MANAGEMENT OF URBAN WATER CYCLE INTHE TOWN OF CRESPO (ENTRE RIOS, ARGENTINA): CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT ANO INNOVATION

Abstract

Described and analysed here are the components identified in the construction of a "support for decision making'' for the strengthening of local politics centred on urban water and sanitation.

These components are: a) Formation of the necessary human resources, b) Contents and instruments for the collection of information, c) Storing of information, d) Cartographic visualisation of information, e) Academic links to networks on this issue and initiatives on technological transference. The objective of the articleis the presentation of these components synthetically, taking the innovative in the provincial scientific technological system and putting it to use in a determined municipality. Taken together, these sustainability-related objectives for the urban water cycle have been studied and exemplified taking as a reference the City of Crespo in the Province of Entre Ríos in Argentina.