Acoplamento de SIG e Epanet como ferramenta de apoio à decisão nas emissões de viabilidades técnicas de abastecimento de água para empreendimentos

Abstract

Water resource planning is a complex task because it involves a range of actors with often conflicting interests. In addition, the disorganized growth of the big cities and the water shortage lead to the managers the necessity to make decisions marked by Decision Support Systems - SADs. This problem affect sanitation companies that comprise the water resources system in Ceará as an industry that requests grant of use for treatment and distribution of treated water within the parameters required by law. In this context, the management of the water supply system is a challenge for state companies, considering that the great mesh of their infrastructure is buried. Knowing the system to decide to extend or maintain it is strategic for the survival of the companies. Geographic Information Systems that seek to provide the public manager with a decision support tool appear. In this work, we sought to demonstrate the applicability of such a tool under the view of a case study of viability of the interconnection of private enterprises in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza, through a coupling between GIS and hydraulic software, having, in the end, a technical solution to enable the entry of demand into the Water Supply System.