LAVOZDELANZAROTE.COM
The CEO of the Insular Water Company (Inalsa), Mario Pérez, has announced that the company will have an Action Plan to detect losses produced in the network, which until now are impossible to control immediately, with the consequent loss of tons of water.
During a meeting held this Thursday between the plant managers of Inalsa, it was proposed that the company have a self-control and remote management device. "The problem is that it is a really considerable investment, so we will have to undertake it in parts," said Mario Pérez.
If this action plan finally materializes, it will not have to be the users themselves who call the company to report the losses, but in a completely automated way, the system will detect and quickly report any leak produced.
Currently, the Inalsa network extends for about 451 kilometers within the surface of Lanzarote. A large part of these kilometers of the network have been checked this year for the first time thanks to a leak detection campaign, with the aim of repairing those sections in need of major repairs.
"This sectorization process - which has been developing since last January - allows us to detect how much water is entering a certain town or neighborhood and locate it within that remote management system," said the CEO of Inalsa.
According to Mario Pérez, according to daily production and consumption data, the company perfectly controls how much water is lost in the network due to leaks. This amount currently amounts to approximately 30 percent.
Of this percentage, "some important cases occur as a result of leaks and in other cases due to fraud within the network." In this sense, Mario Pérez stressed that from October of last year to the present Inalsa has proceeded to open a total of 317 sanctioning files.
The nationalist leader stressed that "a large part of these network losses are due to an obsolete network that we must change." Hence the investment requests requested from the Cabildo, the Government of the Canary Islands and the State.
"We hope that many of the actions we have planned will materialize so that it does not affect our 55,000 subscribers," he concluded.
