Diagnosis of the watershed Rio Fuerte in the matters of environmental sanitation

Abstract

Following the problem of the bad water quality of important touristic areas of the country diffused en the media at early 2003, the Federal Government, through the Office of Public Policies of the Presidency of the Republic, established the program “Playas Limpias” (Clean beaches). With the purpose of integrating this sheme to representatives of the municipal and state governments, as well as the tourist service sectors and the users of the national waters, it was promoted by the National Commission of Water (CONAGUA) and in the Councils of Cuenca, the installation of local committees in the beaches of the biggest tourist influx, they have the purpose of protecting the health of the bathers, to improve the environmental quality of the national beaches and to rise the levels of international competitiveness; by executing some actions. To make the water management program of the beaches of the municipality of Ahome, firstly there is a diagnosis in the topic of sanitation of the “Cuenca Pacífico Norte” for the execution of said preventive and corrective actions. The Committee of Playas Limpias in the Municipality of Ahome is a subsidiary body with the objective of protecting the health of the users, improve the environmental quality of the beaches of Sinaloa and Mexico and to rise the levels of competitiveness of the touristic destinations through the realization of coordinated actions of the three orders of government and the private, social and academic sectors.