The Roggio Group at the service of drinking water

The growth of the urban fabric brings with it challenges related to services and infrastructure development, an area where the Roggio Group It has worked for 110 years, carrying out various works and large-scale projects. Specifically in the sector of drinking water networks, he has participated in works that cover the different stages of the process, from the channeling of water, its containment and treatment.

The relationship between water and cities is crucial. Cities require a very large input of freshwater and, in turn, have a huge impact on freshwater systems. Cities cannot be sustainable without ensuring reliable access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

On the importance of drinking water infrastructure

Due to rapid urbanization, cities are facing a growing demand for water and sanitation services. To meet this demand, cities are going further and further away, which causes an overexploitation of water resources.

New solutions are being studied to improve the sustainability of cities. Good urban water management is complex and requires not only water and wastewater infrastructure, but also pollution control and flood prevention. It requires coordination between many sectors and between different local authorities, as well as changes in governance that lead to a more sustainable and equitable use of urban water resources.

Water can be treated differently depending on the quality of the source water entering the treatment plant, which is usually surface or groundwater. Surface water often requires more treatment and filtration than groundwater because lakes, rivers, and streams contain more sediment.

An important means of meeting the growing demand for drinking water in cities is to reduce urban water losses and non-revenue water. Currently, between 25 and 50% of the water distributed worldwide is lost or never billed. This poses both a threat to the environment – especially in areas with severe water scarcity – and to the financial viability of water supply companies, due to lost revenue and unnecessarily high operating costs.

For this reason, the development of technologies and investments in the channeling, containment and treatment of water are essential, such as those carried out by the Roggio Group in different parts of Argentina.

About the works of Roggio Group in the drinking water sector

He Roggio Group was in charge of the project and work of the Los Molinos Canal Aqueduct, in the province of Córdoba, also known as tubed conduction. These are two coupled works for the supply of raw drinking water. The work, covered in its entirety by the Roggio Groupreformulated a 31-kilometre section of the water route that ran under the open sky between Rafael García and the Los Molinos water treatment plant, in the town of Bower.

There, the Pressure Booster Station located near the town of Despeñaderos -one of the largest in Argentina- takes water from the Los Molinos canal and through a pumping system raises the necessary pressure so that it reaches the water treatment plant. Bower’s.

Regarding the containment of water, the Roggio Group He has experience in the construction and reconditioning of dikes both in the province of Córdoba and in Jujuy.

He Piedras Moras Compensator Dam in Almafuerte (Córdoba) it was a work, carried out in 1979, which consisted of the construction of an earthen dam 530 meters long and 57 meters high, on the Tercero River. Also, the project included the construction of the intake tower with its controls and the adduction pipes to feed the plant projected at the foot of the dam itself.

In turn, the Roggio Group was in charge of the refunctioning and improvement of Diversion Dam Los Molinos and Canal Río Grande, for the town of San Salvador de Jujuy. The work consisted of automating the operation and repairing the surfaces where the water had to slide at the exit of the provincial capital, at the confluence of the Grande and Reyes rivers.

In terms of the final leg of the process, the Roggio Group He has experience in the construction of water treatment plants. These are works that, in order to cover the demand for drinking water supply, include the raw water intake, conduits, the water treatment plant itself, raw water pumping station, outlet lifting station and outlet conduit.

About him Roggio Group

The centenary Roggio Group develops projects of great magnitude and complexity, which implies fulfilling the different roles (investor, designer, main contractor and suppliers), to operate as a team. It is among the most relevant construction companies in the region. Although his origin is Argentina, and where he has done most of his work, he has antecedents in Brazil as well as in Paraguay, Panama and Chile.

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