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DRINKING WATER AS THE MAIN FOUNDATION AND KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDY CATSKILL TREATMENT PLANT- DELAWARE
Ricardo Monroy*, Frank Freddi Galaraga, Yisenia Gamboa Fandiño, Natalia Gómez Rojas, Felipe Santamaria, Eliana Martinez and Vanessa Rodríguez Rueda
ABSTRACT
Ensuring easy and safe access to drinking water is a matter of vital importance in all the world's metropolises, as well as a competitive market between ETAPs (Drinking Water Treatment Stations) or water treatment plants. Catskill-Delaware is an innovative drinking water treatment plant that works with 90% of New York's water, supplying the city with a total of 2 billion gallons per day making it the largest drinking water treatment plant in the world. world, having a large capacity for water storage with 87.6 m3/s. From a hydraulic basin, the water is transferred to the treatment plant, passing through an ultraviolet disinfection that, as explained by Wright and Cairns, ?ultraviolet light is a disinfection alternative to the use of chlorine and ozone in many potable and wastewater applications?, being this an excellent alternative for the disinfection of water, wastewater and industrial waters (Aguilar et al, 2015). This treatment plant has a route of approximately 19 kilometers, going from New York to Westchester, where the treatment plant is located, being used from 2012 to the present, this work was carried out because the council decided to open a research for the greater efficiency of the processes that are carried out in these plants, according to Martin Jessica "The monitoring project of the septic systems of Catskill Watershed Corporation was developed to meet this need",Giving a solution to the management and effectiveness of drinking water allowing it to be friendly to the environment by recycling and processing wastewater and promoting the sustainable development initiative proposed by the United Nations.
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