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Water and Sanitation, Drainage and Waste

Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG

Smart Water Meters 94.80 %

Water Supply ICT 100.00 %
Monitoring

Basic Water Supply 100.00 %

Potable Water Supply 99.10 %

Water Supply Loss 9.27 %

Wastewater
Collection 99.70 %

Household Sanitation 100.00 %

Drainage/Storm
Water System ICT 87.50 %
Monitoring

Solid Waste Collection 100.00 %

While Valencia's performance is largely positive in these categories, the rate of water loss through the
water distribution systems is high, albeit lower than in many cities/regions around the world that are
of comparable age to Valencia.

Saving water resources, strategically: It is recommended, therefore, that Valencia should develop and
enact legislation that mandates conservation of the city’s water resources by requiring public drinking
water utilities to submit a water conservation plan. Additionally, these utilities should be required to
develop ongoing programme(s) of leak detection, repair, and water loss accounting for the transmission,
delivery and distribution system, documentation of water pumpage, delivery, sales and loss volumes.

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