What Happens to Water Between the Plant and Your Tap

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 12, 2026 · 33m

Every litre that leaks is a litre somebody already paid to treat, pump, and chlorinate. This episode digs into the buried network between the treatment plant and the paying customer: the IWA water balance, why "30% lost" is at least three different problems, how district metered areas and minimum night flow let crews hear a leak through a metre of dirt, and why the Infrastructure Leakage Index writes poverty into its own benchmarks. Plus the cities that beat the odds — Tokyo, Phnom Penh, Singapore — and what it took to get there. Key sources: • Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, Non-Revenue…