Texas · PWS TX1280001 · KARNES County

Karnes City

What Karnes City filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2016–2019 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2019
52.3%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$230,741
As computed in the filed audit itself: apparent loss valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water, real loss at its own reported variable production cost. Not our estimate.
Balance check
closed
The filed water balance closes.

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What the filing says

Karnes City serves 1,321 retail connections and about 3,500 people. Because it reports fewer than 3,300 connections, it is on a five-year water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

52.3% non-revenue water in FY2019, higher than 96% of the 900 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is not stable enough to act on. It has moved an average of 13.8 points a year, against a Texas median of 5.8, including 16% to 52% between FY2018 and FY2019. 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.
Water balance, FY2019 · 176.3 MG system input
Billed 84.1 MG Unbilled authorized 2.2 MG Apparent loss 3.24 MG Real loss 86.8 MG

Components sum to within 0.00% of reported system input, inside the 0.5% tolerance.

Filed history, 2016–2019
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2019 52.3% 176.3 $230,741 closed
2018 16.2% 149 $33,999 closed
2017 19.6% 138 $31,813 closed
2016 17.5% 144.7 $33,481 closed

How to read the recoverable figure

Apparent loss is water that reached a customer and was never billed — under-registering meters, data-handling errors, unauthorized use. It is valued at the retail rate, because recovering it is revenue, and it is recoverable inside a budget year without capital work. Real loss is valued at variable production cost only: eliminating a leak saves what it cost to treat and pump the water, not what it would have sold for. Adding those two at the same rate is how a loss study produces a number nobody in a finance department believes.

As computed in the filed audit itself: apparent loss valued at this utility's own reported retail price of water, real loss at its own reported variable production cost. Not our estimate.

Comparable systems

Same county, or the same size band — 1,000–3,300 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
KenedyKARNES County 7.7%
El Oso Water Supply CorpKARNES County 40.6%
Fort Bend County MUD 206 Victorian Garde1,000–3,300 connections 6.8%
Lindale Rural Water Supply Corp Dc1,000–3,300 connections 34.7%
East Bell Water Supply Corp1,000–3,300 connections 20.9%
Eula Water Supply Corp1,000–3,300 connections 3.1%
Taft1,000–3,300 connections 57.6%
Westlake MUD 11,000–3,300 connections 12.6%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $230,741 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.

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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.