Evaluación de la huella hídrica de la microcuenca del Río Chimborazo en el fortalecimiento de su gestión y política comunitaria.

Abstract

The main objective of the present titration work was to evaluate the water footprint of the micro-basin, of the Chimborazo River for the strengthening of its management and community policy. The evaluation was quantified by means of three indicators, starting from the methodological guide for the evaluation of the water footprint in a hydrographic basin, from a transversal approach, the information gathering was validated in the months of March and April. It was obtained: a gray water footprint of 102831.2 m3, being the main contributors in general the industrial and domestic sector. Based on the scarcity indexes, a value of 0.24 was obtained for the Green shortage index, 0.4 for the Blue shortage index, and 0.01 for the Gray shortage index, these values being less than one. This allows us to determine that the microbasin of the Chimborazo River (MRCH) shows sustainability at the present time, for consumption, availability and presents great purification capacity. 17 strategies are proposed, of which 6 are for the agricultural sector, 6 for the industrial sector, 3 for the domestic sector, 2 for the energy sector, allowing alternatives for the use of water resources in protection, prevention, conservation and sustainability actions of the micro-basin.