Sistematización y análisis de la calidad de agua del tramo A del estero salado y su interrelación con el desarrollo urbano. ¿Mejora o deterioro?.

Abstract

The Estero Salado, being a water reference for the city of Guayaquil, suffers from the contamination of its waters due to the uncontrolled growth of the city over the years, lack of due control of industrial and domestic discharges that are evacuated without prior treatment, and lack of environmental education for the population who are used to dumping waste into the Estero, among others. For this, systematization of the projects executed between the years 2000 to 2017 and of water quality monitoring in the years 2015 - 2021 was carried out, to know the strategies for the landscape and environmental recovery of the Estero Salado. In the present work, the degree of water contamination in the “Section A” of the Estero Salado de Guayaquil was determined, using the Water Quality Index (ICA) according to the method of the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF). This process was carried out based on the water quality analysis collected from the titling project “Comparative Analysis of the Water Quality of Ramales A, B, Puerto Lisa and Las Ranas del Estero Salado of Guayaquil´s city, using Quality Indices Environmental” in the period 2010 - 2016 and of the monitoring requested by EMAPAG, corresponding to the period 2015 -2021. With the analyzes, a comparison was made with the TULSMA environmental regulations and the ICAs were modeled on maps, where the variation of the water quality of the Estero Salado can be observed.