Organización y calidad del agua de consumo humano y salud, sistema de Agua Tarqui - La Victoria del Portete, Cuenca 2010

Abstract

A study combined: 1) qualitative ethnographic about the role organizational and community management of water and 2) crosssectional prevalence, with investigation of frequency and distribution by age and sex of the most common diseases transmitted by water, based on the analysis of 390 surveys and data users Tarqui SCS. Water quality, physical-chemical and microbiological analysis was performed by 2 laboratories with 3 samples taken from: source, reservoir and address.- Results: According to users: The water board is a group of second grade (51.28%), performing management is inadequate (54.87%), water is not potable (92.53%), according to the analysis is inadequate for human consumption and poor water quality associated with gastrointestinal disease (93.59%), which according to statistics from SCS is between the second leading cause of morbidity and affects more children.- Conclusions: accessibility and continuity of service is inadequate water, poor water quality exists, which is associated by users with gastrointestinal disease, more common in children, the analysis performed by laboratories determined that the water is unfit for consumption human.