Parámetros para la Formulación de una Política Pública de Saneamiento Hídrico del Río Bogotá con un Enfoque de Gobernanza Participativa: Involucrando a Actores Clave en la Toma de Decisiones

Abstract

The Bogotá River is one of the most significant water sources in Colombia, but also one of the most polluted in the country and the world, and this alarming situation is due to the fact that its basin receives overflows from the rivers that surround the city of Bogotá, such as the Torca, Salitre, Fucha and Tunjuelito rivers, as well as the rivers of the 43 surrounding municipalities, including Madrid, Cundinamarca. The lack of knowledge based on the management of solid waste and discharges from the industrial, agricultural and domestic sectors at the source of the Bogotá River causes effects on the public health of the regional population, including the municipality of Madrid, based on the cause of contamination. and damage to the fauna and flora of the territory. Faced with this critical scenario, a group of citizens formulated different actions to stop or mitigate the environmental impact of the waters of the Bogotá River. As a consequence, the Council of State issued ruling 479 of 2014, establishing responsibilities and ordering the representatives involved to adopt measures in the river recovery process. The present investigation seeks to analyze the public policy work that the municipality of Madrid has carried out since this event and therefore it is evident that, although specific actions have been carried out to decontaminate the river and its tributaries, the municipality has not It has a public policy specifically oriented towards this issue and, therefore, a proposal for general guidelines in that regard is presented.