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1) Cape Verde faces chronic water scarcity due to low rainfall and has implemented various water collection and desalination methods.
2) The document proposes establishing wastewater treatment plants in Praia using membrane bioreactor technology to treat and reuse water for irrigation, industry, and other purposes.
3) The treatment plants would help address water scarcity while providing environmental, economic, social and educational benefits to the community.
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1) The Partners for Resilience Partnership is working in 28 vulnerable communities in Madriz Department, Nicaragua to draft integrated management plans for the Inalí and Tapacalí river sub-watersheds.
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3) The management plans being developed are aimed to provide sustainable use of natural resources in the sub-watersheds and improve living standards for the approximately 20,000 inhabitants.
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Ilkogretim Online - Elementary Education Online, 2021; Vol 20 (Issue 6): pp.
1258-1267 http://ilkogretim-online.org
doi: 10.17051/ilkonline.2021.06.132
Teaching The Community, The Efficient Use And Saving Of
Water In The Municipality
Miguel A. Ávila A., Engineering Faculty, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas,
Bogotá, Colombia
German Torrijos C.,Engineering Faculty, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas,
Bogotá, Colombia
Jaime A. Benítez F., Engineering Faculty, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas,
Bogotá, Colombia
ABSTRACT.
In the development of this article, the methodological implications that in theory respect
the principle of efficient use and saving of water are questioned. Based on legal conside-
rations and theoretical principles such as Law 373 of 1996, the policies of the Ministry of
Environment and Sustainable Development and the guidelines issued by the Guavio Re-
gional Autonomous Corporation (CORPOGUAVIO); The purpose of this is to find out
what actions should be used in the municipality to raise awareness among the popula-
tion about the importance of water resources for life, the human responsibility to take
care of them, and the magnitude of the current problem of inappropriate use and waste
of water. Reforestation campaigns are carried out in the areas surrounding the Chinan-
cocha stream, which is the main source of water supply in the municipality for the urban
aqueduct; installation of macro meters and valves that allow continuous monitoring of
water flow in the aqueduct infrastructure, mitigating the possibility of leaks; implemen-
tation of rates for the aqueduct and sewage service with the main purpose of raising
user awareness.
Keywords: Water, Watch out, Reforestation
I. INTRODUCTION
The municipality of Junín- Cundinamarca, through the public services office, formulates
the program of efficient use and saving of water for the urban aqueduct, framed within
Law 373 of 1996, the policies of the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Deve-
lopment and the guidelines issued by the CORPOGUAVIO corporation.
In accordance with these guidelines, the municipality's mayor's office proposes that the
academy, and for this purpose the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, help
guide the educational talks that will allow its inhabitants to access the necessary instruc-
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tion to understand in an adequate and practical way the efficient use and saving of water
resources.
This project is intended to involve one thousand (1000) inhabitants of the area, invol-
ving the great majority of sectors present in the daily activities of the municipality, in-
cluding the student population, to which the greatest training efforts are directed.
It is believed that it is the population that can best contribute to the transmission of
knowledge in the area.According to the formulation presented, the project seeks to raise
community awareness about the culture of saving, efficient use and conservation of wa-
ter resources. In addition to guiding the activities necessary for the protection of the mi-
cro basin of the Chinagocha stream, the main source of water supply for the municipali-
ty's urban aqueduct.
The proposal makes it possible to establish programs and mechanisms that improve the
reduction of water losses in all phases of the aqueduct system. Situations that allow in
the best way to maintain a sustainable development, understood as the one that leads to an
economic growth and elevation of quality of life and social welfare without exhaus- ting
the base of renewable natural resources. The development of the activities carried out on
the population are related to the introduction of the "program for efficient use and
saving of water" known as the PUEAA.
This involves a set of actions to be developed and adopted by the entities in charge of
water supply, sewerage, irrigation, drainage and hydroelectric production services and
other users of water resources.
II. STUDY AREA
The municipality of Junín was founded on August 13, 1550, is located southeast of the
department of Cundinamarca in the eastern mountain range, 103 km from Bogotá, is
part ofthe province ofGuavio in conjunction withthe municipalities ofGacheta, Gachalá,
Gama and Ubalá; its municipal seat is located at the coordinates 4°47'45" north latitude
and 73°38'20" west longitude, at an altitude above sea level of 2. Its limits are: to the
north with Gacheta and Guatavita, to the east with Gama and Gachalá, to the south with
Fomeque, and to the west with La Calera and Guasca.It has an area of 34022 hectares; its
main sources of production are: Agriculture, dual-purpose livestock, tourism and the
generation of handicrafts; it does not have air and fluvial communication routes, and the
terrestrial ones are:
Junìn-Guasca-Bogotá
Junìn-Gachetá
Junìn-Gama
Junìn-San Francisco-Sueva-Guasca
Junìn-Claraval-Chuscales.
