The Water Research Foundation, a leading sponsor of research supporting the water community, is helping water utilities better understand and control leakage in a cost-effective manner through recently completed research and the development of a new leakage analysis tool. Water Audits and Real Loss Component Analysis project (#4372) provides water utilities information to better understand the sources of their losses from leakage throughout the water distribution system and a tool to help analyze the economic impact of various intervention strategies.Most water utilities in North America use reactive leakage management strategies, through which failures are repaired when they are reported to the utility. Because of this, utilities are
