Diseño y recolección de aguas lluvias para uso agrícola de una vivienda rural del Municipio de Toledo, Norte de Santander.

Abstract

The availability of water resources has decreased over time, due to the alteration of the ecosystems that regulate the water supply and intrusion into fresh water sources, making them unfit given the high degree of contamination, mainly due to anthropic factors. This is why implementing alterna-tive use technologies for different resources are to a certain extent part of the solution to the prob-lem of water supply. In this context, the project presents a rainwater collection system for the agricultural sector in the rural area of the municipality of Toledo, Norte de Santander. To do this, a pluviometer type rain gauge was installed to establish a relationship between the rainfall in the project area, the data available at the neighboring IDEAM stations and other platforms. Rainwater samples were taken during the study period, evaluating the quality of the rainwater and optimal use through physico-chemical and microbiological analyzes obtained from the Quality Control and Diagnosis Labora-tory of the University of Pamplona and the current standard. Then, the evapotranspiration reference (ETo), effective precipitation, Crop water requirement (RAC) of strawberry and corn were determined. Later, different methodologies were implemented for the design of a hydraulic network depending on the collection area, taking into account supply, demand, and collection volume. Finally, a Sketchup mockup of the rainwater harvesting design was created.