PROPOSIÇÃO PARA REDUÇÃO DE PERDAS NO SISTEMA DE ABASTECIMENTO DE ÁGUA DE BAEPENDI - MG

Abstract

Reducing losses can delay the exploration of new water sources, as well as improve the efficiency of supply systems. In most state and municipal sanitation companies, systems operate, often with a high loss that is incompatible with rational and efficient management. Diagnostics often address management issues in network maintenance activities such as poor quality maintenance of the distribution network, excessive pressure on the network, poor quality supply networks or material not suitable for working pressure, and lack of control of leaks. Ignorance of the causes, quantification and their components by the supply systems, becomes a problem to trace effective actions to combat and reduce losses. In the Baependi system it was found that a large portion of the losses are due to leaks caused by constant disruptions of networks that are old and have their useful life already exhausted. To reduce the loss rate one of the adopted strategies is the creation of DMC`s (Districts of Loss Controls), which should be implemented with the objective of acting in a more focused and efficient way, increasing the financial, human and material resources, because losses are present throughout the system, from the capture to the clients residence. Another relevant fact today is the water scarcity that in our region has affected the functioning of the supply systems, causing increased operating costs to sanitation companies. Reducing the loss rate is critical to the sustainability of the Baependi system because it reduces operating costs, postpones system expansion needs and ensures social and environmental sustainability.