# Athens Municipal Water — water loss as filed PSC · PWS 260 · filings 2016–2025 https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/athens-municipal-water/ > **Cite as:** Municorn.us, "Athens Municipal Water — water loss as filed", Municorn water loss index, https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/athens-municipal-water/ (source filings retrieved 2026-09-08). > **Licence:** CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ — reuse and redistribution are permitted with attribution to Municorn.us and a link to this URL. > **Caveat that must travel with these figures:** "Water loss" is at least three different quantities depending on the jurisdiction, and nothing here supports a comparison between states. ## Summary Athens Municipal Water reported **16.3% non-revenue water** in FY2025, higher than 49% of the 562 Wisconsin systems that filed that year. **The components PSC publishes contradict each other.** They sum to 36.9 MG against the system input published for the same filing, 20.1 MG. Every total in this export is computed from the others, so this is a defect in the published data rather than in what the utility filed. **A filed value that cannot be true.** Each is reproduced exactly as filed and excluded from every figure computed here. A number that contradicts its own audit is a finding about the filing, not a gap in ours. - The components PSC publishes for FY2025 do not sum to the system input it publishes for the same filing — a defect in the published export, not in what the utility filed. ## Filed history | Year | Non-revenue water % | System input (MG) | |---|---|---| | 2025 | 16.3% | 20.1 | | 2024 | 15.1% | 20.4 | | 2023 | 15.2% | 21.6 | | 2022 | 16.0% | 20.4 | | 2021 | 10.7% | 19.3 | | 2020 | 20.5% | 21 | | 2019 | 26.7% | 23.2 | | 2018 | 20.6% | 22.1 | | 2017 | 23.3% | 22.6 | | 2016 | 25.4% | 22.3 | Balance closure is `inapplicable` on every filed year above, so the column that repeated it is not shown — but it is not the same reason every year. FY2016–FY2024: PSC derives water losses from system input minus authorized consumption, so this decomposition holds by construction. FY2025: The components PSC publishes contradict each other, which is a defect in the export rather than in the filing. ## What this source cannot say No filed year on this page carries a retail rate or a production cost, so no figure here is valued. A loss volume is not a loss in dollars, and this site will not supply a price that was not filed. ## Source Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, municipal annual report Schedule W-15. Retrieved 2026-09-08. https://apps.psc.wi.gov/ARS/WEGSqueries/default.aspx The FY2025 loss figure: (system input − billed authorized) ÷ system input × 100, from system input volume at `Sheet1!H25`; billed authorized consumption at `Sheet1!I25` — in `data/archive/wi-psc-water-audit/2026-09-08-5ef7d6e2fdbd.csv` (sha256 5ef7d6e2fdbdac2b, retrieved 2026-09-08, https://apps.psc.wi.gov/ARS/WEGSqueries/default.aspx), read by `src/scrape/wi.ts` at 6d6d5f59e8fb. 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 _Municorn.us · https://municorn.us/water-loss/wi/athens-municipal-water/ · CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ · source filings retrieved 2026-09-08_ --- ## Debt outstanding, and what covers the interest **No bonds outstanding at the end of 2025.** This is principal outstanding on the water utility's own balance sheet, on the Commission's own test: it files no electric operating report. | Year | Debt outstanding | Issues | Net revenue | Interest | Coverage | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | 2025 | $0 | 0 | $114,984 | $0 | — | | 2024 | $0 | 0 | $98,277 | $0 | — | | 2023 | $0 | 1 | $76,013 | $0 | — | | 2022 | $16,000 | 2 | $65,625 | $0 | — | | 2021 | $117,800 | 2 | $100,760 | $4,365 | 23.08 | | 2020 | $177,200 | 2 | $90,342 | $6,326 | 14.28 | | 2019 | $236,600 | 2 | $85,698 | $8,288 | 10.34 | | 2018 | $296,000 | 2 | $103,093 | $10,255 | 10.05 | | 2017 | $355,400 | 2 | $85,778 | $12,222 | 7.02 | | 2016 | $414,800 | 2 | $89,920 | $14,173 | 6.34 | This utility filed no interest expense for the year, so there is nothing for a coverage ratio to cover. Figures are as filed with the Commission under Wis. Admin. Code ch. PSC 185 and are not audited as presented. Nothing here is a credit opinion, an implied rating, or a judgement that any figure is sufficient. Source: Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, annual report financial schedules, 2016–2025.