A novel approach to model for the management of drinking water and sanitation services at municipal scale

Abstract

This paper deals with a novel approach to the model for the management of drinking water and sanitation services at the municipal level for the Municipality of San Joaquin, Carabobo State, Venezuela (SJM-CS). The Autonomous Institute of Water (IAGUASAJO) of the SJM-CS showed a significant increase in the performance of its functions with respect to the Municipal Directorate of Water and Public Works in the period 2019-2021. In the period 2020-2021, IAGUASANJO has performed functions with the main service provider at the regional/national level as well as with the communal councils of four communes located within the Municipality of San Joaquin. These functions encompassed the supervision, inspection, construction and rehabilitation of drinking water and sanitation services, making progress in the process of transition from the provision of services from the regional/national provider to the local provider at the municipal level.

An approach to remediation of a tropical aquifer contaminated with hydrocarbons

“…The groundwater flow (GF) along the first saturated stratum in the gas station resulted varying between 0.92 (MW‐14) and 4.43 L/s (MW‐8), whose range is close to the most frequently extracted flow for human consumption within a residential zone in the San Diego aquifer and San Joaquin aquifer, both located in Venezuela, which was measured in an interval between 0 and 6 L/s (Huguet‐Sierra et al., 2021; Peraza‐Barreto et al., 2021).…”