Aplicação de uma ferramenta computacional na leitura setorizada de consumo de água da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG) - Campus Sede.

Abstract

Even though it is the country with the largest potable water reserve in the world, Brazil faces major drought problems due to its mismanagement and the discrepancy in surface water distribution. The drought started in 2012 in the northeast region, considered one of the largest in history, has raised again the concern about the use of water. Water demand management consists of a set of techniques used to control consumption and reduce waste. Rational use is divided into technological actions, social actions and economic actions. As technological action can be mentioned the use of water-saving equipment. Economic actions use financial incentives to influence consumption. And social actions are those that aim at the education of society for the conscious use of this resource. The sectorized measurement, which is already implemented in several places in Brazil, for example in the universities of São Paulo, Bahia and Campina Grande (USP, UFBA and UFCG), is a type of action used to monitor water consumption and avoid waste . At the UFCG headquarters campus, sectorized measurement is done manually and its data is stored in simple spreadsheets, which makes it difficult to follow up and analyze the data. Therefore, the present work proposes to apply for the first time a computational tool, developed to support the monitoring of the data collected in the water consumption readings. From the use of this tool, a summary of the data on the use of water in some buildings was organized and analyzes and comparisons were made on consumption. Thus, it has been demonstrated and proven that water consumption varies according to the use and population of the building, such as building classrooms consume more water than buildings intended for administrative tasks, or buildings that have alternative sources of supply , as reuse of rainwater present a considerable water saving compared to buildings that do not adopt this practice. It was also demonstrated the ease that the use of the software provides in the detection of problems or anomalies in water supply, when detected high or low consumption in the buildings analyzed. Finally, the use of a specific tool for the sectorized measurement has proved to be beneficial for the maintenance of routine records, bringing greater control of the monitoring and intelligent and organized storage of collected data.