# Poetry Water Supply Corp — water loss as filed

TWDB · PWS TX1290022 · KAUFMAN County · filings 2015–2022
https://municorn.us/water-loss/tx/poetry-water-supply-corp/

## Summary

Poetry Water Supply Corp reported **18.7% non-revenue water** in FY2022, higher than 56% of the 740 Texas systems that filed that year. At the utility's own reported water rates that is **$137,586 a year**, as computed in the filed audit itself.

**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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.7% | 104.3 | $137,586 | closed |
| 2021 | 13.5% | 88.4 | $77,762 | closed |
| 2020 | 12.9% | 95.1 | $65,515 | closed |
| 2019 | 14.7% | 86.9 | $63,788 | closed |
| 2018 | 18.0% | 87.3 | $79,919 | closed |
| 2017 | 8.8% | 77 | $37,298 | closed |
| 2016 | 15.7% | 77.9 | $69,994 | closed |
| 2015 | 16.2% | 83.5 | $100,301 | 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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