Evaluación de la calidad de agua de los ríos Socabones y Sarpache ubicados en el Parque Nacional Antisana, provincia de Napo

Abstract

Within the Antisana National Park are the Socabones and Sarpache rivers, they are the tributaries to which the analyzes will be carried out, these are located in the canton of Archidona, and flow into the "La Mica" lagoon of glacial origin. The lagoon is currently dammed, in order to supply drinking water to the south of Quito. For this reason, this titling work was carried out to evaluate the quality of the water in the rivers, in order to determine if the parameters analyzed they comply with the permissible limits established by Book VI Annex I. of the Unified Text of Secondary Legislation of the Ministry of the Environment (TULSMA) Table 3. Field visits were made to define the sampling points for each river, following what is indicated by NTE INEN 2176:2013, which establishes guidelines on the sampling techniques used to obtain the necessary data in quality control analyses. A total of 3 samples were obtained for each river, taking samples from 3 points for each river; For the conservation, transport and handling of the samples, the specifications of NTE INEN 2169:2013 were followed. To determine the quality of the water, laboratory analysis of 6 parameters between physical, chemical and microbiological was carried out, with the values obtained a comparison was made with the Ecuadorian regulations, finally from the results obtained it was concluded that all the parameters analyzed comply with the established by the norm, indicating that the tributaries comply with a good quality.