A paper presented by Mario Pérez, Stef Smits, Alberto Benavides and Silena Vargas on 21-23 January 2003, Muldersdrift, South Africa.

Although Colombia is rich in water resources, scarcity increasingly affects water supply in various regions of the country. This is mainly a scarcity of adequate water quality. This is also the situation in the
Department of the Valle del Cauca. The environmental authority of this Department (CVC) has contracted Cinara to contribute to resolving water use problems in a specific micro-catchment and at the same time to develop methodologies that allow the replication of the work in other areas under jurisdiction of the CVC. The area selected for this project is the ‘Ambichinte’ micro-catchment located on the western slopes of the Andes, in the Municipality of Dagua. [authors abstract]