Evaluación de los efectos antrópicos en los parámetros de calidad del agua del valle de Samacá, Boyacá

Abstract

Water resources are of vital importance to living things in their metabolic processes, physical development and survival. In addition, human beings thanks to water have been able to carry out a variety of productive activities that bring development to communities; although in turn it entails anthropic effects such as waste and dumping composed of various pollutants. For this reason, there is a need to evaluate the way in which these processes are developed and the implications for the quality and quantity of available drinking water. For this project, it is proposed to carry out a study of the quality of water in surface tributaries of the municipality of Samacá – Boyacá, evaluating the anthropic effects derived from different productive activities that take place in the place and subsequently propose possible solutions to these affectations. To achieve this, a characterization of the study area was carried out through the collection of information from bibliographic sources, field visits to identify anthropic activities (mining, agriculture) that take place there and establish sampling points. Subsequently, an evaluation of water quality indices (ICA and IRCA) was carried out with the data taken in the field, where it could be concluded that the waters of the tributaries studied are at high risk of contamination; for this reason, low-cost biological solutions were proposed for water remediation using artificial wetlands, aquatic plants and food peels such as oranges among others for easy implementation. It is recommended to carry out sampling and analysis of water quality constantly and even more so after developing some proposed methodology.