# Livingston — water loss as filed

TWDB · PWS TX1870002 · POLK County · filings 2015–2024
https://municorn.us/water-loss/tx/livingston/

## Summary

Livingston reported **30.0% non-revenue water** in FY2024, higher than 75% of the 908 Texas systems that filed that year. At the utility's own reported water rates that is **$831,959 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 | 30.0% | 804.4 | $831,959 | closed |
| 2023 | 28.2% | 857.4 | $841,560 | closed |
| 2022 | 22.4% | 783.2 | $599,887 | closed |
| 2021 | 31.9% | 829.2 | $918,771 | closed |
| 2020 | 35.5% | 829.3 | $983,183 | closed |
| 2019 | 34.0% | 857.9 | $998,251 | closed |
| 2018 | 29.4% | 804.3 | $781,335 | closed |
| 2017 | 30.3% | 783.7 | $803,842 | closed |
| 2016 | 25.8% | 765.2 | $613,016 | closed |
| 2015 | 21.5% | 678.1 | $512,043 | 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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