Informe Final de Actividades Realizadas en el Semillero de Investigación en Recursos Hídricos SHWR (Seedbed In Hydrology And Water Resources Management) de la Universidad Santo Tomas Seccional Tunja

Abstract

This report is the synthesis of the activities carried out in the SHWR (Seedbed in Hydrology and Water Resources Management) research seedbed of the Santo Tomas Tunja sectional University, where the methodologies for the evaluation of 18 water management indicators were designed and analysis in reference to the governance of water in rural basins (Indicators belonging to the GWI index devised by Carlos Caro, PhD in 2019. Research on good practices and experiences worldwide is the starting point for evaluation in terms of governance and the water market, although, this must go hand in hand with the application of government policies with the care and importance of water resource management, without neglecting the procedures, practices and laws that are exercised in Colombia around water resources. In this way, the 18 indicators were identified, grouped and classified according to their natural Theoretical and practical methodologies were established and defined to obtain the rural watershed management index (GWI), in order to calculate it experimentally for the case study in the municipality of Motavita, located in the department of Boyacá, evidencing In general, the municipality presents unsustainable characteristics, but has elements for its continuous improvement in the short and medium term The project is titled specific follow-up methodologies in the calculation of the GWI index for water governance in rural basins, from which I provided assistance to the project, with the main author, Civil Engineer Juan Diego Hernández Torres and as project director the PhD. MSc. Carlos Andrés Caro Camargo, creator of the GWI index.