This isn’t just a developing world issue, as cities like Montreal loses 40% of the water it produces. While it is impossible to prevent all water loss, it will do us well to take some time to make improvements so that the water we collect can also be safely retained. For a full article about water loss, click here:: Water loss: sevent things you need to know about an invisible global problem