The relief in the municipality of Junín is mountainous; the highest part corresponds to
reliefs of glacial origin with landscapes of steep ridges and spines. The territory has me-
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dium, cold and paramo thermal floors, with a share of 5.3%, 62.5% and 32.2%, respecti-
vely, of the total area of the territory.
There are rivers such as: Guavio, Chorreras, Santa Barbara, Rucio and Negro and in addi-
tion to these there are smaller streams such as lagoons, represented by: La Bolsa, Lagu-
na Negra, Laguna Colorada, Lagunas de Gacheta, as well as streams such as: la chinago-
cha, La quebrada de los Muertos, chorrera among others that feed the basins of the Gua-
vio and Santa Barbara rivers, Regarding its political-administrative division, the terri-
tory has 24 villages and three inspections.
Table 1. Political-administrative division. Source: Esquema de Ordenamiento Territorial
Junín, 2001.
According to the document of the Municipal Development Plan of the territory for the
years 2008-2011, the population of the municipality is estimated at 8115 inhabitants.
Table 2. Total population of the municipality of Junín by age and sex for the year 2007.
Source: Junín Municipal Development Plan 2008-2011
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The rural population is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Population by villages. Source: Junín Municipal Development Plan 2008-2011.
From this information, it can be concluded that the highest concentration of population
in the municipality is observed in the village of San Francisco with 974 inhabitants,
which represents 12% of the total population of the territory, followed by the village of
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Santa Barbara with 790 inhabitants representing 9.73%, and finally 667 inhabitants in
the urban area and the village of El Valle representing 8.22% each.Regarding the popula-
tion data of the municipality and according to the information provided by the DANE, we
have:
Figure 2.Number of persons per household. Source: DANE Bulletin, 2005.
From the above illustration it can be concluded that on average the number of people
per household in the municipality is 3-4.
Figure 3.Population by sex. Source: DANE Bulletin, 2005.
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In the municipality of Junín, 49.2% of the total population is male and 50.8% is female. It
is important for the applicability of the process of activities to generate awareness of
water care; to know the degree of education to which the population has access, in order
to implement activities to ensure the understanding of society.
Figure 4. Educational level. Source: DANE Bulletin, 2005.
The above illustration shows that 60.5% of the population has primary education, 19.9%
has secondary education, 0.8% has professional education and 0.7% of the population
has completed specialized and related studies. By knowing the territory in which we will
act, the activities carried out in this territory become more effective and efficient, thus
achieving a common goal.
III. REGULATIONS
The municipality has a hydrographic network composed of a network of rivers and
streams, which is part of the Guavio river basin, the basin includes 12 municipalities, in-
cluding the municipality of Junín, in the jurisdiction of CORPOGUAVIO.
Law 373 of 1997, Establishes the program for the efficient use and saving of water. De-
crees that environmental and municipal plans must incorporate a PUEAA that integrates
projects and actions to be adopted by the entities responsible for the provision of water
supply, sewerage, irrigation and drainage services and the users of water resources, and
that must be based on the diagnosis of the water supply of the supply sources; the co-
rresponding environmental authorities are responsible for approving the implementati-
on and execution of such programs.
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Regarding the preparation and presentation of the programs, Article 3 establishes that
the service providers must submit the PUEAA to the environmental authorities and the
latter will prepare a summary to be submitted to the Ministry of the Environment. Arti-
cle 4 deals with the reduction of losses in each aqueduct system, where the Comisión de
Regulación de Agua Potable y Saneamiento Básico will set the annual goals, and the en-
vironmental authorities for the users in the area of its jurisdiction.
It is also established that in any activity that generates liquid effluents, water must be
reused in primary and secondary activities. Articles 7 and 8 deal with basic and maxi-
mum consumptions and tariff incentives, where the environmental authorities must de-
fine the mechanisms to encourage the efficient use and saving of water and discourage
the inefficient use of the resource. Projects that include water consumption must include
in the study of supply sources the supply of rainwater; hydrogeological studies will be
carried out by the environmental authorities.
The law indicates that there must be educational campaigns for users and teaching pro-
grams that include topics related to the rational and efficient use of water, the imple -
mentation of low water consumption technology and the gradual replacement of high
consumption equipment.In addition, the program indicates that special management
zones, such as moorlands, cloud forests, areas of influence of aquifer springs and fluvial
stars must be acquired by the environmental entities in order to initiate the recovery,
protection and conservation processes. Finally, the environmental entities w ithin each
of their jurisdictions must apply the corresponding sanctions to service providers and
users whowaste water.
Decree 1956 of 2015, makes a series of clarifications to Decree 1076 of 2015 through
whichthe Sole RegulatoryDecree ofthe Environment and Sustainable Development Sec-
tor is issued. Regarding the water resource, in Article 7 it establishes the minimum as-
pects of the management of the Resource in the chapter of use and exploitation of water;
in Article 8 of the procedure of the Plan of Reconversion to Clean Technologies in
Discharge Management it states that those who are holders of discharge permits may
opt for the execution of the plan of Reconversion to Clean Technologies in Discharge
Management and in such case, the plan must be submitted to the competent environ-
mental authority within the first year of the term.
