Formulación de un Programa de Uso Eficiente y Ahorro del Agua (PUEAA) aplicado en el sector productivo agrícola en el distrito de riego “La Esperanza” en el municipio de Silos, Norte de Santander.

Abstract

The following study was carried out under the provisions of Law 373 of 1997, within which it stipulates that every entity that uses water resources for its activities must have an Efficient Use and Saving of Water Program, this is done with the objective is to improve the use of technologies, processes and activities that allow a rational and adequate use for the use of water and its preservation. In order to grant the required permits for the use of water in the La Esperanza irrigation district, which is located in the municipality of Silos, Norte de Santander, different actions were carried out, starting with the recognition and identification from the supplying water source, this was followed by a record of the tankers and a diagnosis of the hydraulic infrastructure to obtain the average flows of the water that was used and, consequently, surveys were carried out in order to collect as much information as possible from the community attached to the irrigation district. On the other hand, a physicochemical and microbiological analysis was made to the water to determine if it was acceptable for domestic use, since, not only is it used for economic and agricultural activities, but also for its daily consumption and finally, a series of projects within which are activities of environmental education, water reuse, conservation, preservation, recovery of the water source, reduction of losses and the efficiency and quality in the provision of the service, in order to establish the Program for the Efficient Use and Saving of Water - PUEAA.