Sanitation infrastructure

Water

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SEDAPAL yesterday convened meeting of the Intersectoral Committee to provide concerted actions to lack of rain in central highlands by El Niño

Lima, January 16, 2016.- SEDAPAL met yesterday to members of the Intersectoral Committee led to concerted action in the presence of El Niño and assessed the current situation of lack of rain that is showing in the central highlands actions and its impact on the water supply for the city of Lima and Callao.

It also recommended reviewing the household sanitation and repair water leaks, and if possible, use saving products, such as pipes, showers and toilets sparing water currently on the market that can generate at least 30 percent saving.

Ing. Ramon Huapaya reported that the Intersectoral Committee led by SEDAPAL is composed of representatives of SUNASS, SENAMHI, the ANA and INDECI, who meet at the call for the company to assess current and future conditions that affect water supply Drinking to the town of Lima and Callao.

http://www.waterworld.com/articles/wwi/print/volume-27/issue-3/regional-spotlight/latin-america/peruvian-progress-for-widespread.html

In its latest report the National Superintendence of Sanitation Services (Sunass) reported that 63% of Peruvians living in urban areas have sanitation services available to them

Sedapal has had to significantly increase its efforts on potable water. Between August 2006 and December 2010 it completed 78 expansion projects adding 199,181 new water connections and 175,792 sewage connections. These projects bring service to approximately 1,056,880 low income persons located in the suburbs of the city.

At the same time the National Institute of Statistics (INEA) published a report stating that the population of the Lima metropolitan area has increased to 8.4 million persons, representing 28% of the total population of Peru. A recent study from Nippon Koei shows that the increase in population is creating a water shortage in the metropolitan area, where the demand is currently 24.15 million cubic meters per day (MMCD) and the availability is 19.55 MMCD, leaving a deficit of 4.60 MMCD.

The Multiflo technology was used together with Turbomix. The use of Multiflo allows the formation of a thicker sludge in the bottom of the lamellar decanter and optimizes the following phases of sludge thickening and dehydration.

Turbomix, on the other hand, increases the mix gradient, thus resulting in higher efficiency of the contact between the chemicals and the liquid mass to be treated in the phases of coagulation and flocculation.

The TGV Filter, with its optimized project, allows for a quick gravitational water filtering using a smaller area. At the Huachipa water treatment plant, the filtering bed is made of only one layer of sand.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/water-wars-in-the-andes/

Nevertheless, droughts associated with El Niño events in the 1980s and 1990s spurred increased migration from rural areas to cities in Peru, and the exodus from Brazil's chronically drought-stricken northeast is one factor in that country's Amazonian deforestation.

More than two-thirds of the country's 29 million people live on the dry western side of the Andes, where less than 2 percent of the country's water flows, while only one-fourth live in Amazonia, which can get more than 80 inches of rain a year.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that by 2020 upwards of 1.5 billion people worldwide will be facing water stress, including anywhere from 7 million to 77 million in Latin America.

With nearly 9 million people, Lima, Peru's capital, is the second-largest desert city in the world, after Cairo. It grew up beside a river that slices down from the Andean highlands to the Pacific Ocean.

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