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             37 zones in Santiago City (Figure 1). A structured  a total water loss of 3,716.43 m per day. These
             questionnaire was used in the conduct of key informant  unaccounted water losses could potentially supply an
             interviews. In addition, a field interview with the  additional 4,075 households when optimally used and/or
             household and service provider was also administered,  regulated.
             including field visits.                      The official water service is only 20 hours/ per day for
                                                        the 23 barangays and 14,801 households. There are 4
                                                        hours of downtime allotted for water treatment: 2 hours in
             3. Results and Discussion                  the morning and night.
                                                         From the total monthly pumped water, there were non-
             Water Management Sustainability of Santiago City,  revenue water (losses) of 28%, higher than the 20%
             Philippines                                allowed losses set by the Local Water Utility (LWA) and
                                                        National Water Resource Board (NWRB) (Website).
             Water Production                           Identified possible causes of loss are due factors such as a)
               The Santiago Water District has a combined water  physical factors, such as broken pipes, illegal tapping,
             production capacity per month of 404,967 m with an  under registry/ Illegal connection, and unauthorized
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             average daily production of 13,499 m . However, there  connectivity (unmetered/ unbilled); and b) commercial
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             were only 293,474 m metered and accounted/billed, while  losses such as water meter inaccuracies and data handling
             the remaining 111,493 m is unaccounted for, resulting in  errors.
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                                          Figure 1.  Map of Santiago City, Philippines
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