Costa Rica

NON-REVENUE WATER REDUCTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY (RANC-EE PROJECT)

Client

Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA)

Year

2024

Construction budget

USD 162 million. Financing: CABEI USD 130 million (KfW funds); AyA USD 30 million; KfW USD 2 million (donation).

Key facts

Beneficiary population: 1.6 million inhabitants in the Greater San José Metropolitan Area, Liberia, Limón, Puntarenas, San Ramón, El Pasito de Alajuela, San Isidro and Guácimo.

Objective: Reduce non-revenue water by 17% and optimise energy efficiency by 7.5%.

Creation of management, institutional, commercial, and technical capacities to implement the project sustainably and autonomously.

Services

Technical consulting project. Implementation and execution of an Action Plan: conceptual design of drinking water distribution networks to make them more water and energy efficient.

Formulation of technical and management strategies for water supply (macro-measurement, sectorisation, system pressure control, leak detection and repair, pipe replacement, customer and infrastructure cadastre, commercial management, micro-measurement, network operational control systems, SCADA and geographic information systems, organisational structure, communication and dissemination).

Institutional support for the project; AyA staff training in technical, commercial and institutional aspects of reducing unaccounted-for water and optimising energy efficiency; and technical assistance to carry out user awareness campaigns.
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Non-revenue water reduction project in Costa Rica, a model for the Central American region

Evolving from a national initiative to a technical reference model in Central America  The Project for the Reduction of Non-Revenue Water and the Optimisation of...
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TYPSA continues developing the RANC-EE project to reduce unmetered water in Costa Rica

At the beginning of July, the German bank KfW and the Central American BCIE, visited Costa Rica, to follow up on the projects financed by...
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TYPSA at the IWA Water Loss 2024 conference

Presentation of the experience gained in the RANC-EE project, Costa Rica Organised by the International Water Association (IWA), the Water Loss 24 conference was held...

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