Estrategias didácticas para la conservación y protección de la microcuenca El Burro: Un enfoque participativo

Abstract

Access to good quality water service is one of the main problems faced by rural communities in Colombia and, among other reasons, is due to low educational levels and an environmental policy that does not reach the territories or, on the contrary, it has little applicability in those contexts. In the case of the El Burro micro-basin (Victoria, Caldas), the aqueduct is managed by a Local Administrative Board and does not have the minimum requirements for its operation, it does not even have a water concession. Given this scenario and due to the decrease in environmental flow by 80%, the objective of this research is to promote environmental habits through a didactic strategy that leads to forms of sustainable use for this resource. For this, a qualitative and exploratory research was proposed, which is based on the principles of participatory action research. In the investigation, the 152 users who are registered in the association statutes of the aqueduct were taken as the population under study. Likewise, for the development of the work, several instruments were taken into account for the collection and analysis of data. Initially, a diagnostic survey was carried out in which the actors that are part of the micro-basin and their perspectives on water resources were recognized. For the population in question, a sample was calculated that corresponded to 44 surveys, which were carried out in the different sectors that make up the micro-basin.