Detecção e quantificação de vazamentos em prédios públicos: CCHLA, CE e CCSA da UFPB

Abstract

Water is an essential source of life and all living organisms on planet Earth depend on water for their survival. From this perspective, the water crisis is installed in the various regions of the planet Earth due to climatic factors, as well as being a reduced resource to the quality of life of human populations by presenting frequent demands and poor management of resources Existing. The modes of use by which humans use water demonstrate the means of pollution and their waste. The water scarcity on the planet entails serious consequences such as the precariousness in the quality of life of individuals, the poor condition caused by public health, such as rationing, problems with the lack of water for animal, personal and global consumption, besides affect several other segments of society that need water for its operation. The present work aims to quantify water leaks at the Center for Humanities, literature and arts – CCHLA, Center for Education – CE and the Center for Applied Social Sciences – CCSA of the Universidade Federal da Paraíba – UFPB, on the campus of João Pessoa. The justification occurs in the face of thematic relevance, as the detection of leaks in public buildings imposes itself as a technical instrument for assessing the use of water and, therefore, in the interests, concepts and practices inherent in engineering Environmental. The contextualization of the study shows that the increased demand for water due to the accentuated growth of the population, together with the climatic changes that cause situations of drought stress, which has caused a concern with the preservation of this resource Natural, bringing the need to implement alternatives that minimize these impacts. Therefore, several programs that involve the rational use of water have been created, resulting in significant economies of both water and financial resources. Law n º 9,130, referring to the creation of the conservation and rational use of water program in public buildings of the state of Paraíba, aims to establish measures that encourage the conservation and rational use of water, as well as to provide awareness The importance of water conservation. As to the methodology of the research itself, it is the survey of the literature updated around studies on the rational use of water in public buildings, around a diagnosis of the toilets of the environments effectively researched, aiming, Finally, the presentation of alternatives of rational use that can be applied in the selected locations, where we use the data from SABESP to identify the measures of drip leakage, as well as the analysis of the structure of CAGEPA and visual inspections To detect visible leaks. Several points of leakage were detected in the toilets, estimating a water loss of approximately 105.205 m3/month. Through consultation with the tariff structure of the CAGEPA – water and sewage company of Paraíba, was calculated the monthly cost equivalent to this loss of water by leaks, since, for a consumption above 10 m³, a public place must pay R $12.89 per m³ of water cons Moisture. As the total wasted totaled 105.205 m³/month, the calculated value was R $1,356.09 per month, in which case there was no waste 23 people could be supplied monthly.