The HIDDEN LEAKS OF DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS IN MOUNTAIN AQUEDUCTS: A NECESSARY EVIL?

In the mountain regions, one of the main features in the drinking water distribution network, working with elevated exercise pressure is that of accusing remarkable hidden leaks. Rare are not the cases where the water scattered in the ground overcomes the 50% of the total one introduced in the network.
This is a widespread phenomenon which, besides involving the above-mentioned scattering of that precious good which is water, causes a serious economic damage of the management too.
The note proves, on one side, that the presence of leaks in such remarkable quantities paradoxically presents a positive connotation; on the other side, that the elimination of the leaks is almost impossible unless the drinking water supply network is radically modified.

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