We would like to acknowledge New Zealand’s International Aid and Development Agency for funding this program. We would also like to thank all our colleagues in Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission, Pacific Water Association and Wide Bay Water Corporation for their help and support, and in particular all the people we have had the pleasure to work with so far throughout the Pacific region. Many sources of knowledge exist in this field but for this website we are especially thankful to the International Water Association’s water loss task force for their philosophy and methodology, CEO Tim Waldron and General Manager David Wiskar of Wide Bay Water Corporation for the information contained in the Corporation’s water loss manuals and for giving access to the latest research results, and finally Professor Stuart White at the Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney, as editor of the Wise Water Management manual (research report no. 86, 1998).
We truly hope to continue supporting the countries that are already working on minimising their water losses, and we look forward to meeting new colleagues in the future.
We hope that more pacific island countries will appreciate the importance of water demand management and take part in this program as it is an economic, fast and efficient way of improving your water supply system to the betterment and benefit of the national economy, environment and society.
