From April 14 to 17, 2024, the IWA Water Loss 2024 Conference will be held in Donostia-San Sebastián, which is one of the main international conferences on water loss management and is expected to attract around 500 participants from dozens of countries.
These conferences have been organized biannually since 2002 by the IWA’s group of water loss experts and this edition will have a fully bilingual format (English/Spanish).
The main topics that will be addressed during the conference are:
- Evaluation and design of a strategy to reduce unbilled water
- Leak detection technologies, strategies and equipment
- Asset management and assessment of operating conditions
- Monitoring and management of pressures on the network
- Water measurement
- Digitalization and the use of artificial intelligence
- Smart water networks
- Performance-based management contracts
- Organizational and institutional issues
- Economy and financing
- Training and human resources issues
- Regulations, setting targets, benchmarking and performance indicators
- Worldwide case studies: successes and failures
All the information about the conference and its program is available here.









