Water Supply Line Leakage Management In Addis Ababa The Case Of Bole Subcity In The Districte Metered Area Of The Water Works Enterprise

The percentage of people served with some form of improved water supply rose from time torntime. On the other hand, shortcomings in the management of water by focusing on developingrnnew water sources rather than managing existing ones, and top-down sector approaches to waterrnmanagement have resulted in uncoordinated development and management of the resource. Therncity of Addis Ababa is suffering from losing 35.73% of its supply in its distribution systems.rnA study was conducted to identify the communities water leakage related knowledge, andrnassessed AAWSA‘s practice of water leakage management, and explained the gap between therncommunities knowledge of water leakage and AAWSA practice of water leakage managementrnusing District Metered Area application in the study area.rnSemi structured questionnaire, interviews, field measurement and document surveys was used torncollect the relevant data. The semi structured questionnaire form, which was attended by arncovering letter, consisted six parts. The first part sought Demographic and householdrncharacteristics information about the respondents profile and the second part assesses the Waterrnsources and service leakage data .In the third part, participants were asked to tell if there arerninformation sources about water leakage. The fourth part the respondents requested to explainrntheir Life experience and psychosocial factors when there is shortage of water. The fifth part thernrespondents requested to know about the Household water perception data. On the sixth part thernrespondents requested if they have understanding to take Measures of water-related behaviorsrnand policy support. The interviewee incorporates officials of AAWSA expert members. Therndata‘s collected were entered in to SPSS version 21 software. Software analysis was used tornevaluate water leakage knowledge of the study population. The results of the field measurementrnwere also presented it was seen that there is low and fragmented connection between therncommunity understanding and the practical application of leakage management. The conclusionrnpart concludes the findings by considering the existing water leakage management knowledge ofrnthe community and the AAWSA water leakage management practice and recommendation wererngiven on the subject matter of the study.

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