Presentations

Presentations

Monday – 23 September 2019, 09:30 – 10:45

*Time*	*Presentation title*	*Presenter*
09:30	Welcome remarks	Felix Stroe, ARA President
09:45	Welcome and keynote speech	Stuart Hamilton, Chair of the IWA Water Loss Specialist Group
10:15	Welcome and advance solution presentation	Bogdan Ardeleanu, General Director Seba KMT - Gold Sponsor

Monday - 23 September 2019, 10:45 – 13:00

Session I - Regional activities in the context of NRW

Moderator: Bambos Charalambous

*Time*	*Presentation title*	*Presenter, Country*
10:45	NRW activities in Romania	Silviu Lacatusu, Romania
11:00	NRW activities in IAWD	Philip Weller, Danube Region
11:15	NRW activities in Bulgaria	Ivan Ivanov, Bulgaria
11:30	NRW activities in Hungary	Géza Csőrnyei, Hungary
11:45	NRW activities in Serbia	Marina Nikolić, Serbia

Session II - Regional activities in the context of NRW (cont.)

Time

Presentation title

Presenter, Country

12:30

Experiences in Real Loss Assessment 10-years after implementing the ILI as decisive Key-PI in Austria

Joerg Koelbl,

Austria

12:45

Non-revenue water reduction challenges in Albania

Enkelejda Gjinali,

Albania

Monday - 23 September 2019, 14:30 – 16:00

Session III – Network Zoning and DMA Design

Moderator: Atanas Paskalev

*Time*	*Presentation title*	*Presenter, Country*
14:30	DMA zoning at Regional Water Company Prishtina - Prishtina Distribution Network	Ilir Abdullahu, Kosovo
14:45	Establishing DMAs and Managing Pressures in Overpressured Systems. Case Study in the City of Onesti	Alexandru Aldea, Romania
15:00	Partially corrugated water tube to reduce leaking from service lines	Benoît Van Hecke, Belgium
15:15	Comprehensive model analysis for high water distribution networks performance	David Duccini, France
15:30	Tradition of ignoring continuous non-revenue water management in water utilities in south-east Europe	Dijana Draganovic Bosnia and Herzegovina
15:45	Water Loss Management in Calarasi Water Utility	Petronel Birjaru, Romania

Monday - 23 September 2019, 16:30 – 17:30

Session IV – Customer Metering

Moderator: Enkelejda Gjinali

*Time*	*Presentation title*	*Presenter, Country*
16:30	Apparent losses control – Customer meters renewal policy optimization	Barbara Barbosa, Portugal
16:45	Smart Meter Park Operation: Lessons Learned	Adrian Rubio, Spain
17.00	Asheville NRW Program Takes Commercial Meter Testing to the Next Level for Real Payback	Steve Cavanaugh, USA
17:15	AQUAWAN - Intelligent System for Remote Reading Smart Water Meters, Using the LoRaWAN Communication Protocol	Alin Anchidin, Romania

Tuesday – 24 September 2019, 09:00 – 10:45

Session V – NRW Assessment and Strategy Design

Moderator: Roland Liemberger

*Time*	*Presentation title*	*Presenter, Country*
09:00	Practical Aspects for Water Loss PI's Targets in Water Distribution Systems	Alexandru Aldea, Romania
09:15	The State to State Domino Effect - World’s Largest Level 1 Validated Water Audit Data Set compels US utilities, regulatory and EPA financing programs to mandate IWA/AWWA Water Loss Best Practices	Steve Cavanaugh, USA
09:30	Water loss reduction using digital solutions For work force management	Valentin Zaharia, Romania
09:45	Sustained leakage reduction at an ILI of 0.6 – Lessons learned from the ongoing water loss control program of Waterbedrijf Groningen	Cor Merks, Netherlands
10:00	Identifying water loss zones by means of flow metering	Sorin Murariu, Romania

Tuesday - 24 September 2019, 11:15 – 12:45

Session VI – Leak Detection

Modetator: Stuart Hamilton

*Time*	*Presentation title*	*Presenter, Country*
11:00	The new technologys in water losses detection	Ivan Ilie, Romania
11:15	Satellite based Leak detection – Case studies in Mitrovica (Kosovo) and Skopje (North Macedonia)	Bojan Ristovski, North Macedonia
11:30	Case studies on using unmanned aerial vehicle	Alexandru Postavaru, Romania
11:45	Technology and application of leak detection methods for large and small diameter pipes	Pedro Pina, Portugal
12:00	Post Meter Water Leakage Detection Using Smart Metering	Habib Muhammetoglu, Turkey
12:15	The leak detection project of the Walloon Water Company	Denis Devos, Belgium

Tuesday - 24 September 2019, 14:00 – 15:45

Session VII – Institutional Issues

Moderator: Ioan Bica

*Time*	*Presentation title*	*Presenter, Country*
14:00	Addressing Future Human Resources Challenges in the Region of Southeast Europe in NRW Context	Jurica Kovac, Croatia
14:15	How to Design a Performance Based Non-Revenue Water Management Contract	Roland Liemberger , Austria
14:30	Consultancy in the conceptual management of a water supply system with the lowest production price	Cosmin Tobolcea, Romania
14:45	Digital Water System: The Case of Gandia	Manuel Roldan, Spain
15:00	Catawba-Wateree: North Americas first River Basin Water Loss Regional Strategy	Steve Cavanaugh, USA
15:15	Commercial Losses - The low hanging fruit	Bambos Charalambous, Cyprus
15:30	Implementation Strategy for the "Regional Project for the Development of the Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in Iasi County, during period 2014-2020", in order to limit the NRW amount in the operation of drinking water supply systems	Apetroi Ioan-Vladut, Romania

Tuesday - 24 September 2019, 16:15 – 18:00

Session VIII – Non Revenue Water Management

Moderator: Bambos Charalambous

*Time*	*Presentation title*	*Presenter, Country*
16:15	Budapest Waterworks experience in Management of Water Losses	Evelin Madzin / László Varga, Hungary
16:30	Considerations on water losses from storage tanks	Stefania Chirica, Romania
16:45	Water Loss Reduction in Braila Water Utility	Stere Jiru, Romania
17:00	Using a hydraulic model for reducing the non-revenue water in case of a village	Alin Anchidin, Romania
17:15	Adaptive algorithm for water loss estimation in networks based on advanced analysis of Minimum Night Flow (MNF)	Vicente David, Spain
17:30	Decreasing of non-revenue water volume in the Chirita Water Plant of Apavital Iasi	Dan Popovici, Romania

Water Loss 2019 Team:

Scientific Committee

Chair: Bambos Charalambous (Cyprus)

Ioan Bica (Romania)

Sergiu Calos (Rep. of Moldova)

Enkelejda Gjinali (Albania)

Stuart Hamilton (UK)

Roland Liemberger (Austria)

Atanas Paskalev (Bulgaria)

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Organising Committee

Chair: Felix Stroe

Constantin Predoi

Silviu Lacatusu

Alina Rapcencu

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