# Kountze — water loss as filed

TWDB · PWS TX1000001 · HARDIN County · filings 2015–2024
https://municorn.us/water-loss/tx/kountze/

## Summary

Kountze reported **30.6% non-revenue water** in FY2024, higher than 76% of the 908 Texas systems that filed that year. At the utility's own reported water rates that is **$13,090 a year**, as computed in the filed audit itself. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30.6% | 93.3 | $13,090 | closed |
| 2023 | 23.6% | 86.7 | $10,898 | closed |
| 2022 | 13.8% | 78.8 | $8,526 | closed |
| 2021 | 21.4% | 81.7 | $10,522 | closed |
| 2020 | 17.0% | 75.2 | $8,033 | closed |
| 2019 | 20.7% | 78.3 | $7,572 | closed |
| 2018 | 16.8% | 83.6 | $6,494 | closed |
| 2017 | 17.8% | 83.2 | $7,646 | closed |
| 2016 | 19.5% | 85.4 | $6,919 | closed |
| 2015 | 12.2% | 82.1 | $7,435 | 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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