Methodological roadmap for the development of communal monitoring of microbasins. Case study: Río Frío

Abstract

This document generally describes relevant aspects for the establishment of community monitoring in a river basin, establishing the importance of actively including the main actors related to the water system in order to make territories and ecosystems sustainable. This work contemplates a review of community monitoring models applied to hydrographic basins at the national and international level with the objective of identifying the fundamental elements for the establishment of the route or steps for the development of community monitoring in micro-basins, taking Rio Frío as a reference. The established route starts from the formation of a team led by the community that lives in the area of direct influence of the micro-basin and other interested parties such as environmental authorities, public service operators (aqueduct and sewerage), academic community (experts), and environmental organizations, who will be in charge of building the ecosystem context, identifying problems, planning and executing monitoring and managing the knowledge acquired to achieve sanitation and sustainability of the resource.