Article

Jorge Alberto Arciniegas Badillo Code:15201103

For years, particularly in developing unries, companies providing drinking water service
(EPS) have usedirical procres locae, teir dribution netwrks, the points at which periodic
sampling to ensure that they comply with the minimum water quality stards. Althogh tday
these cmpanies have excellent computer tools to model the dynamics of water in
networkwell as the evolution of water quality, there is not enough data to scientifically
choose these points. In particular, the decay coefficients of chlorine, both body and wall,
are not available. Despite this limitation, methodologies have been developed and
implemented with the aim of designing sensor networks that guarantee monitoring of water
quality in distribution systems, but these involve a high degree of uncertainty. In the
research object of this article, a methodology was developed that would allow in this
environment of few data, to choose water quality monitoring points (PMC) that responded
simultaneously to two typical problems of distribution networks. On the one hand, the aim
was to guarantee the quality of the water, as measured by a chlorine residual, using
software developed for this study, and on the other hand to detect problems of water
coloring (a phenomenon in which water reaches a set of water). users have a different color
than transparent, affecting the perception of quality by said users) due to the detachment of
biofilms, making use of the TEVA-SPOT program (Berry et al., 2008). This last approach
can be developed under the optimization of multiple objective functions according to the
type of protection that one wishes to guarantee, against the coloration events. The new
methodology was applied successfully in the 37 hydraulic sectors in which the drinking
water network of the city of Bogotá, Colombia (approximately 8,000,000 inhabitants) is
divided. Finally, although the study was carried out for the 37 sectors, one of these sectors
was taken, as an example for this document, as a type network. The results show that both
methodologies are reliable and that the design of the sensor network depends on the
objective to be optimized. Published in technology and water sciences: ISSN 2007-2422