Hoja de ruta metodológica para el desarrollo de monitoreo comunario de microcuencas. Caso de estudio: Río Frío.

Abstract

This document describes in a general way relevant aspect for the establishment of community monitoring in a hydrographic basin, establishing the importance of actively including the main actors related to the water system to empower the territories and ecosystems to the sustainability. This work contemplates a review of community monitoring models applied to hydrographic basins in a national and international level with the objective of identify fundamental elements to find out the route or steps to develop a community monitoring in micro-basins, taking the Frio River as a reference. The route starts setting a team by the community that lives in the area of direct influence of the micro-basin and other interested parties such as environmental authorities, public service operators (aqueduct and sewerage), academic community (experts), and environmental organizations, who will be in charge of constructing the ecosystem context, identifying problems, planning and executing the monitoring and managing the knowledge acquired to achieve sanitation and sustainability of the resource.