# Taft — water loss as filed

TWDB · PWS TX2050007 · SAN PATRICIO County · filings 2015–2023
https://municorn.us/water-loss/tx/taft/

## Summary

Taft reported **57.6% non-revenue water** in FY2023, higher than 98% of the 785 Texas systems that filed that year. At the utility's own reported water rates that is **$207,247 a year**, as computed in the filed audit itself. **The series is not stable enough to act on**: it moves 16.8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 57.6% | 238.8 | $207,247 | closed |
| 2021 | 5.5% | 121.7 | $62,502 | closed |
| 2020 | 36.8% | 166.3 | $89,946 | closed |
| 2019 | 29.5% | 166.8 | $38,406 | closed |
| 2018 | 29.1% | 154.4 | $84,615 | closed |
| 2017 | 16.6% | 148.4 | $34,247 | closed |
| 2016 | 18.2% | 152.8 | $237,179 | closed |
| 2015 | 5.7% | 140.6 | $9,409 | 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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