Incidencia de los mecanismos de gobernanza del agua sobre la cuenca del rio Guatiquia que abastece el acueducto de Villavicencio

Abstract

The Guatiquia River basin has a great water wealth born of the Chingaza moor in the municipality of Quetame and belongs to the great basin of the Orinoco River, manages to supply the capital of Colombia the city of Bogota with a value greater than 80% of its daily demand for drinking water, the rest of its water capacity is directed towards the south of the country down the eastern mountain range by the Guatiquia canyon with a higher altitude of 3. 600 m.a.s.l. until it reaches 300 m.a.s.l. Its water quality is very good because it has no tributaries discharging wastewater in a critical state or with high pollutant loads. This basin provides great ecosystemic services to the municipalities it belongs to, providing them with catchment sources for municipal aqueducts, The capital of Meta is not far behind since the Villavicencio Aqueduct and Sewerage Company (EAAV) of the city has three drinking water concessions on the basin, the one with the largest flow and importance is the concession of the intake of Quebrada la Honda with a value of 1,600 L/s. It achieves the supply of water for the municipal aqueducts. 600 L/s, it achieves the supply of drinking water to the company (EAAV) provides the largest water supply to the city but due to issues of poor water governance there is a crisis in the city, because its construction site the intake is in a critical point of risk and in times of high rainfall is evident the damage suffered by its infrastructure, what this generates every year repeatedly is that by major forces of nature due to natural disasters the pipe of the intake is damaged to the point of causing avalanches achieving the burial of this. With different mechanisms of citizen participation, an improvement in the water services provided by (EAAV) would be achieved, but unfortunately the people of the city of the capital of Meta are not interested in participating in citizen oversight in order to ensure transparency in the planning instruments such as the POMCA, which carries out the planning and management of the basin in a participatory manner seeking to establish consensus in the environmental zoning in order to protect and seek the conservation and sustainable use of the natural resources that are within this watershed.