Formulación del plan y uso eficiente del agua en el distrito de riego de pequeña escala de la vereda Belén, en el municipio de Silos, Norte de Santander.

Abstract

The purpose of this project has been the formulation of a program for saving and efficient use of water in the small-scale irrigation district of the Belén district of the municipality of Silos, which benefits the community and supplies the resource to the different households in this area, benefiting the agricultural sector. One objective of the study was to identify the factors that influence the poor management and current use of water sources. Based on this analysis, a methodology was created in which the agreement of priorities to make a plan was recognized, through a series of activities in the course of the small-scale irrigation district, being necessary in the attention of environmental aspects of 12 the community, giving solutions to the problems found in order to achieve the implementation of the project through these activities. For this, it was carried out the compilation of the information by means of an exhaustive search in articles, digital libraries and some "post" in the Web to arrive to the problematic, an inductive investigation was carried out that carried out information from the general to the particular. According to the above, a study was conducted that allowed the identification of habits and knowledge about the program, carrying out different activities such as field trips, collection of information for the specification of the conditions of the area, according to compliance with environmental regulations; Then a diagnosis was made to the infrastructure to assess the environmental impacts and affectations to the community; Estimating the water supply and demand to produce a water balance; Calculate the losses generated by the infrastructure and finally generate programs as a result for efficient use and saving water for the benefit of the current community and future generations.