California · PWS CA2410004

Livingston

What Livingston filed with DWR about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2016–2024 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2024
18.1%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.

2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 AN1765

Where this figure comes from

(system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100

  • system input volume 2,484 sheet Sheet1, cell AN1765 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • billed authorized consumption 2,034 sheet Sheet1, cell AQ1765 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet

From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.

Recoverable annually
$30,100
Apparent loss is valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water. Real loss is NOT included — DWR publishes a variable production cost whose unit it does not declare, so no dollar figure is put on the leaked water. The real recoverable total is higher than this by an amount this filing does not let anyone state.

2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csvSheet1 DH1765

Where this figure comes from

cost of apparent losses + cost of real losses, both as computed in the filed audit

  • cost of apparent losses, as filed 30,073 sheet Sheet1, cell DH1765

From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.

Balance check
inapplicable
DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction.

What the record shows

18.1% non-revenue water in FY2024, higher than 81% of the 545 California systems that filed that year.

18.1% non-revenue water in FY2024, against 545 California filings for the same yearA strip of 545 filings on a 0 to 64% axis. The median is 9.2%. This system is 18.1%. 1 filing above 64% are drawn at the right edge.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%This system 18.1%California median 9.2%
The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 4.5 points a year, against a California median of 2.6, including 2% to 18% between FY2023 and FY2024. A distribution system's real losses do not change that fast — pipe does not deteriorate or repair itself in a single year. A series that moves like this is describing how the water is being measured and recorded, not how much of it is being lost, and which year is closer to true cannot be settled from this filing.

What it charges

No bill is published for this system. Our computation from this system's filed rate structure and the Board's own undocumented charge field for the same volume disagree, and the field carries no definition to settle which is right.

It did answer the Board's customer-charge questions for reporting year 2025; what is missing is what a comparable figure needs.

Source: California State Water Resources Control Board, electronic Annual Report 2025, section 8a, filed under Health and Safety Code section 116530. How every California bill on this site compares.

Compliance record

18 violations on EPA's record for this system as of 2026Q2, of which 14 are health-based. 16 resolved, and 2 still open.

Counted as distinct violations, not as rows: EPA's export carries one row per enforcement action taken against a violation, so a row count would multiply this system's record several times over. A violation here is a breach of a reporting, monitoring or contaminant-level rule as reported to EPA — it is not a measurement of the water, and this site has none.

Source: US EPA, Safe Drinking Water Information System, via the ECHO national download, 2026Q2. How we hold it.

A filed value that cannot be true.
  • FY2022 reports a leakage index of 0.0148762256940743, which would mean less real loss than the unavoidable minimum the same audit computes for this network.

Each is reproduced exactly as filed and excluded from every figure computed on this page. A number that contradicts its own audit is a finding about the filing, not a gap in ours.

Who filed this audit

Livingston City Of filed this audit for FY2024 and operates no other system in the export that year. California keys its export on the filing organization and not on the system, so the two coincide here rather than by definition.

Every figure on this page is read from DWR's published export as this site holds it: a 184-column extract of DWR's 190-column file. Six columns naming individuals, including the contact and the third-party validator, are removed before the bytes are committed, so the click path behind each figure lands on the extract and not on DWR's original. The column letters differ from DWR's for that reason.

Water balance, FY2024 · 2,484 MG system input
Billed 2,034 MG Unbilled authorized 5.08 MG Apparent loss 28.6 MG Real loss 416.5 MG

DWR derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so these parts sum to the whole on every filing. What a filing can get wrong is which of these numbers were measured.

Where these volumes come from
  • System input 2,484 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AN1765 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Billed authorized 2,034 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AQ1765 · billed metered plus billed unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Unbilled authorized 5.08 MG sheet Sheet1, cell AW1765 · unbilled metered plus unbilled unmetered, converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Apparent loss 28.6 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CC1765 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet
  • Real loss 416.5 MG sheet Sheet1, cell CE1765 · converted to million gallons from acre-feet

From data/archive/ca-dwr-water-loss/2026-09-05-f0dfea5a6026.csv (SHA-256 f0dfea5a6026881d), retrieved 2026-09-05 from the published source.

Filed history, 2016–2024
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable
2024 18.1% 2,484 $30,100
2023 1.9% 2,309 $39,900
2022 1.7% 2,409 $44,700
2021 4.8% 2,542 $66,500
2020 5.1% 2,779 $59,100
2019 6.3% 2,395 $40,800
2018 3.0% 2,224 $52,700
2017 9.5% 2,335 $17,500
2016 4.3% 2,191 $11,100

Comparable systems

The same size band — 3,300–10,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Bear Valley Community Services District3,300–10,000 connections 10.9% FY2016
North Tahoe PUD - Main3,300–10,000 connections 20.8% FY2024
Anderson3,300–10,000 connections 14.0% FY2024
Valley Water Company3,300–10,000 connections 5.9% FY2024
Newman3,300–10,000 connections 15.5% FY2024
Greenfield County Water District3,300–10,000 connections 15.1% FY2025
Tehachapi3,300–10,000 connections 15.4% FY2020
San Bernardino Csa 70j3,300–10,000 connections 13.4% FY2024

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $30,100 a year. It cannot say which accounts, which zones, or which meters. That takes your billing history, your meter reads, and your production data reconciled against each other.

Our Water Loss Recovery Snapshot is three weeks, one flat fee, and the deliverable is a ranked list of specific accounts and zones with dollars and a confidence on each.

See what the Snapshot delivers Email us about Livingston

Sources and corrections. Every figure above is either filed by the utility or computed from filed figures, and each one says which. If a number here is wrong, it is either wrong in the filing or wrong in our reading of it — tell us which and we will correct the page and say what changed.

Cite as

Municorn.us, “Livingston — water loss as filed”, Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/ca/livingston/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-05).

CC BY 4.0 — reuse and redistribution are permitted with attribution to Municorn.us and a link to this page. Terms, and the one caveat that must travel with these figures.

"Water loss" is at least three different quantities depending on the jurisdiction, and nothing here supports a comparison between states.