IV. PROBLEM FORMULATION
One of the most important resources for life on the Planet is water, it is the main source
of development of life forms; water is essential for the survival of all living beings and
based on this fact, humanity as a rational being must ensure the care and conservation of
this resource, not only to guarantee the survival of its species but also to take care of all
existing species and thus guarantee an environmental stability that allows life on Planet
Earth. At present, the ways in which human beings throughout history have unbalanced
the environment in which they live, and have used and misused resources without gua-
ranteeing their sustainability, are very evident. It is evident the environmental problems
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that we are living today where there are several causes of environmental imbalance and
pollution, nature has shown through natural disasters how we have modified it and how
its sustainability has been put at risk by the use of pollutants that only humans use for
their industries and technological development.
One of the main and most important imbalances presented is water contamination, the
waste of water and the bad use of its sources; it is important to highlight the global pro-
blem where inhabitants of a population are forced to consume contaminated water, this
is one of the items that should be worked mainly. In the territory of the municipality of
Junín there are also points of water contamination, for this reason it is necessary the
prompt action of public entities and the population to mitigate these environmental
risks. It is important to emphasize the participation of the population in order to achieve
a mutual goal; the entities as such can act and generate water saving projects, but if the
population does not become aware of the proper use of the resource, there will be no
positive changes in water quality in the municipality.In this process, the Universidad
Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, acts as an entity of population awareness, generating
training in environmental education to achieve social awareness, but most importantly
to ensure a sustainable and sustainable use of water resources in the municipality.
V. METHODOLOGY
To solve this problem, the municipality of Junín, through the Public Services Office, for-
mulates the Program for Efficient Use and Saving of Water (PUEAA), which contains a
set of projects and actions to be developed and adopted by the entities responsible for
the provision of water supply, sewerage, irrigation and drainage services, hydroelectric
production and other users of water resources, in this case aimed directly at the Urban
Aqueduct. For the formulation of the PUEAA, programs and projects aimed at saving and
efficient use of water resources are being developed. There are 7 programs proposed to
be implemented. Each of them describes the type of measure it represents, the impacts
to be controlled, the scope of the program and the activities to be carried out.
➢ Program 1:
"Reforestation of the areas surrounding the Chinagocha stream, supply source of the ur-
ban aqueduct of the municipality of Junín."
Type of measure: Prevention, mitigation and control.
Impacts to be controlled:
- Gradual decrease of the water resource at the source and downstream due to increased
evaporation.
- Deterioration of the ecological flow.
- Deterioration of the existing treatment systems in the urban aqueduct's drinking water
treatment plant.
Scope: 15 hectares will be reforested during the five years of PUEAA implementation in
the areas surrounding the Chinagocha Creek; 16,500 species of native vegetation will be
planted; 3 hectares will be reforested per year.
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➢ Program 2:
"Installation and revision of macro meters and valves."
Type of measure: Mitigation and control.
Impacts to be controlled: Regulation of water flows in the aqueduct infrastructure.
➢ Program 3:
"Review and monitoring of the operation of micro- meters and detection of water leaks
in the distribution system.".
Type of measure: Monitoring and control.
Impacts to be controlled: Water losses in the distribution network due to malfunctioning
of metering equipment (micro-meters): due to fraudulent connections and water leaks
that are difficult to detect.
➢ Program 4:
"Implementation of the tariff study for aqueduct and sewerage services."
Type of measure: Control.
Impacts to be controlled:
- Waste of water at the end user.
- Improve the financial efficiency of the Public Utilities Office.
➢ Program 5.
"Acquisition and installation of water-saving devices for the buildings of the official enti-
ties of the municipality."
Type of measure: Implementation.
Impacts to be controlled: High water consumption by official users.
➢ Program 6.
"Environmental education for the community of the municipality of Junín."
Type of measure: Environmental education and awareness.
Impacts to be controlled:
- High water consumption by subscribers in the urban area.
- Pollution in the municipality's water sources.
➢ Program 7.
"Training in environmental education, management of PTAP and labor competencies to
urban aqueduct operators."
Type of measure: Environmental education and training.
Impacts to be controlled:
- Water losses in the entire structure of the urban aqueduct system.
- Deficiency in the quality of water supplied to the population.
VI. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
It is a description of the results achieved in the tests, with details of the conditions under
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which the tests were performed. The analysis of such results is also included, although
this can also be documented in a new section.
In Colombia, there are many municipalities with a lot of water potential, which has to be
conserved for future generations, so it is necessary to make a pedagogy of environmen-
tal conservation, the conservation of watersheds and the best use of this resource among
the population of the territory adjacent to these water sources.
It is the duty of the government to work with the community for the better management
of water resources in these times, where climate change significantly affects all areas of
the country and the plant.
It is important to raise awareness in the student population, to begin to change the situa-
tional awareness from the youngest, so that they become primary agents that favor the
change of perception regarding the conservation of water sources.
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