Programación del riego y distribución equitativa del agua en la agricultura de la comunidad Azama –Unorinca, parroquia San Luis, cantón Otavalo

Abstract

This development project is focused on the sustainable function of water and soil to achieve efficiency in the use and exploitation of water resources. Through the methodological description, it is proposed to create an irrigation study that handles two concepts. The first is the establishment of irrigation programming by user, according to the user register and cadastre; and the second, hydraulic management, which represents a technical, comprehensive and sustainable way of achieving equitable distribution of water for irrigation. Numerous irrigation systems in the country have been built without establishing adequate mechanisms for sharing and distributing water; Thus, several irrigation projects have monoflows, that is, all the flow available in the irrigation system in a few hours, in turn. These amounts of water cause soil erosion and do not allow the development of irrigation technology. Additionally, it generates social problems in the irrigators. This thesis establishes a practical case in which all the technical, social, productive, economic and environmental criteria are visualized for the development of an irrigation study that promotes irrigation programming with shifts and adequate hydraulic distributions to satisfy the water needs of the crops and the equitable distribution of water in irrigation systems. After socializing the results of this project, we have realized that irrigation organizations seek this type of initiative to achieve adequate administration, operation and maintenance of irrigation systems, and that from a technical point of view it is necessary to visualize these concepts.