More than 51,000 users of the five colonies that make up Cabo San Lucas, in the state of Baja California Sur (Mexico), have already benefited from the Comprehensive Management Improvement Project (MIG) of the drinking water networks that are being developed Aqualia to modernize, equip, operate and maintain the municipality’s hydraulic infrastructure.
Since work began last January, the company has served more than 12,000 homes through the free replacement of water meters and household outlets in the colonies of Cangrejos, Centro, Ejidal, Miramar and Venados. “With the replacement of water meters we ensure correct and fair measurement of water consumption. Regarding home intakes, they have been changed exclusively in neighborhoods or streets with records and history of recurring leaks in the structure that makes up the home intake” explains Carlos Loyola Peterson, director of the MIG Project. Likewise, the action provides technological solutions by having four telemetry teams.
Improve network performance
The MIG Project is a public-private partnership contract between Aqualia and the Municipal Operating Agency of the Drinking Water System (OOMSAPAS Los Cabos) designed to maximize the efficiency of the supply system of water, eliminate the current system of batching and reduce losses of drinking water. It lasts 10 years and its main objective is to comprehensively improve the physical efficiency of the hydraulic infrastructure to increase network performance up to 75%, compared to a current average of 55%.
To this end, Aqualia will implement various actions distributed in four phases that will allow modernize and optimize the system of drinking water in order to offer a continuous service with the established pressure, quantity and quality to more than 200,000 inhabitants that populate this municipality, which is also one of the main tourist destinations in Mexico.
This circumstance represents a challenge in water management for the social, tourist, environmental and economic development of the area, which is characterized by a mainly dry climate and in which it is common for the demand for water to greatly exceed the volumes available in the current supply sources, something that forces the organization operator to exploit the available sources to the maximum through a trial and error system.
‘Aqualia Live’, more efficient and sustainable management
The initiative contemplates digital transformation like a key strategy in achieving the sustainability, efficiency and management improvement objectives of the service. In this sense, the actions carried out focus on the development of new technological solutions aimed at obtaining data in real time from the different points of the water cycle, the management and operation of networks in a centralized manner, the automated regulation of pressures, the launch of work orders or the digitization of the micrometer park.
To achieve this, Aqualia has developed various intelligent management systems that revolve around a single, centralized smart platform, called ‘Aqualia Live’capable of integrating all the processes that encompass water management, incorporating new technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things), Big Data, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence, and whose purpose is to achieve more efficient and sustainable technical management of the water. water.
Furthermore, the four stages of the project are regulated by an Environmental and Social, Health and Safety Management System, which aims to evaluate and supervise all the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of each action.
The contract contributes a portfolio of 53 million euros and includes a approximate investment of 32 million euros (600 million pesos). The Mexican government, through Banobras (National Bank of Public Works and Services) finances 49% of the total investment through non-refundable funds. The rest will be financed by Aqualia.
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