Need of criteria uniqueness in the water resource administration

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation is to show the different criteria of the entities that regulate the use of public water in Colombia. The right to use public water is established in National Laws, the procedures, permissions and concessions of its benefit is given by law to the environmental entities, composed by twenty-six regional environment authorities (Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales, CARs, in Spanish), seven Sustainable Development Authorities (Corporaciones para el Desarrollo Sostenible, in Spanish), the Special Administrative Unit of the National Park System that depends and is under the leadership of the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development and in the case of cities with more than 1,000,000 the city secretaries, under the presumption that his entities have the same criteria towards the terminology and the established procedures in Colombia. This investigation elaborated with the collaboration of the students from the Sewerage Area of the Sanitary and Environment Engineer Program from La Salle University, intends to establish the main causes of the different criteria of the regulatory entities based on the misinterpretations of the terminology, and procedures, allowing the waste of the most precious resource