Influye el uso del suelo en la percepción de la calidad del agua de las microcuencas, caso de estudio de la ciudad de Loja.

Abstract

Abstract: The environmental problem regarding the quality of the water of the streams is very marked in the city of Loja, the perception of the people about the water quality of the micro-basins is crucial to improve the conservation strategies of the micro-basins of the city. For this reason, in the present work a comparison should be made between the perception and characteristics of water quality in the criteria of odor, color, turbidity and quality of the sub- catchments of the city of Loja, with physicochemical and chemical data of the water in these same basins; as well as with the type of land use (forest, forest-pasture, pasture and urban).The results indicate that the physical-chemical and biological parameters that are related to the perception of conductivity, total dissolved solids, turbidity and EPT. It also shows how in the forest area the perception of water quality is very good, in forest-pasture in the media, in the pastureland area it is bad and in the urban park the perception is very bad.