Drinkable water. Esatdo Zulia-Venezuela

IT WATERS DOWN FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. The water must have a few specific properties that support his natural quality (to be transparent, odourless, insipid ...), though he presents disueltas a series of you go out in certain quantities that make her more or less estimated for his use and consumption. To be able to use the natural water, the human beings we must submit it to a set of specific treatments to make her drinkable. This way, the drinkable water must contain either pathogenic microorganisms of any type, nor toxic substances, must have neither flavor, nor smell, nor color, nor disagreeable turbidity.

In the municipality Maracaibo, to open the faucet of the wash basin can have several results, depending of what day is and in what zone he is. There might go out of the valve a long jet of water, a modest thread or an exasperating puff of air, because the water service in the city is rationed for 20 years.

The problem of the rationing is structural, because the distribution system of the city does not have compensation. Normally, the system must cover demands in moments beaks: early in the morning, to the midday and in the evening, when the water requirement increases. But the current system cannot supply the demand of the whole city in these moments ", it makes clear.

Another key expenditure of the system is represented by the numerous captures of drinkable water that are used of undue form for the irrigation of cultures. " The drinkable water used for the irrigation forms a part of a demand that is not assessed, because it is not supposed that it is used by this end ", he says. " This, added to the occasional faults in the pipelines and the not authorized captures, contributes to the depressurization of the system ".