The use of ultrasound equipment to locate network losses has detected a hundred points that have already been repaired

The City Council of Adra together with Hidralia, the management company of the Municipal Water supply and sewerage service, launched in September a plan to search for leaks throughout the municipality, in order to increase the performance of the drinking water distribution system and avoid the reduction of flow in the tanks.

So far, as this initiative will continue in the coming weeks, more than a hundred water loss points have been located in the grid in different areas, which are currently being repaired, already achieved daily water savings in the town of more than 300,000 liters per day.

The objective is to achieve a water balance in the municipality, in the face of the scarcity that has been noticed by the lack of rain and drop in flows in the aquifer, one of the consequences of advancing climate change.

Innovation

This reality requires optimizing the efficiency of water management, working to achieve as much of the savings as possible, without creating harm to citizens, and doing so through innovation and technology improvement in services, which is why Hidralia has established in Adra a team that seeks solutions by acoustic correlator, which bases its operation on a hood that identifies the characteristic noise that produces the leak in the network that runs through subsoil, expanding it for location.

It is an ultrasound equipment that allows to locate the leak without making a general water cut, nor having to open ditches until it is found that there is a possible leak in the network. This work is complemented by a sectorization of the distribution network, dividing into separate areas, so that each of them can be considered autonomously. The municipality of Adra has 24 sectors and, thanks to the control of flows in them carrying out the balance of the incoming and outgoing volumes, areas that have the greatest losses can be isolated and act on them both in the core and in the slums.

Effective planning as it allows to act quickly and competently in the face of leaks and, therefore, save on water consumption by preventing it from wasting.