Texas · PWS TX2400001 · WEBB County

Laredo

What Laredo filed with TWDB about the water it produced and the water it billed for, 2015–2023 — and what the filing does and does not let anyone verify.

Non-revenue water, FY2023
13.5%
Computed from filed system input and billed consumption.
Recoverable annually
$2.33M
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

Laredo serves 89,243 retail connections and about 255,205 people. Because it reports more than 3,300 connections, it is on an annual water loss audit cycle with TWDB.

What the record shows

13.5% non-revenue water in FY2023, higher than 41% of the 785 Texas systems that filed that year.

The reported figure is stable, moving 1.41 points a year against a Texas median of 5.81, so the level is more likely to reflect the system than the paperwork.

Water balance, FY2023 · 13,031 MG system input
Billed 11,275 MG Unbilled authorized 122.5 MG Apparent loss 525.8 MG Real loss 1,108 MG

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

Filed history, 2015–2023
Year NRW Input (MG) Recoverable Balance
2023 13.5% 13,031 $2.33M closed
2022 14.1% 13,487 $6.59M closed
2021 14.6% 13,069 $7.79M closed
2020 14.9% 12,984 $7.93M closed
2019 10.9% 12,560 $4.8M closed
2018 13.0% 12,448 $5.85M closed
2017 12.2% 12,847 $5.96M closed
2016 14.4% 12,628 $1.02M closed
2015 15.2% 12,100 $4.8M 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 — over 50,000 connections.

SystemBasis for comparisonNRW
Webb County WaterWEBB County 17.5%
Mirando City Water Supply CorpWEBB County 5.8%
Grand Prairieover 50,000 connections 25.0%
Planoover 50,000 connections 18.7%
Georgetownover 50,000 connections 11.3%
McKinneyover 50,000 connections 14.5%
Amarillo Municipalover 50,000 connections 12.4%
Lubbock Publicover 50,000 connections 7.6%

Where is it going?

This page says how much — roughly $2.33M 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.