Saving water by NOT replacing pipes #post1
So here I am . My double ice-skates have been tied tightly under my winter boots, standing behind the chair that was put in front of me on the ice of the small pond nearby . Encouraged by beloved ones who sincerely hoped I could make the first few meters without any support. Going forward slowly without falling. The exact same feeling I had 40 years ago when entering the ice-skating domain, I feel now entering the blog space. Just checked out Piers’ notes edition 186, which makes me very humble. But Piers must have started with edition 1 one day himself, so let’s kick ass here! This week I heard about the remarkable results of Dutch drinking water utility Oasen in reducing leakages of their infrastructure network. Not the bare fact that they reduced their non-revenue water from 6,5% to the incredible low 4%, but the way they managed to do so. The first thing the asset engineers did was proposing to the management team that no more than 50% of the pipe replacements would be undertak