The water loss playbook: find, price and verify water loss in buildings
The water loss playbook is a free Milvian AI guide for facility teams who want to find water loss before the bill does. It explains real and apparent losses, how to plan sub-metering, how to close a live water balance, how to run night flow tests, how to price loss from your own bills and how Aqueduct verifies every fix at the meter.
The Water Loss Playbook
- Why water loss hides in plain sight
- Know what you are looking for: real and apparent losses
- Step 1: Survey the meters you already have
- Step 2: Plan sub-metering where it pays
- Step 3: Close the water balance
- Step 4: Set expectations with baselines and night flow
- Step 5: Price, prioritize and route the fix
- Step 6: Verify, reset and make it routine
For: Facility managers, plant engineers, sustainability leads and multi-site operators who pay for water and want to know where it goes.
PDF guideThe Water Loss PlaybookCommon questions
A water loss playbook is a step-by-step method for finding, pricing and stopping water loss in a building or campus. The Milvian AI playbook runs from meter survey to a live water balance, night flow tests, pricing, routing and verification at the meter.
Close a water balance. Compare what enters at the main meter with what is measured at each use, and treat the unaccounted difference as the leak signal. Night flow on each sub-meter then narrows it to a floor or line.
You need a metered main supply and enough sub-metering to localize loss. Existing meters connect to Aqueduct where they emit telemetry, including through pulse counters or camera meters. Where more are needed, installation runs through partners.
It compares actual use with a baseline built by regression on history plus cooling and heating degree days, so a hot week or a busy event does not look like a leak.
Every site is different. Aqueduct verifies each water saving at the meter against a weather-normalized baseline. The playbook shows how to measure your own result against a baseline rather than relying on anyone else's figure.
Only where a controllable valve is connected and control is enabled, with owner approval. Every command is logged in the command history.
Yes. It downloads as a PDF after a short form.
See Aqueduct on your own facility.
Bring a site, a utility bill or a question. We will show you where the loss is.