Proposed meta-model for the regulation of the urban demand for drinking water

Abstract

Globally, the regulation for the provision of the aqueduct service is based on the costs of providing the service of the company, especially in the future demand, an example of this is the indicator to calculate inputs and costs of production of the good and service. In this sense, efficiency, financial and budgetary sufficiency depends to a large extent on the accuracy of measurements and projections determined for a market environment, within the doctoral research project "Regulatory Model For drinking water in long-term horizons", it was proposed a meta-model of urban demand for drinking water in scenarios of unstable equilibrium, with solidarity criteria and prioritization of eco-environmental investments. Methodologically, several statistical tools were applied to determine the best method. Therefore, the calculation of water demand was related and it was found that the determinants, variables and other criteria conditioned by the structure of the territory and the different socioeconomic parameters should be managed. In addition, the decision support system aided by a neural network analysis, was better suited to the conditions of urban complexes. However, there were difficulties in the search for information, since the meta-models are a relatively recent tool in comparison to the registration of information in aqueduct service databases.