Historical Data: Water Loss Audit and Conservation Annual Report Data
- What is the background on historical data collection?
- How to access historical Water Loss Audit data?
- How to access historical Water Conservation Annual Report data?
For additional information, please contact TWDB's Water Loss Audit team at WLA-Group@twdb.texas.gov or 512-463-0987.
What is the background on historical data collection?
In 2013, the 83rd Texas Legislature appropriated funds to the Texas Water Development Board to streamline the online data collection for the Board’s water planning and conservation programs. The bill called for the development of "an online tool to consolidate reporting requirements related to the Water Use Survey, annual Water Loss Report, and annual Water Conservation Report. The agency shall also develop an online tool to quantify water conservation savings. The agency shall provide the ability for these reports to be completed, submitted and viewable by the public online". This consolidation project was divided into 3 phases, with delivery dates scheduled over a 3-year period.
- Phase 1 was the development of a single point of entry through which entities were able to access their Water Use Survey and Water Loss Audit reports and common data will be passed from one report to another. This was deployed in January 2015 for reporting year 2014.
- Phase 2 was the creation of a new Water Conservation application and database which receives common data from both the Water Use Survey and Water Loss Audit, as well as other data, that will assist in the completion of an entity’s Utility Profile and Conservation Annual Report. This will be achieved by continuing the population of common data into these reports from the Water Use Survey and Water Loss Audit as well as using historical data that will now be stored in the new database. This was deployed in January 2017 for reporting year 2016.
- Phase 3 was the development of a tool through which reports related to any of the above applications will be accessible to the public online and those reports may be accessed below.
How to access historical Water Loss Audit data?
The repository of historical data collected from these reports can be found here. Use this as a reference and guide to help set goals for the future!
How to access historical Water Conservation Annual Report data?
Reports have been added to Texas Water Development Board Secure Agency Reporting Application to view Water Conservation Reports or selecting link. Use the global filter option located at the top of the reporting application and filter the reports by the text 'Water Conservation' to see all reports associated with the Annual Conservation Reports.