The city is divided into 24 sectors to control its volumes, detect possible leaks and be able to act without widespread water outages.

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

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. 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 fire-seeking team by acoustic correlator, which bases its operation on a hood that identifies the characteristic noise that causes 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 by balancing the incoming and outgoing volumes, you can isolate areas that have greater losses and act on them both in the core and in the neighborhoods..

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

Work has begun in the San Nicolás and Paseo Marítimo sectors, and will continue in La Curva in the coming weeks so scheduled supply cuts may have to be made during the nightly period for flow checking. In case of the detection of a leak, a civil works operation would also have to be carried out, with land movement and pavement replacement so that the company feels any discomfort that may cause such work to the neighbors.