A Parameter Classification System for Nonrevenue Water Management in Water Distribution Networks

<div class="floats-full-page floats-full-page-other"><h2>Table 6</h2><div class="floats-full-page-caption"><div>Final selected parameters for NRW management [<a href="../../3841979/#B4" target="_blank">4</a>, <a href="../../3841979/#B8" target="_blank">8</a>, <a href="../../3841979/#B36" target="_blank">36</a>–<a href="../../3841979/#B38" target="_blank">38</a>].</div></div><div class="floats-full-page-content"><table class="table-group" id="tab6"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr /></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Classification</td><td class="align_center">Parameters</td><td class="align_center">Application area</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" rowspan="5">Physical</td><td class="align_center">(i) Pipe material</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="8">Administrative area, DMA</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(ii) Mean pipe diameter</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(iii) Pipe length per number of demand junctions</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(iv) Amount of water supply per number of demand junction</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(v) Deteriorated pipe ratio</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" rowspan="3">Operational</td><td class="align_center">(vi) Number of leaks</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(vii) Leak recovery ratio</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(viii) Demand energy ratio</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="3"><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class="align_center" rowspan="5">Socioeconomic</td><td class="align_center">(ix) Water price cost recovery rates</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="5">Administrative area</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(x) Investment ratio of maintenance cost to expenditures</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(xi) Investment ratio of facility improvement cost to expenditures</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(xii) Population of water supply per number of demand junctions</td></tr><tr><td class="align_center">(xiii) Fiscal self-reliance ratio</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr" /></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></div>

Table 6 | A Parameter Classification System for Nonrevenue Water Management in Water Distribution Networks

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