Strategic Plan for Water Losses Management in Water Supply Systems

Water is at the core of sustainable development and is critical for human survival itself. However, due to failures in public supply networks, a significant amount of water is lost, highlighting the need for a reliable and robust leak detection and location system. Thus, it is important to find ways to improve efficiency in water use, being the reduction of water losses in water supply systems a decisive factor to achieve this goal, which implies the adoption of an active and responsible attitude, to ensure proper management and sustainability of this essential natural resource, increasingly scarce. This article has as its main goal to present an analysis of concepts and methods, through a literature review, and to propose a strategy for planning the reduction and control of water losses in water supply systems, which, admittedly, allows the achievement of economic gains and greater ecological efficiency, leading to an overall improvement of the service. In summary, the implementation of an integrated strategy for water losses management is a reliable option from several perspectives, which justifies its implementation by water companies, with the necessary contextual adaptations and specificities.