Drinkwater

The pilot project has many local goals, but besides local ambitions, there are also goals for the environment. One of the resident targets relates to the demand for drinking water. Every year, the need for drinking water is increasing. It is predicted that the water peaks will rise more and more in the future. The water peaks need to be flattened out, to prevent the water peaks from becoming styles. Flattened out the peaks can be done with clean water buffers. These make sure that the pressure on the drinking water sources is reduced.

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Clean water buffer

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The clean water buffer is used to store drinking water and purified rainwater. The drinking water can be used at peak times of the drinking water demand. The buffer can flatten the peak moments. During the peak hours of the water demand, this can be done to fill the buffer with drinking water from the central drinking water network. This stored water is stored locally and is used during peak hours. The decentralised drinking water is used during peak times and the drinking water from the centralised network is replenished. If the clean water buffer is empty, the water is supplied from the central network. The local clean water buffer must decrease the pressure on the central network during peak hours.
Three pumps are needed to supply the drinking water to the end-user. One of these pumps is a reserve pump. The two other pumps supply the drinking water to the inhabitants. The apartment block has a pump and the ground-level houses have a pump. The pump of the apartment complex has a pressure boosting facility to supply the drinking water in the upper levels of the building. In the pilot, the clean water buffer ensures that sufficient drinking water can be supplied to the residents.

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Drinking water peak

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”42px”][vc_column_text]On average, people consume 119.3 litres of drinking water per day. The drinking water consumption of 119.3 litres per day is distributed throughout the day. Most consumption on a day is in peak hours, this is when people get up and get ready in the morning and come home from work in the evening.
In the project, the number of connections was used for the calculations. The connections are estimated at 130 in the project. A connection is equal to 2.2 inhabitants. 2.2 is because the average family consists of 2.2 people. To reduce the drinking water peak during peak hours, the central network is disconnected, and use is made of the decentralized network (clean water buffer). The decentralized network must ensure that the graph of drinking water use is flattened. Through innovative measures, the demand for drinking water is also reduced. More information about this can be found in the other chapters of ”WATER CYCLE”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”150px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1578404682319{border-top-width: 30px !important;border-right-width: 30px !important;border-bottom-width: 30px !important;border-left-width: 30px !important;padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;background-color: #36a9e1 !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”5/12″][vc_single_image img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/12″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”5/12″][vc_single_image img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”200px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]