Caracterización de la curva de consumo diario de la red de agua potable de la zona urbana del cantón Mocha provincia de Tungurahua

Abstract

.It was necessary to identify the behavior of drinking water consumption, the results of which will allow maintenance and design work to be carried out, in order to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants. For this reason, through sampling, the daily consumption per household, per-capita consumption, weekly consumption, daily consumption patterns, hours and pressures in the system were determined. During the development of this study, a field data collection was carried out, whose activities were the following: selection of a sample of 100 homes, identification of the type of homes, recording of daily consumption for a period of 60 days, record of hourly consumption in a sample of 6 dwellings for 24 hours for 30 days and record of pressures in a sample of 100 dwellings for 7 days. In turn, a subdivision of the study sector was made taking into account its main economic activities, land use and occupation. Thus obtaining 3 sub-areas of study: agricultural - livestock area, central - urban area and industrial area. The data collected in the field allowed obtaining results for each subzone and sector of study. The results obtained are: Daily sector consumption 0.583 m3/day, agriculturallivestock area 0.474 m3/day, central-urban area 0.577 m3/day, industrial area 0.671 m3/day. Per-capita consumption of the sector 167.27 lt/inhab/day, agriculturallivestock area 141.20 lt/inhab/day, central-urban area 167.00 lt/inhab/day, industrial area 185.82 lt/inhab/day.