Estudo da demanda de água não potável e desenvolvimento de um sistema de reúso de água cinza para habitações de interesse social

Abstract

This work studies the demand for unsafe drinking water and the development of a system for reuse of greywater for social interest housing (SIH). The study presents a characterization of the profile of water consumption in a community of SIH – the Jabaeté Residential in Vila Velha (ES). Investigates what water conservation actions best apply in everyday community in question, analyzing the reuse compared to the other interventions evaluated and finally, proposes some possible configurations of reuse systems in this community, through architectural design, as preliminary studies. These studies indicated an average consumption of water in SIH studied of 79 l.p-1d-1 and other indexes relating to the demand for potable water in every household activity (the most representative is the laundry, responsible for approximately 41% for total consumption). The methodology was based on questionnaires and monitoring of water consumption by reading water meters. By applying a method of decision support – Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) – it was determined the advantage of practices such as the use of dual discharge and segregating urine basin on the reuse of greywater. Furthermore projectual studies were performed of two types of configurations reuse systems: the decentralized and semi decentralized system, for which it was budgeted deployment costs. Observed economic advantage from adopting the semi decentralized, whose implementation can be up to 112% cheaper than the decentralized system.