Water treatment plants in Panama lack centralized data analytics and chemical processes. Our team worked with Panama’s national water authority, IDAAN, to help optimize these processes by collecting data to analyze trends between chemical usage and offer recommendations to improve the treatment of crude water into potable water. Despite repeated attempts to communicate with our sponsor and agency officials, including multiple visits to agency offices, we never received the necessary data to complete our analysis or the project. Our reflection on the experience taught us how to adapt to changes in the real world.

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Creator

• Eller, Flint
• Wheet, Benjamin
• Manfredi, Zach
• Kennedy, William

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Health
• Inclusion
• Environment
• Infrastructure
• Sustainability
• Water

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 79171
• E-project-101422-110437

Keyword

• water infrastructure
• water access
• IDAAN
• water

Advisor

• Burrier, Grant A.
• Chiarelli, James A.

Year

• 2022

Center

• Panama City, Panama Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• IDAAN
• Footprint Possibilities

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

Date created

• 2022-10-14

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-101422-110437

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-09-06