Gestión ambiental comunitaria en El Retiro y su incidencia en el servicio de agua potable afectado por el crecimiento poblacional.

Abstract

El Retiro Parish was part of the rural parish of El Cambio until 1986 when the residents formed the respective directive of the parish committee on April 27, 1988, this parish has extensive banana activity, as well as several problems community. El Retiro currently has a population of approximately 4596 inhabitants, its political division consists mainly of the parochial head and 11 sites. Within the study area there are problems with the community regarding water service, since this resource is one of the main ones either for domestic use or for irrigation. For this reason, the present research work was proposed in such a way that the community and the competent authorities are integrated in the face of the situation that is arising, therefore, the main objective is to design a community management training plan through of the socio-environmental diagnosis in the distribution of drinking water in the El Retiro parish, in order to propose training on participatory community methodologies and tools to local actors. The methodology used has a qualitative approach, since techniques such as the interview are applied, an importance matrix was used where the negative impacts can be identified and also propose the respective corrective measures.