There are no invisible leaks in the Mexico City drinking network, which will be determined by devices that discover sound and vibrations.
SAFE Integrated Water Management Secretariat has invested 20 million peso in obtaining equipment that discovers the sound or vibrations of leakage in an underground tube and his liquid does not go to the surface, so it cannot be discovered with a nude scene.
The authorities estimate that for each visible leak, there is another invisible, which must also be repaired.
Among the equipment acquired is 15 geophons, which discover the leaks.
The leakage generates vibrations that are transmitted across the ground and allow them to locate them, because it works as a microphone.
Safegua has created four sets equipped with 15 geophysics that will have a goal in discovering invisible leaks.
Illuminated leakage detection equipment is completed through sound and vibrations with the links, which discover vibrations and the escape site account.
Soansegua has also got a hundred preliminary equipment that discovers the leaks and helps to get a site estimated from leaks so that the crews can start a more detailed research.
Hand cameras and robots
Illuminated leakage detection equipment is completed with four manual cameras, which are inserted into the tubes and the transfer of images.
In addition to four robotic rooms, they are inserted into the tubes and a test of infrastructure to discover the leaks, with the presence of the crews pictures that help determine the size of the error.
They have already repaired 300 hopeless leaks
Using this new team, Safegua fixed around 2025 about 300 invisible leaks, and exceeded what was done without this technology in all 2024, when about 200 was fixed.
The authorities had been one of the invasive leaks that were between ten and 20, as they got rid of about seven liters per second.
Mario Esbaraza, President of Safegua, explained that before communicable leaks were discovered through the estimates of the water system employees in Mexico at the time.
The doubts were that there were communicable leaks regularly dependent on the discounts, because families were less water than it was sent from storage tanks.
Esparza indicated that the new teams have already started to use them in the mayor with invisible leakage problems, including Tlalpan.
The head of Safegua said that in Tlapan they discovered a greater spread of the water they send from storage that reaches much lower quantities to the homes, so they started recording and finding unitable leaks.
Prime Minister Clara Brujada indicated that they have the goal of reforming about four thousand 500 invisible leaks in 2025, which will recover about 600 liters per second of drinking water, enough to supply 180,000 people.
Esparza added that in addition to liquid recovery, pressure in the tubes will also be increased, allowing water to provide with areas beyond the hydraulic network.
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