The main objective of the project is to contribute to the development of tools that can be used to maintain the quality of the water in the distribution network of the metropolitan area of Porto. This is a key objective for the AdDP company and achieving it has a large socio-economical impact in this area of Portugal given the size of the population served by this distribution network. The project will help this general goal by means of:

• developing models for monitoring water quality parameters measured across the network, with the goal of timely signaling abnormal deviations.

• developing predictive models for forecasting water quality parameter values with the goal of helping to carry out preventive actions that can avoid abnormal values.

• developing predictive models to estimate the value of several water quality parameters in different points of the network using information obtained at other spatially correlated points.

• developing models for discovering correlations among water quality parameters.