Sustainable development with green economy in the Río Fucha basin

Abstract

The Fucha river through the city of Bogotá in the
department of Cundinamarca, which originates in the
El Delirio forest reserve in the Cruz Verde moor and
empties into the Bogotá river. In its first two kilometers
the channel does not It is contaminated, the rest has a
regular and poor state of conservation, since for decades
it has been used as a sewer receiving waste and sewage.
The challenge of the intervention for the recovery of
the Fucha river was to give it a reinterpretation of the
interaction between people and the environment as a
public space, integrating diverse informal recyclers into
formal solid waste management systems presenting
a series of challenges and opportunities when carried
out successfully, bearing in mind that their work can
improve performance of the system and environmental
sustainability while maintaining and even progressing
in the development of living conditions p For the people
around him and the informal recyclers, it also helps to
implement job opportunities for the recyclers, there are
different methods to implement different activities which
link the different elements of society.