In Panama, the Institute of National Aqueducts and Sewers (IDAAN) and the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) have made million-dollar investments to improve the country's water supply, however there are different factors that influence water scarcity, ranging from lack of modernization and maintenance of the distribution network, damage to water treatment plants, irrational user consumption and the high delinquency of a public service that has not been reviewed since 1983.
Obtaining access to drinking water implies having a structure that allows water to be conveyed from improved sources to the point of delivery to homes, as well as so that producers and ranchers do not risk national food security. Obtaining access to drinking water implies having a structure that allows water to be conveyed from the improved sources to the point of delivery to the houses.
For this reason, it is necessary to assess the loss and one of the most important ways to describe a loss is undoubtedly through the concept of risk, which is defined as everything that can generate an unwanted event and result in loss and/or damage.
