Methodology for the development of technological and innovation capabilities for a municipal domestic water treatment plant start-up. Case Tibasosa, Boyacá.

Abstract

Globally, there is a need to guarantee the sustainability and quality of the water resource, understanding that its management derives from the hydrological cycle that links a chain of interrelationships between different natural and anthropic components, so it is associated as an intertemporal learning process of human beings. Most countries give the highest priority to water supply, given that it is one of the basic human needs, however, according to UNESCO in the 2019 world report on water resources development, a third of the world's population does not have access to safely managed drinking water. This is the case of several communities in the department of Boyacá, Colombia and in particular of the rural communities of Tibasosa municipality, where despite having two main water tributaries such as the source "La mana del padre", and "El rio Chicamocha”, which can meet the need for water; the supply source is concentrated in the Chicamocha river, whose availability and quality of water resources is deficient as it is one of the most polluted rivers in Colombia. The object of study is the identification of the capabilities that a community must have when its purpose is the start-up of a domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant (PTAR), for which an investigation was carried out in terms of important characteristics such as technical and human training, innovation and technological development, social and labor organization, quality planning and management, systematization - research and political and social impact. Subsequently, the approach of a methodology for the management and coordinated development of these capabilities was carried out, with the purpose of managing water in interaction with other natural resources, and striving to maximize the resulting social and economic wealth, in the rural area of Tibasosa, Boyacá.