diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9312ae0..59027b4 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Imports:
     rlang,
     stringr,
     tibble,
+    tidyr,
     tidyselect
 Suggests: 
     covr,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index aae27e1..525fe20 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ export(get_units_list)
 export(prepare_atmosphere_input)
 export(read_alevel)
 export(read_atmosph)
+export(read_balance)
 export(read_meta_general)
 export(read_obsnode)
 export(read_profile)
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ importFrom(readr,read_table)
 importFrom(rlang,.data)
 importFrom(stats,setNames)
 importFrom(stringr,str_detect)
+importFrom(stringr,str_extract)
 importFrom(stringr,str_pad)
 importFrom(stringr,str_remove)
 importFrom(stringr,str_remove_all)
@@ -50,6 +52,7 @@ importFrom(stringr,str_split_fixed)
 importFrom(stringr,str_trim)
 importFrom(tibble,as_tibble)
 importFrom(tibble,tibble)
+importFrom(tidyr,pivot_longer)
 importFrom(tidyselect,all_of)
 importFrom(tidyselect,starts_with)
 importFrom(utils,read.fwf)
diff --git a/R/read_balance.R b/R/read_balance.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5b4792
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/read_balance.R
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#' Read BALANCE.out
+#'
+#' @description Reads BALANCE.out output
+#'
+#' @param path full path to BALANCE.out file (default: system.file("extdata/model/test/BALANCE.out",
+#' package = "kwb.hydrus1d"))
+#' @return tibble with "balance" time series
+#' run
+#' @importFrom stringr str_extract str_remove_all str_split_fixed str_trim
+#' @importFrom tibble tibble as_tibble
+#' @importFrom dplyr bind_cols
+#' @importFrom tidyselect starts_with
+#' @importFrom tidyr pivot_longer
+#' @export
+read_balance <- function (path =  system.file("extdata/model/test/BALANCE.out",
+                                              package = "kwb.hydrus1d")) {
+
+lines <- readLines(path)
+
+#meta <- read_meta_general(content_general = lines[3:5])
+
+calctime_seconds <- lines[grep("Calculation time", lines)] %>%
+  stringr::str_extract("\\d+?\\.\\d+") %>%
+  as.double()
+
+#dplyr::bind_cols(tibble::tibble("calculationtime_seconds" = calctime_seconds))
+
+
+block_start <- grep("^ Time", lines)
+block_end <- c(block_start[2:length(block_start)]-4, length(lines)-3)
+
+blocks <- tibble::tibble(id = seq_len(length(block_start)),
+                         start_idx = block_start,
+                         end_idx = block_end)
+
+
+budget <- lapply(seq_len(nrow(blocks)), function(i) {
+
+block_sel_txt <- lines[blocks$start_idx[i]:blocks$end_idx[i]]
+
+
+time <- stringr::str_extract(block_sel_txt[1], "\\d+?\\.\\d+") %>%
+  as.double()
+subregion_ids <-  c(0, stringr::str_extract_all(block_sel_txt[3], "\\d+?")[[1]] %>%
+  as.integer())
+
+bal_id_start <- grep("Length", block_sel_txt)
+bal_id_end <- length(block_sel_txt)
+
+
+lapply(block_sel_txt[bal_id_start:bal_id_end], function(x) {
+  stringr::str_extract_all(x, "\\d+?\\.\\d+")[[1]] %>% as.double() %>% t() %>%
+    tibble::as_tibble()
+}) %>%
+  dplyr::bind_rows()
+
+names(balance) <- sprintf("id_%d", subregion_ids)
+
+
+parvals <- block_sel_txt[bal_id_start:bal_id_end] %>%
+  stringr::str_remove_all("-?\\d+?\\.\\d+E\\+?-?\\d\\d") %>%
+  stringr::str_trim()
+
+parvals_df <- parvals %>%
+  stringr::str_split_fixed("\\[.*\\]", n = 3) %>%
+  tibble::as_tibble()
+
+names(parvals_df) <- c("parameter", "unit", "solute_id")
+
+parvals_df$parameter <- parvals_df$parameter %>% stringr::str_trim()
+parvals_df$solute_id <- as.integer(parvals_df$unit)
+parvals_df$unit <- stringr::str_extract(parvals, "\\[(.*)\\]") %>%
+  stringr::str_remove_all("\\[|\\]") %>%
+  stringr::str_trim()
+
+
+
+dplyr::bind_cols(tibble::tibble(time = time,
+                                parvals_df), balance)
+}) %>%
+  dplyr::bind_rows() %>%
+  tidyr::pivot_longer(cols = tidyselect::starts_with("id_"),
+                      names_to = "subdomain_id") %>%
+  dplyr::mutate(subdomain_id = stringr::str_remove(subdomain_id,
+                                                   "id_") %>%
+                  as.integer())
+
+
+}
diff --git a/man/read_balance.Rd b/man/read_balance.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71cf3bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/read_balance.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/read_balance.R
+\name{read_balance}
+\alias{read_balance}
+\title{Read BALANCE.out}
+\usage{
+read_balance(
+  path = system.file("extdata/model/test/BALANCE.out", package = "kwb.hydrus1d")
+)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{path}{full path to BALANCE.out file (default: system.file("extdata/model/test/BALANCE.out",
+package = "kwb.hydrus1d"))}
+}
+\value{
+tibble with "balance" time series
+run
+}
+\description{
+Reads BALANCE.out output
+}