Comparación de estándares de potabilización: PTAP TIBITOC (Colombia) vs. PTAP FEDERICO GUARDIA CONTE (panamá)

Abstract

Water is an essential resource for life itself and for the development of different daily human activities. This water resource requires an effective purification and distribution process that guarantees its quality and safety in terms of health and supply before being available for human use and consumption. Through the different existing purification processes and the technologies implemented in them, the complete eradication of physical, chemical, and microbiological contaminants harmful to human health is carried out, which guarantees the beneficiary communities the supply of drinking water with quality standards governed by the regulations that regulate water purification in each country. These national regulations applied in Colombia and Panama are independent and autonomous, however, there are international regulations governed by the WHO that regulate parameters and aspects of purification at a global level. In this research work, a comparison is made between two drinking water treatment plants of great importance in terms of population supply and implementation of efficient technologies within their processes, one of them is the Tibitoc WWTP located in Colombia and the other is the Federico Guardia Conte WWTP located in Panama, this comparison from an international perspective allows to analyze both systems, contributing significantly at an investigative level in an analysis that allows to identify proposals for technological and sustainable development that may be useful to improve the purification processes of the two WWTPs that are the object of this research, thus protecting within the two countries the fundamental right called public health