Implementation of the Geoportal for the Drinking Water and Sanitation Administrative Board - JAAPyS - Santa Fé Centro, year 2023

Abstract

Introduction: in our country  has been created the  respective legislation and control bodies  that regulate the work of the  Water Management Boards responsible for the management of water resources, the same ones that must manage elements of infrastructure of the drinking water system (catchments, conduction networks, distribution networks, control valves,   household connections), economic information on charges for water consumption, registration of  users (new and change  of beneficiaries), failure data, repairs, infrastructure expansions; however, due to the limited economic resources managed by these organizations, it is difficult for them to provide quality services, efficiently take advantage of water resources,  Guarantee  the conservation  of water sources and the provision of drinking water service to all the inhabitants of the community.   Objectives: to support the fulfillment of the sixth objective of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development approved by the UN in 2015 Clean Water and Sanitation, has been a concern of several organizations worldwide, including FAO, UNESCO WWAP, UNDP, UNECE and UNEP, who have proposed to help achieve efficient management of water resources   for the benefit of users; Digital technologies are used for this purpose.  Methodology: this research is of applied type, with a mixed approach, field, and documentary and descriptive, for which a methodology was established for   collecting technical data on the behavior of water resources and distribution networks of the drinking water system. Results: methodology to collect information for a drinking water system, maps of the existing infrastructure, updated lists of users and the geoportal using free software with information obtained from the JAAP-S Santa Fé Centro. Conclusions:  the JAAP-S has a geoportal, in which managers will be able to visualize the changes that occur in the elements of the physical infrastructure of the drinking water system over time. General area of study: Software. Specific area of study:  Geographic Information Systems.