General Information

Project: “Monitoring the effect that precipitation events have on the water quality of sources for drinking water supply in the city of Panama”

 

SENACYT Code: Project COL07-036

Objetive

General Objective:

 

  • Create the institutional and technical capacity to estimate the effect of extreme rainfall events in the water quality of drinking water sources for the city of Panama.

Specific Objective:

  • Development of a protocol for sampling rainfall events.
  • Find  relationships between basic  water quality parameters and event magnitude.
  • Disclosure of the results obtained.


Benefits

 

  • Complete study on the effect of rainfall extreme events on the quality of drinking water sources.
  • Institutional capacity building.
  • Information useful for institutions such as: IDAAN, ANAM, MINSA and ACP.
  • Knowledge transfer.