# Karnes City — water loss as filed

TWDB · PWS TX1280001 · KARNES County · filings 2016–2019
https://municorn.us/water-loss/tx/karnes-city/

## Summary

Karnes City reported **52.3% non-revenue water** in FY2019, higher than 96% of the 900 Texas systems that filed that year. At the utility's own reported water rates that is **$230,741 a year**, as computed in the filed audit itself. **The series is not stable enough to act on**: it moves 13.8 points a year against a Texas median of 5.8. The figure is trending worse across the record.

**The filed balance closes**, to within 0.00% of reported system input.

## Filed history

| Year | Non-revenue water % | System input (MG) | Cost of losses/yr | 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 |

`closed` means the filed components sum to the filed input. `failed` means they do not, by the stated residual.
`insufficient` means the check could not run because figures are missing — never to be read as a pass.

## How the cost figure is built

Apparent loss is water delivered and never billed, so it is valued at the retail rate: revenue, recoverable inside a
budget year without capital work. Real loss is valued at variable production cost, because eliminating a leak saves
treatment and pumping rather than retail price. Where the filed audit carries its own cost of losses — as TWDB's
export does — those figures are used directly and no rate of ours enters the calculation.

## Source

Texas Water Development Board — historical water loss audit data. Retrieved 2026-08-09. https://www.twdb.texas.gov/conservation/data/water-loss-dashboard.asp

Volumes are normalized to million gallons on ingest; the export reports them in the unit each filing states.

Figures are as filed unless stated otherwise. If a number here is wrong it is wrong in the filing or wrong in
our reading of it, and both are worth knowing: ammar@municorn.us

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