Practice and enlightment of contract water-saving to promote leakage control in water supply networks:a case study of Xiangshan County,Zhejiang Province
The Regulation on Water Conservation clearly encourages the development of water-saving service industry.Xian-gshan County in Zhejiang Province adopts a contract water-saving management model that ensures water-saving effects and shares water-saving benefits.It has introduced funds and technology from water-saving service enterprises to address the problem of water supply network leakage,established a zoning leakage control system,and improved the level of manage-ment team.Water saving service enterprises and contracted water-saving entities have achieved economic benefits while al-leviating the water shortage situation in Xiangshan County,This article takes Xiangshan County as acase study to analyze the implementation plan of regional contract water-saving,evaluates and analyze its water-saving benefits,and summarize the experience of regional contract water-saving in Xiangshan County,in order to provide references for other regions to a-dopt contract water-saving mode systems and efficiently manage water supply network leakage problems.